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spaky

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Registered: 15/07/08

Playing Call of Duty 4 on Satellite P100-434
Posted: 17-Jul-2008 10:06

Hi all,

I have recently purchased my Toshiba Satellite P100-434 (Intel 1.66 Dual / 2GB RAM / Go7600) and have just tried gaming on the system.
I have installed COD4 and tried to play but it seems as the laptop has big issues running it.

I have updated my display drivers to the nvidia vista 32-bit ones downloaded from this site seems to have made very little if no diffrence.

I am running the game with every setting to minimal with res. of 640x480 and it still struggles.
Everything on the laptop should be sufficient for running this game except for the cpu which is recommended a 1.8 dual and this is a 1.66 dual. could just this be why the game cannot run too well?

I wouldnt have thought so.
I have had friends who have run this game on worse spec pc's.

Any suggestions what could be my problem or what else I could do to improve the performance?

Many thanks...

Garrett

Posts: 400
Registered: 30/03/06

Re: Playing Call of Duty 4 on Satellite P100-434
Posted: 17-Jul-2008 10:44

in response to: spaky

Correct

Hi

If got a Satellite notebook with a high performance AMD CPU and the newest ATI Radeon graphic card.
I’m running Windows XP due to better game performance. The Vista needs more hardware resources and therefore I prefer the XP.

Anyway, last week I’ve installed the COD4 and believes me… this game needs more hardware resources as you believe….
Nevertheless you should be able to run the COD4 using the 1024x768 resolution. But it’s another question if COD4 would run smoothly.

However, I found an Toshiba FAQ doc regarding some video 'stutter' during game play using Windows Vista:
Check this:

New video driver and BIOS eliminates video 'stutter' during game play (Windows Vista)

Regarding to this doc the display driver & BIOS update should help to improve the performance.

Bye

spaky

Posts: 4
Registered: 15/07/08

Re: Playing Call of Duty 4 on Satellite P100-434
Posted: 17-Jul-2008 11:57

in response to: Garrett

Hi Garrett,

Yeh I know I prefer XP, which is what i have on my gaming desktop pc. I wont be using this much for gaming but wanted to at least have it for odd occassions and thought it would be able to handle minimum settings.

After your advice I have now flashed the BIOS to 4.30 which i think is one newer than the 4.20 it the thread on your posted link and it has made a bigger difference than I thought it would... it can now handle COD4 on minimal setings at 800x600 (just about).

... silly Vista ...

Thanks for your speedy reply

Regards

Garrett

Posts: 400
Registered: 30/03/06

Re: Playing Call of Duty 4 on Satellite P100-434
Posted: 17-Jul-2008 12:35

in response to: spaky

I’m glad that it helped.

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