Laptop + more ram = What a difference!!

Xaser04

Hmm I had an interesting time with my laptop last night. It was too shabby to begin with (centrino 1.6 / 9700 mobility / 512mb DDR etc) but now I have added another gig of ram every game I throw at it is playable at decent settings.

(Yes I know that adding more ram makes games stutter less etc but I didn't realise it would make this much difference!)

Take BF2 for example, Now I have just sold this game but I thought I would give it one last blast and before with 512mb ram it was unplayable. Now it is playable at high settings with 2x AA and maxed in game AF @ 1024x768.

San Andreas now lets me run AA whereas before if I applied AA it would be doing about 17fps not its up to around 40fps.

The wierd thing is I thought that it was the ati mobility 9700 with only 64mb Vram holding me back but it appears with a bit more ram I can play any game I throw at it.

I am extremely please now

orenda635 · 01-25-2006, 21:03 | posts: 6,867 | Location: GTA, Ontario, Canada

I need to put some more memory in my laptop too. OSX is a huge ram hog.

killer_939 · 01-25-2006, 23:44 | posts: 2,564 | Location: Australia

umm my friend got only 512MB SDRAM n a Cel 1.2GHz with a 9550 and everything is perfectly playable with only 600-700MBs second bandwidth like BF2 any res u want with like no stuter so that is wierd....... meh

Xaser04 · 01-26-2006, 07:02 | posts: 2,866 | Location: Southwest England

It is strange. 512mb is the minimum amount of ram required to play the game yet for me it was unplayable. Oh well

Jonny Manc · 01-26-2006, 20:23 | posts: 2,742 | Location: Cumbria, UK

Thats a nice bit of knowledge for me Xaser, my lappie has a 1.73 Centrino and an X700 for gfx!! Sounds like BF2 might end up on there lol!!

Xaser04 · 01-27-2006, 18:46 | posts: 2,866 | Location: Southwest England

Yep mate, BTW I have posted your game today!

Just make sure you have at least a gig of ram in there and it will run pukka!