Laptop installation comments

bert8for3 · 03-22-07, 12:11 PM

I've seen another thread about a laptop installation, but I thought I'd put this in a separate thread to avoid hijacking. If the mods want to merge or put this anywhere else it's ok with me.
Installed on a widescreen laptop
Pentium M730 1.6Ghz
RAM 1GB DDR2sdram
Vidcard GeForce Go6200 256Meg
Installation was smooth as glass. I was pleasantly surprised as I expected a no-go or problems. For now I just let it do a default install. It defaulted to medium graphics settings and a 1024x768 on 60Hz (this machine can go to 1280x800).
I rebooted before running the game, because I'd seen some remarks here that that's a good idea. Before starting the game, I deliberately didn't shut down any background processes, with the exception of killing Quicktime and Spybot. I wanted to see if/how it would run without tweaking.
Menu load is real fast. And once you click in the office to start the mission, the mission loads very fast compared to SH3, took less than ten seconds for sure.
Anyway with the career/mission up and running, I found the following:
- pretty jerky in harbour in bridge view (I don't have an fps, sorry) to the point where that'll have to be fixed or at least made better hopefully with tweaking ... very bad mouse lag as well
- I headed out of Manila harbour and once out at sea, the jerkiness was definitely less, although not as improved as I'd like. I haven't run into any other traffic or aircraft yet (haven't had time to play more than about 45 minutes), but I suspect things would slow down quite a bit. With that kind of fps I don't consider it really playable at this point. BTW, mouse still lagging pretty badly, mouse does not lag in navmap view.
-T/C is very smooth
-voices are a bit muffled-sounding, maybe can fix in options
-diesels sound tinny ... my audio is decent, so I'm pretty sure it's the game sound itself
-on medium settings, the graphics aren't bad at all, just a bit of a cartoony feel maybe, but I haven't played with settings yet, so I don't mean that as critcism of the game graphics at this point
-exiting the game, I had a low minimum message on Virtual Memory settings, so I'll play with that as well
I think I may get decent playability with some tweaking.

03-22-07, 12:11 PM	#1
bert8for3 Ace of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,124 Downloads: 110 Uploads: 0	Laptop installation comments I've seen another thread about a laptop installation, but I thought I'd put this in a separate thread to avoid hijacking. If the mods want to merge or put this anywhere else it's ok with me. Installed on a widescreen laptop Pentium M730 1.6Ghz RAM 1GB DDR2sdram Vidcard GeForce Go6200 256Meg Installation was smooth as glass. I was pleasantly surprised as I expected a no-go or problems. For now I just let it do a default install. It defaulted to medium graphics settings and a 1024x768 on 60Hz (this machine can go to 1280x800). I rebooted before running the game, because I'd seen some remarks here that that's a good idea. Before starting the game, I deliberately didn't shut down any background processes, with the exception of killing Quicktime and Spybot. I wanted to see if/how it would run without tweaking. Menu load is real fast. And once you click in the office to start the mission, the mission loads very fast compared to SH3, took less than ten seconds for sure. Anyway with the career/mission up and running, I found the following: - pretty jerky in harbour in bridge view (I don't have an fps, sorry) to the point where that'll have to be fixed or at least made better hopefully with tweaking ... very bad mouse lag as well - I headed out of Manila harbour and once out at sea, the jerkiness was definitely less, although not as improved as I'd like. I haven't run into any other traffic or aircraft yet (haven't had time to play more than about 45 minutes), but I suspect things would slow down quite a bit. With that kind of fps I don't consider it really playable at this point. BTW, mouse still lagging pretty badly, mouse does not lag in navmap view. -T/C is very smooth -voices are a bit muffled-sounding, maybe can fix in options -diesels sound tinny ... my audio is decent, so I'm pretty sure it's the game sound itself -on medium settings, the graphics aren't bad at all, just a bit of a cartoony feel maybe, but I haven't played with settings yet, so I don't mean that as critcism of the game graphics at this point -exiting the game, I had a low minimum message on Virtual Memory settings, so I'll play with that as well I think I may get decent playability with some tweaking.