SHIII for the Notebook Gamer

Mowinz · 01-15-07, 09:00 PM

My rig handles SH3 ok but I cant go near high graphic setting because it bogs down. It does run pretty good at the High Performance setting in the basic ATI CCC. My hard drive runs at 4200 rpm which is probably slowing it all down.

I bought the Gateway Notebook with 512 RAM and added another 1024 of PNY DDR. Honestly, I haven't noticed that great of a deal of performance boost with the new memory and YES I am disappointed.

I still have to find a way to tweak it better. Got my running processes down to about 30 and ditched most of the crap.

One thing the Net is missing is an XP guide for gamers which includes everything needed to tune up a PC for game performance. Unbelievable. I've read tweakguide and some others but too bad there isn't one stop shop for all gaming tweaks for windows XP.

Since my rig isn't running at full capacity with some loose nuts I'm going to install GWX anyway and see what happens. I played the game earlier and it crashed on me. I know setting for no page file is not recommended but I read some where if you have plenty of RAM give it a try. I did and SH3 crashed on me. Go figure.

Thanks and cheers

01-15-07, 09:00 PM	#8
Mowinz Gunner Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 100 Downloads: 123 Uploads: 0	Thanks all for the welcome. My rig handles SH3 ok but I cant go near high graphic setting because it bogs down. It does run pretty good at the High Performance setting in the basic ATI CCC. My hard drive runs at 4200 rpm which is probably slowing it all down. I bought the Gateway Notebook with 512 RAM and added another 1024 of PNY DDR. Honestly, I haven't noticed that great of a deal of performance boost with the new memory and YES I am disappointed. I still have to find a way to tweak it better. Got my running processes down to about 30 and ditched most of the crap. One thing the Net is missing is an XP guide for gamers which includes everything needed to tune up a PC for game performance. Unbelievable. I've read tweakguide and some others but too bad there isn't one stop shop for all gaming tweaks for windows XP. Since my rig isn't running at full capacity with some loose nuts I'm going to install GWX anyway and see what happens. I played the game earlier and it crashed on me. I know setting for no page file is not recommended but I read some where if you have plenty of RAM give it a try. I did and SH3 crashed on me. Go figure. Thanks and cheers