[alistaircampbell]

Hello, my laptop has a GeForce 7600 and I thought it would be great but, it tends to go really jerky at times when playing games. Most notably when I bought fifa 07, I had to play at the lowest graphics???

Any suggestions or review on my laptop its the HP DV9340

Cheers

[mrdaveyk]

whats the rest of your specs mate? i got the 7600 and looking to upgrade it to 8 series, i think my vista has killed it lol, wierd as i bought it as a package but mmeehh

[alistaircampbell]

the rest of the specs. 2gb ram, intel core 2 duo T7200, 160Gb Hard Drive

can you upgrade a laptops graphics card??????

[mrdaveyk]

na i have a desktop mate, thats why im looking to upgrade lol, but what might help ya is...... (this is what i did last night as i got frustrated with this card) download latest drivers for ya processor, latest direct x9 latest geforce patch, half of the guys here will say this is standard stuff but i never thought up manually updating direct x9 or my processor, my computer seems to handles games alot better, smoother, also my graphics car used to stutter, even if i wasn on a iexplorer or media player, it would just stut then carry on, that seems to have gone or reduced.

i downloaded from amd a programe that helps 'sync' my dual core last night aswell, less clutter apparently i dont know, but yeh update everything you can perhaps :)

[smakk]

I have a 7600 gt, and it runs ok. I get random fps drop in Counter Strike 1.6 to like 60s, i ussualy have 100 fps. Can someone help me fix this problem, if it can be fixed.

[mastaof420]

try turning off the vertical sync in ur video card settings
it should say on/application controlled/off
set it to off and most games will benefit from it
expecially counterstrike
my card is only a geforce 5700LE 128mb
and i get a perfect 100fps in counterstrike

[Carbon]

Originally Posted by mastaof420 try turning off the vertical sync in ur video card settings it should say on/application controlled/off set it to off and most games will benefit from it expecially counterstrike my card is only a geforce 5700LE 128mb and i get a perfect 100fps in counterstrike

There's a reason v-sync exists and that is

1. because the human eye cannot perceive changes in FPS over 60
2. because pumping out frames over 60fps on a 60hz monitor leads to tearing as the monitor cannot keep up with the graphics card.

V-Sync should almost always be on. Turning it off wastes GPU power. 60FPS is the maximum needed.