Bad Nvidia GeForce Go problem with Torque3D
by Nmuta Jones · in Torque 3D Professional · 01/30/2010 (10:41 am) · 44 replies
I'm having a very bad problem on a notebook with GeForce Go 7150m trying to run Torque3D 1.0.1
Even the EMPTY template is very, very slow.... probably about 7 fps. Very choppy.
I just updated the drivers. No change.
system specs
2008 HP Pavillion laptop (dv6000 model) . its only 2 years old.
2 Gigs DDR2 RAM
Nvidia GeForce Go 7150m with 793 MB shared video memory available
Dual Core AMD Athlon X2
DirectX 10
this same laptop runs TGE fine, very fast. And can play most retail commercial PC games.
I updated the drivers , like I said, but still no luck.
If it can't even play the "EMPTY" demo without slowdown, I imagine its a card issue. I have more than enough VRAM.
This is a very popular series of laptops. I'm sure that Best Buy has sold tens of thousands of them. I went to visit my brother last year and found out that he has the exact same machine and we never even compared notes before we both bought laptops.
This issue alone may probably cause me to have to revert back to TGE for now. My other two laptops run T3D perfectly fine (and they are even older machines) , but I'm afraid that if I release a T3D game , anyone with my laptop will simply not be able to play it, even if they update their drivers.
Even the EMPTY template is very, very slow.... probably about 7 fps. Very choppy.
I just updated the drivers. No change.
system specs
2008 HP Pavillion laptop (dv6000 model) . its only 2 years old.
2 Gigs DDR2 RAM
Nvidia GeForce Go 7150m with 793 MB shared video memory available
Dual Core AMD Athlon X2
DirectX 10
this same laptop runs TGE fine, very fast. And can play most retail commercial PC games.
I updated the drivers , like I said, but still no luck.
If it can't even play the "EMPTY" demo without slowdown, I imagine its a card issue. I have more than enough VRAM.
This is a very popular series of laptops. I'm sure that Best Buy has sold tens of thousands of them. I went to visit my brother last year and found out that he has the exact same machine and we never even compared notes before we both bought laptops.
This issue alone may probably cause me to have to revert back to TGE for now. My other two laptops run T3D perfectly fine (and they are even older machines) , but I'm afraid that if I release a T3D game , anyone with my laptop will simply not be able to play it, even if they update their drivers.
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Lead Developer for MediaBreeze Multimedia
#42
02/11/2010 (2:56 pm)
No, the binary is only updated on release versions (1.0, 1.01 and 1.1 when it is final). The SM2 change did work better in 1.0x though for us so that might not be a bad thing.
#43
02/11/2010 (2:57 pm)
I hear you. that's good news. I'll Wait until 1.1 goes Binary.
#44
02/11/2010 (3:40 pm)
Anyway, good to see the SM2 bug is on the plate. Another thing I would hope is not the case with the binary is that the alpha build had some debug routines compiled in. Hopefully that is not the case with the binary as there isn't any way for binary owners to recompile it. This was impacting performance for others as well. 
Torque Owner Nmuta Jones