T23 Garbled Graphics

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DrThinkpad · #1 Post by **DrThinkpad** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:56 pm

My cousin's T23 has garbled graphics. Any ideas ?

ajkula66 · #2 Post by **ajkula66** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:44 pm

Can you post a link to the picture?

ArtShapiro · #3 Post by **ArtShapiro** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:16 pm

Is it a Windows machine? If so, can it be booted up in VGA mode (an option when you tap F8 as the machine is coming up) to see if this is a graphics driver problem rather than a hardware issue?

Art

DrThinkpad · #4 Post by **DrThinkpad** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:02 pm

ArtShapiro wrote:Is it a Windows machine? If so, can it be booted up in VGA mode (an option when you tap F8 as the machine is coming up) to see if this is a graphics driver problem rather than a hardware issue?

Art

Shouldn't be an hardware issue, we can't notice it on Windows but very well in games & such.

ajkula66 · #5 Post by **ajkula66** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:01 pm

Well, you're stressing out the poor GPU which has only 16MB of VRAM...there's really no cure for that. T23 is a lovely machine, but gaming rig it's not by any stretch of imagination....

DrThinkpad · #6 Post by **DrThinkpad** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:28 am

ajkula66 wrote:Well, you're stressing out the poor GPU which has only 16MB of VRAM...there's really no cure for that. T23 is a lovely machine, but gaming rig it's not by any stretch of imagination....

My T40 has lovely graphics on games. This T23 should atleast be able to run Counter-Strike 1.6 ?

ajkula66 · #7 Post by **ajkula66** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:59 pm

DrThinkpad wrote:

My T40 has lovely graphics on games. This T23 should atleast be able to run Counter-Strike 1.6 ?

Well, I don't know games, but I do know ThinkPads...so let's see:

P3M CPU with max clock of 1.2 running against PM CPU of 1.4 or higher...and double the cache...to begin with.

Savage GPU with 16MB running against (at least) Radeon 7500 with 32MB VRAM and double (at least) the cache...

PC133 RAM against DDR266 RAM...

Yes, I could see that you could play certain games on a T40 that would bug the living daylight out of a T23...if you still don't understand why, feel free to read all of the above again...

DrThinkpad · #8 Post by **DrThinkpad** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:12 pm

Counter-Strike asks for 16mb of graphics, weird its graphics are garbled when the card meets the requirements

comptiger5000 · #9 Post by **comptiger5000** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:34 pm

Card could be running hot under load.

#10 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:02 pm

Aside from the S3 chips lack of cooling, it has less cache, a slower internal clock speed, a slower bus speed, less overall features and less processing capabilities. It's not just VRAM that accounts for a GPU's performance.

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