T61 - Aero / Flip3D Performance - Help please...

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Kryptonic · #1 Post by **Kryptonic** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:06 pm

Hi all,

Got a small question about the performance of Flip 3D on my T61... When i have a few windows open (more than 2 or 3) and i engage flip3d and fip between the windows, its a little "laggy", i mean the framerate seems to be low, and when i switch to a window the framerate seems to drop even more (especially if i flip between full screen IE windows), altho just maximising and minimising windows seems nice and smooth... I can play CS - Source at 1680x1050, everything on max settings and get avg 40 - 60fps...

The 3d card is an NVS 140m 128mb ram and im using the latest Microsoft Nvidia drivers from Windows Update... (if i use July drivers from Lenovo, Vista Update says its august driver is better...)

Anyone got any ideas of why the performance of flip3d seems somewhat sluggish on my laptop? Spec is 2ghz duo, 3gig ram, nvs140m graphics...

Cheers
Will

PS: if it helps my vista rating is, CPU=4.9, RAM=4.8, Gfx=4.0, Gaming=4.6, HDD=5.2

ocellaris · #2 Post by **ocellaris** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:44 pm

For as simple as it is, Flip3D runs pretty bad on some PCs I have at work running Vista Ultimate + discreet video cards. The PCs seem to run other 3D apps fairly well, but I get lag pulling up Flip3D and then rotating through the windows to the point where I completely gave up on the "feature".

Kryptonic · #3 Post by **Kryptonic** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:47 pm

ahhhh - so its not just me.....

its really depressing, ive just splashed out £1400 on this laptop and it cant even handle a simple O/S UI feature - times like this i wish id have bought hte MacBook Pro lol!!!

any ideas on how i can boost performance a touch?

ocellaris · #4 Post by **ocellaris** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:58 pm

its really depressing, ive just splashed out £1400 on this laptop and it cant even handle a simple O/S UI feature

I think its more like, "Why can't Microsoft figure out how to make the most simple 3D app on the planet not run like total junk?"

Its basically just a few flat textures maps rotating around over a transparency. It should run fine on 1999 hardware imo.

SHoTTa35 · #5 Post by **SHoTTa35** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:59 pm

that's weird, guess it must be a bug or something. I have a T42 as you can see from my sig and i can "Flip" tons of windows no problem and they flow nicely (hehe, just did it for the hell of it)

Sorry i don't have any ideas tho for that one

ocellaris · #6 Post by **ocellaris** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:02 pm

My work PC is a desktop Core Duo 3.0 GHz with 2GB RAM and a GeForce 7900 GTsomething video card and I get lag when I pull up the Flip 3D feature and then again when I try transferring to the newly selected window. If I do it a bunch of times in a row it gets smooth however the first time always hurts

Kryptonic · #7 Post by **Kryptonic** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:11 pm

yeh, once ive opened up Flip3D and got it spinning, it seems OK, its the initial animation that makes everything 3d......

is it worth trying some different drivers - maybe from LaptopVideo2Go ?

T61 - Aero / Flip3D Performance - Help please...

T61 - Aero / Flip3D Performance - Help please...

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