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Which games will work on a T60 with ATI x1400?
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:50 pm
by thnkpd
Hi,
I want to buy a (second-hand) Thinkpad T60 with 1GB Ram and an ATI x1400 card.
The seller says that even Bioshock works on a x1400.
I have checked this at the minimum system requirements of this game, and it seems to be true.
But I was wondering how good Bioshock will run on that Thinkpad?
Will it be playable?
And what other games (some examples are really welcome) can I expect to be working on a x1400?
Many thanks
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:38 pm
by ryengineer
No gamer here.
If Windows Vista rating matters to you then the 128MB ATI Radeon X1400 graphics card on Thinkpad T60 is rated more than the discrete GPU on Thinkpads T61 (non p) series.
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:54 pm
by eghck
My experience so far
Company of Heroes will run smoothly at the lowest settings but it won’t be pretty. I forget at what resolution
Command and Conquer 3 will run smoothly on mostly low settings. I can get a smooth frame rate regardless of whats going on with Med Decals, Textures, Terrain, the second setting for VFX and everything else on the lowest setting. 800x600.
I can run Team Fortress 2 & Portal very smoothly under Directx 8.1 in 1024x768 with Med Textures and everything else on low and no shadows or AA. Under Directx 9 it’s a bit choppy even with everything on low for 1024x768 but still very playable. Personally I don’t think it looks that much better in DirectX 9 and I want a smooth frame rate above everything else.
Im using the older Lenovo supplied Radeon drivers though (8.293). Newer drivers may improve performance.
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:22 am
by thnkpd
@eghck and @ryengineer: many thanks for your replies.
But other examples of games running on a x1400 are of course still welcome.
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:19 pm
by bento
There's a useful comparison table at:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Gra ... 844.0.html
Bioshock is a demanding game. My current machine can run it tolerably at medium to high graphics settings (3dMark05 at 5600 with version 163.44 drivers).
I had earlier tried running the game on a similar machine with NVS 140M, but it was poor at anything above the lowest settings.
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:58 pm
by Diehard
Bioshock is a demanding game. My current machine can run it tolerably at medium to high graphics settings (3dMark05 at 5600 with version 163.44 drivers).
I had earlier tried running the game on a similar machine with NVS 140M, but it was poor at anything above the lowest settings.
Did you play with 2GB or 1GB? I'm playing Bioshock with t61, 2GB, and it runs just fine! With only 1GB, it ran not good!
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:10 pm
by bento
It was 2GB, but with older (stock) driver, so maybe not a completely fair comparison.