Gaming on T42

[goyan]

Hi all,

I have used my T42 for about 6 months and has been very satisfied with its performance for work. However, only recently I tried installing a couple of games on it (LEGO Star Wars & Star Wars: Knight of Old Republic 2). Both of them will not work and saying my graphic card does not support openGL (or something like that). T42 has a ATI Radeon 7500 in it, I thought its 3D performance should be quite good. Or it is just me that I didn't install the right driver for it?

Regards

Goyan

[Steve007]

The MR7500 is a load of slash for modern 3D gaming but it'll still run games like UT2003 without too much trouble.

People need to bare in mind that the 7500 is not a gaming chip....

[asiafish]

KOTOR 2 is notoriously sensitive to video drivers and remains buggy. I can't get it to run on my T42p unless I open the actual application folder and (proram files/lucasarts/SWKotor2) and then set the application file (swkotor2) to run in Windows 2000 compatibility mode.

I would run IBM< Software installer to get the latest driver for your video card, then set the Kotor2 app to run in Win2K compatibility mode with text features disabled and you should be fine, IF your video card is up to this game, which it may not be.

With the above mods, it runs great on my T42p, but still save OFTEN as the game likes to crash from time to time.

Andrew

[FTC]

Hi,

Everything that has been said is true, but you also must make sure you have the latest graphics drivers correctly installed. For sure the 7500 DOES support direct3d AND opengl. If you want further compatibility you'll need to explore things such as loading the latest catalyst drivers conveniently modded for mobility chips and such.

I have had quite a success with my T40 and ATI7500 gaming... with games that are even not theoretically supported on top of this chip, such as DOOM3 or Warhammer40000 .... (of course, some times with lowered quality settings)

[ChristopherTD]

Lego Star Wars is extremely picky. It does work on my T42p with the 128MB FireGL card, but the list of cards that the game supports is very small.

I suspect the 7500 is not one of those. I am not quite sure why they limited their market by excluding so many graphics cards.

[zverg]

Hi all,

I have used my T42 for about 6 months and has been very satisfied with its performance for work. However, only recently I tried installing a couple of games on it (LEGO Star Wars & Star Wars: Knight of Old Republic 2). Both of them will not work and saying my graphic card does not support openGL (or something like that). T42 has a ATI Radeon 7500 in it, I thought its 3D performance should be quite good. Or it is just me that I didn't install the right driver for it?

Regards

Goyan

I didn't think the 7500 was DirectX9 compatible? I love gaming on my Thinkpad T42, it is sufficient when I can't be at my desktop but still want to have fun.