FireGL and Vista

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gevaudan · #1 Post by **gevaudan** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:42 am

Hello all, I recently formatted and decided to put Vista Business edition on instead of XP-SP2. Now that Lenovo has updated all of their drivers, I simply ran System Update and updated everything including my display drivers. I have a FireGL 5200 card running on a Thinkpad T60P and was quite shocked to see that my Vista experience scores are as follows:

Processor - 4.7
Memory - 4.9
Graphics - 2.5
Gaming Graphics - 3.6
Primary hard disk - 5.1

Is this normal to only receive a 2.5 for Graphics (i.e. Desktop performance for Windows Aero). I remember originally running it with the MS drivers a while back and receiving a 4.6 I believe. Before I rollback to the aforementioned drivers, I wanted to get an idea of what others with the T60P are getting in terms of graphics.

hoplite · #2 Post by **hoplite** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:18 am

Processor: 4.9
Memory: 4.5
Graphics: 4.3
Gaming: 4.7
HD: 5.1

Hope that helps.

miri · #3 Post by **miri** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:17 am

Very strange. Probably there will be any problem with the driver.
I have an X60s with Intel GMA 950 and it gets a 3.1 score

The GMA driver of mine was downloaded from Windows Update. The one with System Update was older.

Check the driver using System Update

steveg47 · #4 Post by **steveg47** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:19 am

Change the powerplay setting in the ATI catalyst control center to "Maximum Performance" plugged in.

riverwater · #5 Post by **riverwater** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:15 am

I have same 5200 card in T60p, get graphics score 4.3.
Did you install the latest ATI catalys driver, I believe it is version 7.2

gevaudan · #6 Post by **gevaudan** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:29 am

Change the powerplay setting in the ATI catalyst control center to "Maximum Performance" plugged in.

Thanks all, this reply was dead on the money. I wonder why this isn't the default setting? After switching it and restarting the laptop, my new scores are as follows for a 2.0 GhZ, 2.0 GIG, FireGL 5200, 7200 RPM hard drive machine. Keep in mind, this is using the Catalyst driver available via System Update--not the MS one.

Processor - 4.7
Memory (RAM) - 4.9
Graphics - 4.2
Gaming Graphics - 4.6
Primary hard disk - 5.1

byunnbi · #7 Post by **byunnbi** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:40 pm

Miri, does that mean you can run Aero with just an Intel GMA 950? You're 3.1 is awfully close to my FireGL T2 128mb, @ 3.5. I saw a review of the X60 tablet running Vista, and I noticed that Aero was definitely enabled with sxga res even though it had an Intel GMA 950.

stephenaron · #8 Post by **stephenaron** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:53 am

I have a t60p running vista (retail) with 2 Gb of ram and a 2.33 ghz core 2 duo. Here are my numbers:
Processor: 5.2
Memory: 4.7
Graphics: 4.3
Gaming: 4.6
HD: 5.1

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