T61p Vista X64 gaming

[Grench]

I searched but didn't find anywhere that addressed these questions directly. So, I thought I would create a thread that addresses games that work, games that don't, and games that need special consideration.

Please keep the thread specific to games under Vista X64 on T61 machines.

I've only had my T61p (WUXGA) for a week. I've been surprised at how well some of my old games operate under the 64bit OS. I've also been a bit annoyed with how Vista pitch scaling messes with one of them.

Half Life 1 (Yep, the old one). Sets up and runs smooth at 1920x1080 res. It appears to stretch it to the 1920x1200 screen though.

Half Life 2 Episode 2. Sets up and runs smooth at 1920x1200.

Neverwinter Nights 1 (With SOU, HOTU). Runs very nicely IF the pitch scaler is set to 'normal' with tiny fonts. Changing the pitch scale under Vista to 'large' or 'custom' causes the game to freek out. It took a while for me to figure out what was causing this issue. I had installed and run the game smoothly, then found the pitch scaler in Vista and had bumped that up for easy viewing which results in the game failing to start in anything but 800x600 windowed mode. With 1920x1200 full grass/shadow/anti-aliasing set high, the game runs 30-45 fps. Multiplayer online with boatloads of FX/spells going, it drops to 12-30, but that has more to do with the communications lag than the machine itself.

Thats all I have on it so far. What are your experiences?

[rbena]

Good to hear you've received a new T61p.

There is a very good thread that discusses problems with gaming on the T61p -
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=47755

You may want to test your unit with 3Dmark06 (and also stress test with Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, and Crysis), to see if yours has similar problems.

[aiiee]

I played Bioshock and CoD4 all weekend on my new T61p ( 2x1gb ram, t9300 Core Duo ) and no problems whatsoever, didn't catch frame rate, I have to get the software for it. But encouraging given all the problems people have reported

[Grench]

Good to hear you've received a new T61p.

There is a very good thread that discusses problems with gaming on the T61p -
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=47755

You may want to test your unit with 3Dmark06 (and also stress test with Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, and Crysis), to see if yours has similar problems.

That thread appears to deal more with the 32bit OS.

I intended this thread to be specific to the nuances of what works or doesn't under 64 bit (X64) Vista.

[pae77]

COD4 works pretty well (don't know frame rate) on V x64 here.