How good is the Aspire 5920 for games…?
- posted by Michael Walsh on July 17th, 2007
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My wife doesn’t let me loose with the fun stuff all that often so it’s good to see that some users are putting the Aspire 5920 to good use!
I was following a discussion over on Notebook Forums and came across this video. Like the comment says, it’s not really a pic of the laptop but the speed which games run on it. I’ll think you’ll all agree that it’s pretty damned fast.
Anyone play anything else?
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Jing wrote, on July 19th, 2007:
Modded drivers 162.18 are a minimum must for this laptop. Halo 2 runs poorly with texture flickering and artifacts with the stock drivers.
Installing 162.18 from LaptopVideo2Go boosts performance, and helps games that use AA.
Get them here: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13894
Do not install 165.01. It disables the Hibernate/sleep Facility on a majority of notebooks.
Follow the instructions carefully and they work perfectly.
To test the performance difference run 3dmark06, the score should increase.
Another test which is “real world performance”
If you have tomb raider legend. Play it with all settings on apart from “next-gen”. Turn on “Full Screen AA”. Notice how slow the game runs, especially the mouse interface.
Then download and install the 162.18 drivers with the same settings. Now if you do not notice a difference I will be amazed.
It is very troubling to play old games on Vista, whilst installing them is another hurdle. Warcraft 3 for example is a favourite of mine, but Vista reports that the game is not compatible with my machine when the disc is inserted. Newer games run fine.
Guild Wars runs fine with a solid 60 FPS. Halo 2 is great with the 162.18 drivers, the occasional slow down.
Half Life 2 Episode 1, runs at 30FPS+ with all settings turned on high. Extremely smooth First Person Action.
Lost Planet DX10 Demo performance test on the default settings which ranged from high and medium led to
Snow Level: 16 FPS Average
Cave Level: 22 FPS Average
Real world gaming was a worse affair. The game kept telling me to reduce settings, so I set most video options to low. The resolution was kept at 1280×720.
I got an average frame rate of 14-17FPS outside which strangely did not drop when encountering many enemies. With Average of 22FPS indoors, in the garage with all the spider creatures.
Michael Walsh wrote, on July 20th, 2007:
Jing.
You say it’s poor on real world gaming? That’s a bummer. Any ideas why (drivers apart)??
Like I said I’m psyching myself up for the next wave of Gemstones and need to convince myself of the relevance of this design/product for gamers as we spent a lot of time and energy getting the “natural” side of this first model across (industrial design) which was great fun doing but really took the machine away from gamers who appear to be getting quite a lot out of it.
Of course if the spec’s not up to scratch I won’t even try but wouldn’t it be great to help create a Gamer Gemstone?
What would it need? How far could Acer take the concept before it overwhelmed itself or specced/priced itself out of the market?
Haringz wrote, on July 26th, 2007:
Hi,
Just bought the 5920 yesterday. First impressions are very positive.
I tried WoW and CS:Source.
Wow all settings maxed, all options on, native res (except viewing distance to mid) smooth 60 fps, same for CS:Source.
More powerfull than my ‘old’ desktop AMD64 3.2+ ati9800 pro 128mb
Grtz
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