World of Warcraft on the 6920
Posted by 
Michael Walsh) on Jun 17 2008 | Tagged as: Acer
As if proof were needed that you guys ROCK… gronkstergronk has posted a video of his 6920 playing World of Warcraft.
I’ve included his text description here but I’m sure this video is where most of you will stop.
Thanks gronkstergronk!
Hi Guys & Gals,
People have been asking,
Can the New Acer 6920 Gemstone Blue play games?.
Well here is footage of me playing World of Warcraft on it. The sound is awesome coming out of the built-in speakers. My version of the Laptop is only 2.1Ghz with Bluray and 2.1 surround.
But when the laptop is connected to a 32″ Samsung HDTV through HDMI and audio through a Sony Home Cinema Amp from the SPDIF optical output, it’s totally Awesome.
Well Done Acer this Laptop Rocks big time.
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on 18 Jun 2008 at 1:16 am 1
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
WOW’s system requirements are pretty low, my 5920 handled it on 1280×800 on 16xAA super playable, use something more demanding like crysis, or unreal 3 engine based. these are more popular benchmarking software
on 18 Jun 2008 at 11:49 am 2
james (Check me out!) said …
Samsung is another brand which offers you many variants of HDTV screens. Samsung uses LED smart lighting technique which helps in adjusting the brightness by switching on and off the optimum combination of backlight producing contrast ratio of 500,000 to 1.
on 24 Jun 2008 at 7:22 am 3
Greg (Check me out!) said …
Buying Crysis tonight to do a test on my 6920-6428. So far I’ve had no problem running anything with WoW running at a constant 60fps and TF2 running at around 30-40 fps.
on 24 Jun 2008 at 8:17 am 4
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
Kewl, looking forward to your test results.
on 01 Jul 2008 at 8:19 am 5
Mike (Check me out!) said …
Hi it’s very nice that u made this video, just have 3 questions regarding your WOW playing test :
1. Are u running the game with the video drivers provided by the manufacturer ? Or u downloaded something new (guesing for Nvidia will be a detonator release or something like ati’s catalyst)
2. Have u experienced a 40 man raid on this machine yet, how did it performed ?
3. The overall heating issue , how do fans behave (noisy), does keyboard get too hot ? where is the main hot air exhaustion back, sides, etc ?
tyvm for your time, im looking forward to your answers to help me decide if this beauty can handle my wow addiction
mikepayne - thrall server - human 70 rogue
on 10 Jul 2008 at 8:08 pm 6
Greg (Check me out!) said …
I dont get it.. why is there no Crysis tests on the acer?
Why test a new laptop with a 4 year old game? makes no sense.
Even the eee pc can handle wow. Come on test some games that will push the system not wow. wow is about Ram and with 4gb it wont be a problem loading citys and raids.
with a GeForce 9500M GS, (equivalent to the 8600M GT)
should run wow on max.
on 17 Jul 2008 at 2:59 pm 7
Tomi (Check me out!) said …
Hi,
I just bought this laptop and I´m not very statisfacted on it.
I reinstalled it with vista business 32 bit and when I´m playing GRID or NFS pro street it hangs a lot…
I have newest display drivers etc. I did not install those stypid Acer´s own stuff…
on 29 Jul 2008 at 6:03 pm 8
Mike (Check me out!) said …
Hello at all ,
3weeks ago i got the same laptop but after 5minutes gameplay my fps will crash from like 120 to 20 .. no malware , etc.
Any ideas?
on 29 Jul 2008 at 7:51 pm 9
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
I think there is some overheating issues with acer laptop during the summer, I have already received several cases(including myself) the laptop is running slow after a few minutes of game playing, especially more intensive games. What I did was I removed the plastic piece with holes(the one that is tapped inside the backside board where the fan intake is)this is only to make sure smaller objects does not fall into the laptop and jamming the fan. My aspire’s warranty has already expired, that is why i did it. if your laptop is still under warranty, try putting the laptop on a stand for more air flow from the bottom. if it helps then it is over heating.(removing the filter thing kept the laptop alot cooler for mine)
on 30 Jul 2008 at 5:07 am 10
Mike (Check me out!) said …
Good Idea but I think Its more the sound because when the fps are crashing the svchost.exe is using 30-50percent of the cpu , it hosts the audio engine thats why it spikes . I tried playing without souns and everything perfect … but what am I doing wrong ? (sorry for my english)
on 30 Jul 2008 at 8:30 am 11
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
try updating the sound card driver, if it still does not work, remove all the sound drivers, and uninstall the device from device manager.
on 30 Jul 2008 at 3:25 pm 12
Mike (Check me out!) said …
hmm good ideab but i tried this allready but i downloades a audio fix for vista from ItsVista.com and now i am runing my laptop 17hours without any problem .. but anyway thanks morris
on 31 Jul 2008 at 12:13 am 13
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
good to hear lad!!
on 01 Aug 2008 at 4:45 am 14
shannon (Check me out!) said …
hi,I bought a 6920 15days ago. but now the cinedash is not working, I think maybe blocking. There are only blue light in the volume(max). How can make it work again?
would you plese send the solution to my e-mail box?
That is pdanq@msn.com
thank you ~
on 01 Aug 2008 at 4:47 am 15
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
I heard that if you take out the battery and put it back will work, something in that nature, do not know the actual reason and solution.
on 02 Aug 2008 at 10:03 pm 16
Tomi (Check me out!) said …
Mike, could you tell me which audio fix you installed from ItsVista.com?
I really like to install it to my laptop too, because this freezing think is going to kill me…
on 07 Aug 2008 at 11:42 am 17
Mike (Check me out!) said …
hi Tomi , i hope it helps —->
http://itsvista.com/2008/06/kb950754/
on 21 Aug 2008 at 10:44 am 18
shae (Check me out!) said …
guys i am a newbie on pc’s(technically) only a hardcore gamer.. is the aspire 6920 the 2.0 ghz version good too play games like cod4,fuels of war,crysis with medium settings????? i just read a post it said it overheats is that true??? please help me out im gonna buy it out of my savings only for gaming. or add me on msn kshitij_bawa@hotmail.com
on 21 Aug 2008 at 8:05 pm 19
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
shae, if it does come with anything above 9500m gs, it will run all unreal 3 titles on maximum settings(except in dx10 with AA) as for crysis, medium settings, for a 9600, crysis might be able to run high