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| Hey, I've been having some major issues with running The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind on my new laptop. I've got the current setup, all stock:
160gb HDD
2gb RAM
Amd Turion 64 x2 TL-60
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M ( MCP67M )
Vista Home Premium 32bit
The graphics and gaming performance number for my laptop is a 2.6, which is pretty low.. but I'm pretty sure it should run just fine on here considering how well it runs on my 2 year old Compaq with XP. Other people have Vista, but don't have this problem..
..The main problem is with my FPS. It stays at a unstable 11ish FPS at nearly all times. Looking to the ground causes my FPS to shoot up to about 30-35, but this does no good since I can't walk around staring at the ground! I've tried installing DX9c, but my computer still registers DX10 running. I've tried fiddling with settings on the NVIDIA control panel to no success. The only way it seems to get good framerates is to set my resolution to 640x480 with draw distance all the way down and pixel shading off. 
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| First off, you really can't compare XP with Vista in terms of benchmarking performance. Vista is a major change in underlying architecture from XP. It's like saying that XP is slow because the same configuration on a Windows 98 box runs a lot faster. Each new OS architecture brings with it more complexity, and Vista is no different.
Secondly, the major determinants of FPS on a machine is going to be a combination of the GPU speed on the video card, the video memory speed, the screen resolution, and the amount of "eye candy" you have turned on in the game. A site I frequent is HardOCP.com, where they regularly put new video cards through the paces with modern games. Time and time again, they indicated that getting better FPS is a complex combination of tweaking all these factors.
If you can't overclock your GPU, and you've turned off all the "eye candy", lowering the resolution (as you've already done) is your last option. This reduces dramatically the number of pixels that the graphics engine has to redraw.
If you want faster response, with higher resolution, and more "eye candy" -- then you'll have to get a higher-end video card.
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Last Login: 3/20/2008 2:34:23 PM
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| NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M
That is most likely your weak link. The Geforce 7150 is a total garbage budget card, it's actually slower than the entire Geforce 6 card series. The rest of your system looks fine.
If you looked in-depth at your Windows Score I would imagine it would be mostly 4-5's for CPU, RAM, HD, etc, and the 2.6 is coming specifically from your video card.
In all honestly I doubt that the lag on Morrowind has anything to do with Vista, it's most likely because your video card is crap. No offense intended, but it's true.
Another thing about Morrowind, is depending on what shader model your video card has, it will run higher quality shading, and if the card isn't fast enough to handle that type of shading you're going to suffer. This is another downside to budget cards, they put newer technology in them so they can put a label on it and sell them to unsuspecting customers, but the cards themselves don't have enough performance to handle it so the customer essentially gets ripped off.
I'm not sure if you can actually upgrade it or not as it's a laptop, and the Geforce 7150 is a built in video chip as far as I know, so I don't even know if your motherboard supports video card upgrades either.
Vista Ultimate 64
Geforce 8800GTS
AMD 64 X2 5200+
4GB DDR800 RAM
500GB Harddrive
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