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T60P and Gaming

#1 Post by taichi » Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:25 pm

Yes, I know the T60P is not a gaming computer, nevertheless...

I've played Far Cry, and some other games on it. I've read that Far Cry 2 will run on it at modest graphics settings. I'm wondering, what games people have played on this machine with its 5200 Fire GL.

Will Thief: Deadly Shadows run on it, or the third Deus Ex, for example?

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Re: T60P and Gaming

#2 Post by ZaZ » Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:20 pm

While not exactly the same, I played Call of Cthulhu on my R60 with X1400.
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#3 Post by hoax32 » Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:05 pm

I owned a T60 with a X1400 and played following games on it:

GTA: San Andreas [High settings] ~50FPS
CoD2 [High settings] ~50FPS
CoD: MW [low settings] ~35FPS
CoD5: WaW [very low settings] ~21FPS
Silent Hill: The Room [low settins] ~30FPS
GTA3 [High Settings] ~50FPS
Resident Evil 5[very low settings] ~25FPS

On a T60p you will maybee see a %30 Frame Rate increase over the X1400.
All the Games ran with an average of OVER 20FPS which makes it playable for me.
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Re: T60P and Gaming

#4 Post by taichi » Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:12 pm

GTA San Andreas sounds interesting...glad it can work on the T60P. Did you like it better than Vice City?

Still curious if anyone has tried Deus Ex Human Revolution or Thief:Deadly Shadows.

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Re: T60P and Gaming

#5 Post by spork981 » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:36 pm

I've got a T60p with the 5200, and it's not too bad. Medium/medium-high quality with Portal 2, medium with TF2, and if you're a minecraft fan, using linux has gotten me up to 50-60fps on normal render distance.

I haven't played any newer games yet, so I can't tell you how Deus Ex runs on it, sorry.

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#6 Post by taichi » Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:36 pm

Thanks for all the replies thus far.

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#7 Post by Raceboy » Wed Apr 04, 2012 1:09 am

V5200 can run pretty decent games and FYI, GTA Vice City is perfectly playable (XGA res, medium settings) even on T42 Radeon 7500.

I've used T60p on our small lanpartys where we mostly play COD, COD 2 and COD 4. First two run on maximum settings and 1400x1050 resolution, latter runs on 1024x768 and low settings. CPU was T7200 and RAM was 3 GB.

I've also played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl (with static lighting of course) and with medium settings it played very well.

I used Windows Update drivers for V5200 but there is a claim in this board in a recent topic that some Catalyst drivers can be Mobility Modded to get much better performance but I haven't tried them yet as I sold my last T60p and now waiting for another from BobA.
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Re: T60P and Gaming

#8 Post by dr_st » Wed Apr 04, 2012 1:21 am

taichi wrote:GTA San Andreas sounds interesting...glad it can work on the T60P. Did you like it better than Vice City?
I played San Andreas on my T60 with X1400, which is weaker than V5200, and it mostly runs fine, and at high resolutions (SXGA+ or WSXGA+). The heat haze / motion blur effect at high speed is heavy on the GPU, though.

I still like Vice City better than San Andreas. San Andreas to me feels just too big, too long, too complex. Just getting from point A to point B takes ages.
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Re: T60P and Gaming

#9 Post by hoax32 » Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:24 am

The NVS140m is about on the same level as the V5200/V5250 of the T60p!
With that Card, some light overclocking and a decent Core 2 Duo (at least a T7300) and 4GB RAM + a fast Hard Drive and Game booster you should be able to play GTA4 on lowest with a good +25FPS frame rate if low resolution doesnt bother you too much!! :thumbs-UP:
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Re: T60P and Gaming

#10 Post by taichi » Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:26 am

Unfortunately, I'm poking along on just the Core Duo.

Given that T60Ps tend to run a bit hot, isn't overclocking a little risky? You need the Catalyst Control Panel (not installed on my system) to do this, I believe.

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