makken

Hi guys,

How is the performance of the Mobility X600 in Half Life 2? I've been playing for a while, and just looked up some benchmarks, and it seems that I'm underperforming based on those

Now, I believe it's been said and accepted that the MR X600 performs the same as an MR9700. According to an Anandtech article, the MR9700's performance is somewhere between the desktop 9600XT and the regular 9700: http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/show...px?i=1957&p=17

In Anandtech's Half Life 2 GPU roundup part 2, they benchmarked HL2 over a bunch of video cards including the 9600XT and the 9700 regular. One benchmark i noticed in particular was the walk on the beach: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2281&p=6. When I played this level, it was choppy, not to the point that it was unplayable, but it was noticable and annoying. a quick net_graph 3 check showed my fps hovered generally around 40, and went down to low 30's / high 20's during firefights.

Now, I run the game at a resolution of 1280x768 (widescreen) with all settings on medium except texture quality on high. Anandtech runs those benchmarks with all settings on high, and even at 1280x1024, their 9600XT is able to average 48fps.

Here are my specs:

P-M 1.86Ghz
1.5GB DDR2 (1x512, 1x1GB)
MR X600 64MB (256MB hyper'd), ATi Mobility Cat 5.7 w/ CCC (clocked at 400/250)
Windows XP Pro SP2 w/ DirectX 9.0c
AA and AF are disabled, minimap detail set on performance, Cat AI on advanced, Geometry instancing on.

what gives?