CoD on Laptop

[Tbone81]

Originally Posted by FS~Phat

I have a pretty amazing rig for home use but have just ordered one of these to use an external GTX580 with my Sony Z128 Laptop.


http://www.hwtools.net/Adapter/PE4H.html

Dont know if any of you have seen these before.
I've been researching this before and its now become a much simpler process.

Its an external express card to PCIE adapter.

Designed for engineer testing of PCIE devices.
Im going to use it for gaming on my VAIO Z128 laptop with an external GTX580! How cool is that!
The integrated GT330M just isnt cutting it for some of the stuff I want to play, and when I go away for the weekend to our family holiday house I can just pack the Lappy, adaptor, Powersuppply and I can play all my games at 60FPS+

Here's an example pretty much of the setup as i will have it too. He has the exact same lappy as me known as a Z117 in other countries.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/7718053-post4504.html

Holy ....

Usb fast enough for that?

[FS~Phat]

Originally Posted by Tbone81

Holy ....

Usb fast enough for that?

Its not USB its Express card to PCIE 1x.
With the Nvidia Optimus driver you get compression and upto 70% of the performance of a full 16x PCIE slot.
Nvidia are currently developing (and probably ATI too, though not confirmed) external GPU for thunderbolt port which is electrically equivalent of a PCIE 2.0 x4. These will come out on next gen PC's and laptops. Sony have already released their version for their laptops.

[tintifaxl]

Originally Posted by FS~Phat

Its not USB its Express card to PCIE 1x.
With the Nvidia Optimus driver you get compression and upto 70% of the performance of a full 16x PCIE slot.
Nvidia are currently developing (and probably ATI too, though not confirmed) external GPU for thunderbolt port which is electrically equivalent of a PCIE 2.0 x4. These will come out on next gen PC's and laptops. Sony have already released their version for their laptops.

I can tell you from my test that a GTX 580 on a PCI-E 1x slot has lots of stutters and low fps in Clod with medium to low settings @1920x1080. Arma2 on the other hand, worked perfectly.

[FS~Phat]

Originally Posted by tintifaxl

I can tell you from my test that a GTX 580 on a PCI-E 1x slot has lots of stutters and low fps in Clod with medium to low settings @1920x1080. Arma2 on the other hand, worked perfectly.

Yes but you didnt have the benefit of compression which Nvidia have put into their Optimus drivers for mobile devices. This driver doubles performance of a PCIE x1 slot in laptops through compression and it only works on Intel IGP: Intel GMA 4500MHD, HD, HD3000 or x3150 (Pine Trail) laptops or chipsets.

I expect to get fluid gameplay on my laptop with maximum details...
Ill keep you guys posted. My other system is having a major overhaul and while I do that i needed something else to game with when I want a break.
See my other thread to see what im talking about!
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=25288

[Vengeanze]

Originally Posted by FS~Phat

Yes but you didnt have the benefit of compression which Nvidia have put into their Optimus drivers for mobile devices. This driver doubles performance of a PCIE x1 slot in laptops through compression and it only works on Intel IGP: Intel GMA 4500MHD, HD, HD3000 or x3150 (Pine Trail) laptops or chipsets.

I expect to get fluid gameplay on my laptop with maximum details...
Ill keep you guys posted. My other system is having a major overhaul and while I do that i needed something else to game with when I want a break.
See my other thread to see what im talking about!
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=25288

Please keep us updated. Looking at something like that but with Thunderbolt.
Thunderbolt with that kind of comp could be sweet.

[Anvilfolk]

Hm, this might be a nice alternative to buying a whole computer or a new laptop...


Also, my wife's laptop runs CoD pretty decently. Above 30 fps. It has an i5 420 and a Radeon 5850 or something like that.

This nVidia 330m on the other hand........