But it's telling me I need the latest drivers. I had a similar problem with EQ2. They told me the game can't be designed to run on every laptop perfectly.
When I click the area map button the map comes to me piece by piece rather than all at once, even with lowered settings.
Seems pends on how much you probably paid, you could end up with a Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD or a Radeon 4570 mobile. Generally intel anything graphics are TRIBBLE, so if you have that you may be able to go to Dell and see if they'll do an upgrade, not entirely sure if they can though. If you've got the 4570 mobile, seems that was the best they offer from Dell, and not entirely sure if you can swap that with a better mobile card or not. I don't really deal with laptops and the such. Anyways, if you've got an intel graphics right now, try contacting Dell if they can do an upgrade for you. Otherwise hopefully someone else'll have better information.
Right click desktop, go to properties/pesonalize/whateveron7, then display options and it should be relatively clear which one.
Seems pends on how much you probably paid, you could end up with a Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD or a Radeon 4570 mobile. Generally intel anything graphics are TRIBBLE, so if you have that you may be able to go to Dell and see if they'll do an upgrade, not entirely sure if they can though. If you've got the 4570 mobile, seems that was the best they offer from Dell, and not entirely sure if you can swap that with a better mobile card or not. I don't really deal with laptops and the such. Anyways, if you've got an intel graphics right now, try contacting Dell if they can do an upgrade for you. Otherwise hopefully someone else'll have better information.
Right click desktop, go to properties/pesonalize/whateveron7, then display options and it should be relatively clear which one.
It is the Radeon 4570 actually. But is there more than one chipset. Usually the chipset refers to the controller chips- in a desktop at least, whereas in this case it's a laptop we are talking about the graphics chipset.
They probably meant the 4570, most laptops should only have one gpu on board, no point putting an actual and a intergrated graphics.
Actually on laptops there is a very good reason for doing this: power consumption. nVidia calls this approach "Hybrid SLI," (dunno what ATI calls it, or if they even bother with this) wherein you have an integrated chipset as well as a discrete chipset as discrete chipsets even in 2d will tend to consume much more power than budget integrated chipsets for no appreciable gain.
Well, anyway, now that we've determined I have a graphics chipset that is fully compatible with the game, can you think of any other problem? I DO, yes I do have the most up to date drivers my chipset has, from Dell's website.
The graphics don't really have a lot of problems. With area maps, though. I open them and it comes to me one piece at a time, once the map is open, not all at once. This could be a symptom.
My map does that thing and I have i7 920 (OC@3.8 GHz), 6GB RAM and 2x HD 5770, although CF doesn't work with STO atm (keeps working for a a few weeks, then stops for ages, then starts. Doesn't affect any other games)
Definitely playable on this combo. Granted, it will NOT win any beauty pageants. I've been playing on my 1555 with the 4500MHD since beta. You DO want to have it on no more than recommended settings (max is waaaaayyyy too slow to be playable). The only problem I've encountered with it is that on occasion (meaning once or twice a week) it will appear to overheat and I have to do a hard reset of the laptop.
As to the OP, it's a little on the risky side (meaning, increased heat from higher performance) but you can research 3rd party gpu drivers for your graphics adapter. Omega drivers are the first ones that come to mind but there are others as well. Also, you can try downloading drivers from AMD but in either of these two cases you're treading on potentially risky grounds.
I don't know how hot yours runs but after 10 months mine is starting to run a bit hot without trying to push my gpu harder (not that I have a lot of options with mine lol). Push your gpu too hard and you run the risk of potentially causing heat related damage to your hardware.
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I'm told that my graphics chipset isn't a good one too. Where can I found out what it is actually?
Right click desktop, go to properties/pesonalize/whateveron7, then display options and it should be relatively clear which one.
It is the Radeon 4570 actually. But is there more than one chipset. Usually the chipset refers to the controller chips- in a desktop at least, whereas in this case it's a laptop we are talking about the graphics chipset.
Actually on laptops there is a very good reason for doing this: power consumption. nVidia calls this approach "Hybrid SLI," (dunno what ATI calls it, or if they even bother with this) wherein you have an integrated chipset as well as a discrete chipset as discrete chipsets even in 2d will tend to consume much more power than budget integrated chipsets for no appreciable gain.
The graphics don't really have a lot of problems. With area maps, though. I open them and it comes to me one piece at a time, once the map is open, not all at once. This could be a symptom.
As to the OP, it's a little on the risky side (meaning, increased heat from higher performance) but you can research 3rd party gpu drivers for your graphics adapter. Omega drivers are the first ones that come to mind but there are others as well. Also, you can try downloading drivers from AMD but in either of these two cases you're treading on potentially risky grounds.
I don't know how hot yours runs but after 10 months mine is starting to run a bit hot without trying to push my gpu harder (not that I have a lot of options with mine lol). Push your gpu too hard and you run the risk of potentially causing heat related damage to your hardware.