mastao Posted November 2, 2007 Report Share Posted November 2, 2007 Hey peeps, I am posting this as somewhat of a last cry for help. I Bought a HP Pavilion dv9543cl Laptop a month back or so. It has an Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB Ram, and lovely Vista. Also the supposedly decent new card, 8600m GS. Right off the bat with this laptop, I noticed that performance on virtually any game I played was crap, and I tried quite a few different drivers from this site, to no avail. The main problem, was pretty much any game, ie. World Of Warcraft, was stuck with an average of about 10-15fps with either fully loaded settings, or minimal. This problem persisted through any of the drivers I installed. :) A few friends and I decided to give our old friend XP a try, thinking the Vista/8600m gs combo just wasnt rockin yet. Yet here I am with a nice copy of XP installed, and having the same damn problem. I am just so confused as of what to do, I have already searched up most topics of this card on this forums, any driver I try so far produces the same exact performance. Is there something I am overlooking? Is it possible that I just have a bogus card in my laptop? Pleeeeaassse help me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canismagnus Posted November 3, 2007 Report Share Posted November 3, 2007 I wish it could help friend. I feel your pain. I don't play WOW or have an 8600gs though. Having said that-is it just low fps or do you have graphic glitches too (artifacts, missing textures, blue screen errors, etc.)? IMHO, if it is just low fps with both OS's its probably not a hardware issue. My first lappy shipped with a bad card. The framerates were great-because it rendered everthing like crap! I also assume it's not a powermizer or 3d/2d setting problem? Have you used something like rivatuner to check the clock speed of the gpu? Definitely check to make sure its running at least at spec. If it is stuck at 200 mhz-crank it up! I don't think you should need to try too many drivers, just the latest for your OS, or as a baseline, the manufacturer's to check the default gpu clock settings from the factory. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Das_Saint Posted November 3, 2007 Report Share Posted November 3, 2007 Hey there! I feel ur pain. :) Try using the 158.45 driver. I have a similar HP laptop (DV 9685), with a 8600M GS as well, and this driver gives me the best performance, and the ability to overclock the card. Hope you find a way to solve the problem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastao Posted November 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2007 Thanks for the advice, I hope your right about it not being a harware problem!! I will check out those drivers too, it might be something to do with the gpu speed, although I dont know the first thing about editing that sort of stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixat50 Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 A few friends and I decided to give our old friend XP a try, thinking the Vista/8600m gs combo just wasnt rockin yet. Yet here I am with a nice copy of XP installed, and having the same damn problem. I have the same laptop and I'm unable to install XP because it's asking for a SATA driver, can you help? I can't find any option in the BIOS to turn on/off XP SATA compatibility mode. I tried slip-streaming dv9000t CTO XP drivers into my XP CD. Neither one worked. So can you describe how you installed XP on your machine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hitmahip Posted December 29, 2007 Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 I have the same laptop and I'm unable to install XP because it's asking for a SATA driver, can you help? I can't find any option in the BIOS to turn on/off XP SATA compatibility mode. I tried slip-streaming dv9000t CTO XP drivers into my XP CD. Neither one worked. So can you describe how you installed XP on your machine? Use this website. It tells you how to do everything here. Fantastic. http://www.nogodforme.com/HPDV6500T.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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