Right, Portal has finally appeared, with great fanfare, on my laptop. Great news, except for the minimum specs.
I'm running a 1.7Ghz centrino processor, 1Gb ram, 128mb go5650 graphics. Not a top of the range system, but I was hoping it would be able to cope with these games (It can just about play NWN2, and thats minimum is a 2.4Gz).
The game will load just fine, but while its playing, every couple of seconds, the picture and sound will freeze for about half a second, then continue with that half second missed. Which makes it extremely difficult to follow dialogue, as well as do things in action scenes.
When I first loaded the game, I went to the graphics options and changed down everything in the advanced section (reccomended had most things on medium/high) and put them to low, and kicked the resolution up to 1280x800. After encountering this problem, I tried reducing the resolution to 1024 then back to 800x600, but with no effect. Same wit turning the audio quality to low.
So, I assume I'm being held back just by the processor, so it there any way I can squeeze a little more out of it? Closing programs running in the background will help, and I've gotten rid of the ones I don't think I need. Is there anything else I can do, besides turning on the close captions, so I can at least follow whats going on?
I'm running a 1.7Ghz centrino processor, 1Gb ram, 128mb go5650 graphics. Not a top of the range system, but I was hoping it would be able to cope with these games (It can just about play NWN2, and thats minimum is a 2.4Gz).
The game will load just fine, but while its playing, every couple of seconds, the picture and sound will freeze for about half a second, then continue with that half second missed. Which makes it extremely difficult to follow dialogue, as well as do things in action scenes.
When I first loaded the game, I went to the graphics options and changed down everything in the advanced section (reccomended had most things on medium/high) and put them to low, and kicked the resolution up to 1280x800. After encountering this problem, I tried reducing the resolution to 1024 then back to 800x600, but with no effect. Same wit turning the audio quality to low.
So, I assume I'm being held back just by the processor, so it there any way I can squeeze a little more out of it? Closing programs running in the background will help, and I've gotten rid of the ones I don't think I need. Is there anything else I can do, besides turning on the close captions, so I can at least follow whats going on?
