ASUS Eee PC 1215N - Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Test

[MotweraCity]

disable the v-sync

[whyungk89]

Thank you for all the responses... I am having an another problem with selecting physx...

It always shows CPU even when I changed to ION or auto select... Why is it keep doing that? Are you having that same problem or?

[thugsnw]

@whyungk89 The ION isn't PhysX capable. Even if it is, turning it on would only make the game run slower. A lot slower.

[whyungk89]

After I upgraded bios and drivers...It got much better... Thank you very much!

I have another question... I upgraded my 1215n to 4gb ram but it says only 1.99gb is usable... why is that? what happened to other 2gbs?

[thugsnw]

@whyungk89 Oh? I thought it was around the 2.75 GB size. From what I understand, Windows 32-bit limits the usability of the RAM. It's because of the 32-bit addressing or something. If you have the 64-bit version of Windows, it's able to use the RAM's max size.

[whyungk89]

@thugsnw I first had around 2.8GB, but after I upgraded Bios and graphic driver, I only have 1.99GB now...

[thugsnw]

@whyungk89 Ahh, didn't know that. All I have are stock parts, so I have no idea the update changed something.

[fbhax55]

@thugsnw can u test bf3 and mw3

[thugsnw]

@fbhax55 Unfortunately, I don't really do game tests anymore. Besides, I don't have those two games and I don't have enough space in the HDD to accommodate them either.

[whyungk89]

I just got an Asus 1215N and I am having really low fps when I run WarCraft3... I thought 1215N is good enough to run WC3 in decent settings...How can I fix this? It only requires 600mhz cpu speed and 256 mb ram in recommended setting...

[thugsnw]

@whyungk89 Hmm, that's weird. A game that old should run in this machine perfectly. How low a frame rate are you getting? Have you tried updating your graphics drivers? You can also try to set the game launcher to Win XP compatibility.

[whyungk89]

@thugsnw My Driver version of Nvidia Ion is 8.17.12.5743... Should I upgrade to 8.17.12.6658? I could not play the game cuz of the lag... The screen was very choppy when I was running it... The detail of animation was good though...

[whyungk89]

@thugsnw I am not sure if I have the newest driver... I have the version 8.17.12.5743 right now and the version 8.17.12.6658 is available from DriverMax... Should I try to download it from the official nvidia website? If so, is it Ion (notebooks) or Ion LE (notebooks)? which one is it? The screen was very choppy when I was running the wc3... it was too laggy (unplayable)

[thugsnw]

@whyungk89 Not that. This: nvidia(dot)com/object/notebook­-win7-winvista-285.62-whql-dri­ver(dot)html replace "(dot)" with an actual dot. YT doesn't allow URLs on the comments, which is retarded.

[thugsnw]

@whyungk89 One more thing, make sure your preferred graphics processor is the NVIDIA processor. You can check if you have that set on the NVIDIA Control Panel.

[monstero111]

@thugsnw I think that Play 4 Free game dont use Intel Atom properly. While I test it it only use 30% of my Atom.

This ION 2 is a joke. The only think it can do is run Full HD movies good. The only game that run good at it is Need for Speed Underground 2. 800x600 2x Anti lasing everything maxed out. Other games need to be at minimum settings. And every game before can be played on the Integrated onboard grafics :(

[thugsnw]

@monstero111 I think running videos at 1080p is what the ION graphics card is meant for. They never advertised it for high-end gaming. But some games run at decent to good framerates at okay-ish quality. I was able to run Dead Space on mostly High settings at 1280x720 and it gives around 40 to 50+ fps, especially with AA turned off. Portal runs great, too, and maybe COD4 to some extent. TF2 and SF4 runs okay on High. Others good on Low to Medium.

[monstero111]

how is it possible? I get with my ION 2 on eee 1015pn on game BFP4F that uses BF2 engine only 9-20 fps ?

Any extra nvidia driver ? My netbook should be much better. Shows me on 7 4.8 points at game as result by windows benchmark.

;(

[thugsnw]

@monstero111 Why, what framerates do you get in BC2? I also tried the P4F of Battlefield before, and it wasn't as smooth as this. Not sure if it improves with the driver I have now, which could be old because it's been a while since I updated it. Presently, my "Gaming" score in Windows Experience is 5.3, I think. This netbook also runs at 1.8 GHz dual-core, while yours (I think) runs at 1.66 GHz. Can't say if that small difference makes an impact, though.

[abatsekki]

how can you get that fps-calculator or that to the right up corner?

[thugsnw]

@abatsekki I used Fraps. With that software, you can record videos of your gameplay and place framerate counters at various corners of the screen.

[bing2010able]

put the frame persecond to 1 is better...

[thugsnw]

@bing2010able Whut.

[desertstryker1234]

TWEWY* sorry

[thugsnw]

@desertstryker1234 Yeah, that game wins no matter how you rearrange the letters. :)

[pascalschulzde]

@thugsnw how do you get Windows for Eee PC? i have linux and cant play games

[thugsnw]

@pascalschulzde This computer already came with Windows 7. You can try installing one on yours.

[pascalschulzde]

@thugsnw and how ? without a cd deck

[thugsnw]

@pascalschulzde This computer doesn't have an optical drive either. You can get an external optical drive just as I have. Not sure if installation via USB flash drive is possible either. You can Google about that.

[pascalschulzde]

@thugsnw ok thx i will try it maybe i can play games too xD GTA 4 im coming xD

[thugsnw]

@pascalschulzde Hate to burst your bubble, but I doubt you'd be able to play GTA4 at all without a decent video card (and pretty good processor to boot). It won't even run smoothly at low settings in this computer.

[desertstryker1234]

TWETY for the win :)

[barbazyaka]

please try sims 3 please please please make video and i will subscribe and tell people to subscribe please please because i want to buy one only because sims 3 please and i dont know will it work or not please thanks

[jadchaar713]

looks pretty laggy

[thugsnw]

@jadchaar713 Of course it is. What would you expect from an Atom-powered computer running a 2010 shooter? Come on. At least it can run and it's somewhat playable.

[7Sn1per]

Also, try Crysis.

[thugsnw]

@7Sn1per I don't thing it'll be pretty. Haha. I tried MW2 and it didn't work as well as I hoped. Crysis is gonna be tougher. I might do TF2 and Portal one of these days, though (since I got them free on Steam, hehe).

[7Sn1per]

Of all things you play one of the LAGGIEST missions?

[thugsnw]

@Beastman651 Ordinary netbooks can run PSX emulators really well. Yeah, but modern games, not so much -- maybe not at all because most of them only use shader model 2.0.

[BlueNinja1212]

Dell Inspiron Laptop with Intel ® Core N5110 TM i5-2410M 2.30GHz, 3GB, 320GB, nVidia GeForce GT 525M 1GB ?

can these specs run the game?

[thugsnw]

@BlueNinja1212 Definitely. Most of your specs are higher than mine. Your video card won't be bottlenecked by the CPU either, as it is in my case, and it's a lot more capable than my ION (since this is only a rebranding of a 9400m, which is an older technology).

[BlueNinja1212]

@thugsnw what would be the framerate in med settings?

[thugsnw]

@BlueNinja1212 Maybe 60 or even higher. Heck, you may even get to crank it up to High and get the same or a framerate close to it.

[Alquaeda1000]

could battlefield bad company 2 work on asus x53S please answer this

[thugsnw]

@Alquaeda1000 I don't know. Providing the specs would be helpful.

[thugsnw]

@tordvillegas Yes, but maybe worse than mine since your graphics card isn't dedicated. Your CPU outperforms mine by a mile, though. I only have the Atom, and even if it's dual-core, it's really meant for light tasks. Without the dedicated ION (or 9400m) graphics card, it probably won't be able to run Bad Company 2 at all.

[onlinegamer26]

can it run on amd e350 1.6 ghz and ati radeon 6310 graphic card?

[thugsnw]

@onlinegamer26 Not sure if this is what you're talking about:

youtube(dot)com/watch?v=wQx-Jz­1HWjI (replace "dot" with an actual dot).

If it is, then it looks like it. If you're not satisfied with the framerate, you can always try lowering the video settings.

[SOxxLegit]

@onlinegamer26 on very low about 30 frames i think

[onlinegamer26]

@SOxxLegit thanks

[robbynew]

how do you change the settings to tripple buffering and maximum prerendered frames to 5 and where do you do this.

[thugsnw]

@robbynew You change it in your nVIDIA Control Panel.

[villagewhore911]

Is the 1215b better

[thugsnw]

@villagewhore911 Well, I'm not really sure. I think 1215B has its processor weakened a bit, and changed to an AMD, compared to the N model. The graphics card is ATI and has DirectX 11 support. Other specs are pretty much the same with the N. Processor and graphics card are widely preferred, but the margin in performance between them may be narrow to negligible. I dunno, try watching YouTube vids about them.

[iSick1e]

Wow holy shit never really get to see a description with every setup option available nice :D

[villagewhore911]

When are they gonna make a succesor to the 1215n?

[thugsnw]

@villagewhore911 Erm, they already did. It's the 1215B. Which features a dual-core AMD plus an ATI graphics card that's DirectX 11 capable.

[bubbltaco]

the world ends with you :)

[thugsnw]

@bubbltaco Fantastic game that was, and still is.

[darkstarsergio]

omg very low fps but playable nice

[thugsnw]

@darkstarsergio Yeah. But future gaming netbooks would probably only improve the game's performance.

[13Sakke13]

The low voltage i3/i5/i7 UM

[thugsnw]

@13Sakke13 Ahh, so that happened. I'm really not that into PC so it wouldn't be a surprise if I don't know these things. Thanks for the info, man.

[13Sakke13]

@thugsnw You can find a lot on notebookcheck :D

[thugsnw]

@13Sakke13 All right.  Thanks. I'll check that out later. ;)

[tonef82]

Thanks for the report. I had no knowledge of ION 2 prior to watching. :)

[thugsnw]

@tonef82 It's not exactly "ION 2". It's pretty much the first ION with little additions that you probably won't notice. However, I've been reading things about the first ION being able to run games a bit smoother than this one. That was then; not sure how the two compare right now.

[13Sakke13]

@thugsnw The 2nd ION is a bittle bottlenecked by PCI-e 1x when the ION 1 had 1.6x.

[thugsnw]

@13Sakke13 Guess that explains it.  Thought both have 1x and the earlier version just had more updates to make it more optimized. 4x was probably too much for this netbook to have.

[13Sakke13]

@thugsnw ULV CPU + ION / I3 U version + ION would also have been a much better combination giving more performance.

[thugsnw]

@13Sakke13 All right, I won't pretend I understood what you just said, so I'll just agree with you. Hehe.

[13Sakke13]

@thugsnw Lol I meant that if they would produce these ION netbooks with ULV or i3 processors instead of the slow atoms there would be a major performance improvement :)

[thugsnw]

@13Sakke13 Ohhh, yeah they're processors. Thought they were something else that could optimize the ION graphics card. Well, that's a given. But they may no longer be considered as netbooks as they'll consume more power.

[13Sakke13]

@thugsnw The SU7300 would only use 10W and the Atom uses around 18W. But the Atom is fine for daily tasks, the ulv processors would give it a pretty big boost (mostly in gaming and cpu asking tasks).

[thugsnw]

@13Sakke13 This is the first time I've actually heard of that. Which notebooks use them?

[13Sakke13]

@thugsnw I don't think they produce (they do but not for recent notebooks anymore) them anymore, but in benchmarks the dual core SU7300 got twice as much points as the atom D525. It was used in 11.6" and 13.3" notebooks.

[thugsnw]

@13Sakke13 Why'd they stop production? Too expensive?

[thugsnw]

@Playstation3Gamer10 I don't think that's even meant for gaming, looking at its specs. Integrated graphics can't handle games as well, or as efficiently, as dedicated graphics cards like NVIDIA and ATI. Maybe that's the problem.

[LedZeppelin4ACDC]

why is only half the screen matte?? im going to get this but why it looks like it could get annoying...

[thugsnw]

@LedZeppelin4ACDC I know. Glossy screens weren't nice before; they aren't nice now. Wonder why manufacturers still use them in computers (is it cost-effective?), or any electronic device whose screens get the most attention.

[LedZeppelin4ACDC]

@thugsnw I agree buy why is the outline of the screen kinda wierd? Around the edges of the screen it looks like a frame or something that is gloss or matte or a different type of screen. Why?

[thugsnw]

@LedZeppelin4ACDC Oh, that's my fault. I bought a screen protector, but they don't a size that perfectly fits the screen so I got a bigger one. Thought I could cut it, but it's harder than it looks. So I just pasted it around the frame. Since the front lid is beveled, I got that effect. Would rather have that than have the screen exposed to dust and dirt. I'll fix it eventually... I guess. Hehe.

[LedZeppelin4ACDC]

@thugsnw OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHhhhhhh.... Okay dokay than lol

[92310CAMILLE]

dude, your also using your fraps...why did you still using your web cam...

[thugsnw]

@92310CAMILLE First, it's not a webcam. It's a digital still camera with a video feature (like most digicams have today). Second, I ONLY use Fraps to display the framerate the game's getting. If I use it to record the gameplay as well, it will away processing priority for the game, thus, slowing the game down and display inaccurate framerates. This video was meant to show the actual framerate people can get with this game using the same computer at the settings I had.

[thugsnw]

@311XtremeGaming Nice. I guess there's your answer Mr. Coddern. Yeah, I've read MP uses less of the computer's power since it doesn't need to run any AI. Thanks for sharing. :D

[MiggyCon]

thank god they made a matte version

[thugsnw]

@Coddern Hmm... I'm not sure. But seeing that the 311 only has a single core and slightly lower clock rate, you might have to lower some of the settings even more to get at the framerate I had. The game would still look gorgeous anyway. Not sure if this game has a demo, but you could try that if it does so you could see for yourself.

[cirion66]

I am thinking about buyign this one BUT! Why the fucking hell do they put shiny LCD into new notebooks?

[thugsnw]

@cirion66 Maybe they want it to look shiny. Anyway, I also had a badly-placed screen protector on, so that doesn't help either.

[Griesmayer]

native resolution is 1366 x 768, mate.

[thugsnw]

@Griesmayer I meant for the game. For Xbox 360/PS3 this runs at 720p.

[queefinout]

thanks for the video. I and im sure alot of other 1215n users appreciate it, keep it up with the videos! Have you tried online multiplayer? if so how does it run? I really want a good mulitplayer game to play on the go.

[thugsnw]

@queefinout Nope, haven't tried multiplayer yet. Not sure if I want to, though. I'm not really an FPS gamer. Other players would most likely murder me, then I'd be kicked out of servers. I'd just play the campaign for the sheer experience. Online play should work fine, as long as you have a speedy connection. We may see improvement in framerate when future driver updates get released. Gonna feature Call of Duty 4 next.

[JinKazama92]

@queefinout

Performance on multiplayer is always better than singleplayer.

Singleplayer AI uses twice the power of the cpu than multiplayer.