Age of Mythology on the Acer Aspire 1410

The Acer Aspire 1410 has a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Solo processor and GMA 4500 graphics. It handles games (at least older ones like Age of Mythology) much better than your typical netbook with an Intel Atom CPU and GMA 950 or GMA 500 graphics.

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[BradLinder]

NVIDIA ION isn't going to help with Flash video. That's a CPU problem, not a graphics processor issue. Flash doesn't use GPU acceleration yet. Right now, pretty much all netbooks and low power laptops have problems with high quality Flash video. If anything, the Acer Aspire 1410 will probably be a little better than the Samsung N510 when it comes to Flash, although the N510 may be better at games and Blu-Ray playback.

[JimKol123]

Simply backup the i845.gfx, now backup geforce3.gfx and finally rename geforce3.gfx to i845.gfx and you're done :) AoM plays with all resolutions and finest graphics. Enjoy! The *.gfx files are in the gfxconfig (and gfxconfig2 for The Titans) subfolder.

(Oh and delete or cut the old i845.gfx and make sure the new one isnt something like (2) ! )

This is the solution to this problem I did to my AoM and it is ok now :)

[stargater94]

@paulito893 wow.... i was thinking of aom / this bug fix / etc. just like 2 days ago o_o.... *bookmarks page for future reference*

[paulito893]

@stargater94 I notice this problem too, which is why I'm here... On my cheap $300 GMA500 netbook, AOM works flawlessly yet on my more powerful laptop with GMA4500 HD, I get the issue which you noticed here.

[TorontoGuy2k]

I have the acer aspire 1410 core 2 solo. The original specs had 3 GB of RAM with vista. I installed 4GB of RAM and got the free upgrade to windows 7 (back on oct 2009). I was able to run Star trek online demo.

[ThisLadChanny]

@plasmar1 He posted this comment 11month ago, the new flash wasn't out then.

[plasmar1]

@BradLinder , with the latest flash it supports use of hardware hd decoder hardware..... that does help with acceleration some....(using sony vaio p with gma500)

[Babymike360]

@nicoelson

Watch my vid

[evilsnakes1]

umm, yeah, but the thing about an rts is that the lag accumulates as more pieces come into play, so this demo says little

[nicoelson]

can u tell me where u downloaded it? i got a netbook too

[stargater94]

@My other posts -- I found the solution.... Apparently you just need to backup the i845.gfx file and replace that file with a copy of the geforce3.gfx file and it works perfectly fine...

Plus if you use the windowed option it seems to stretch it out big enough (that or the resolution is too big and is therefore why it is what it is.... point is the black area problem is fixed)