Why is my dell xps m1530 getting crappy performance?

I just got a Dell xps m1530 with T9300 2.5Ghz 6mb cache, and 8600gt 256mb, and 3 gb RAM.

I installed Company of Heroes, playing it on dx9, i set it all on Ultra 1280x800. And ran the campaign, and i got horrible performance, about 10-20 fps. I tried disabling and setting textures to high and turning off post procdessing and the other thing on off.

I have the latest nvidia driver 174.31

Unsurprisingly the video card sucks.Stevendawg

I know that its not a high-end card but shouldnt it be maxing out CoH?

I just got a Dell xps m1530 with T9300 2.5Ghz 6mb cache, and 8600gt 256mb, and 3 gb RAM.

I installed Company of Heroes, playing it on dx9, i set it all on Ultra 1280x800. And ran the campaign, and i got horrible performance, about 10-20 fps. I tried disabling and setting textures to high and turning off post procdessing and the other thing on off.

I have the latest nvidia driver 174.31

milan444

There's your problem.
Actually no, 8600gt is the problem.

[QUOTE="Stevendawg"]Unsurprisingly the video card sucks.milan444

I know that its not a high-end card but shouldnt it be maxing out CoH?

[QUOTE="milan444"]

I just got a Dell xps m1530 with T9300 2.5Ghz 6mb cache, and 8600gt 256mb, and 3 gb RAM.

I installed Company of Heroes, playing it on dx9, i set it all on Ultra 1280x800. And ran the campaign, and i got horrible performance, about 10-20 fps. I tried disabling and setting textures to high and turning off post procdessing and the other thing on off.

I have the latest nvidia driver 174.31

noswear

There's your problem.
Actually no, 8600gt is the problem.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=209066

He is playing WiC on medium with decent fps.. and is playing most games at max, and i also saw a video on youtube of a guy playing CoD4 with 30+ fps with this laptop

I also installed gears of war... plays kinda bad, like 15-25 fps highest,,, but when i start turning around it goes rly slow... and when i stop moving the game goes fast....

[QUOTE="Stevendawg"]Unsurprisingly the video card sucks.milan444

I know that its not a high-end card but shouldnt it be maxing out CoH?

Now way would an 8600GT max out CoH.

i also installed vegas 2, and it gets 20 fps when its on highest or lowest settings :s

Trouble with all UE3 games? you say you have low fps and games don't act like they showld?never fear Epic Forums is here.

You might want to take a look here, here and here. Yeah it's UT3 but it doesn't matter because UT3=GoW and they removed troubleshooting from GoW forums. You might find your answer there, but the game should run good on your PC (not on highest settings but still.