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  • Anyone have a Dell XPS Gen2 laptop?

    I just bought a Dell XPS Gen2 laptop. 2.13ghz, 80gb, 1gb memory, Geforce 6800 256mb vid card...

    I have messed with the color and video settings, but its over my head. There is a million different settings!! Quake in general looks very dark(yes I turned up the brightness on both the laptop and in quake)...My screen turns dark red and I cant see much at all when in a battle while playing. Other then this, it is unbelievably fast and smooth when playing. Does anyone out there use one of these laptops to play? How are you adjusting the settings? All websites, and everything else is nice & bright and full of colors.

    Also I bought call of duty 4, I installed it on my old laptop (Dell 1150) but it would not play it because of my graphics card not being good enough. I then tryed to install it on this new XPS and it wont even play the CD install disc at all? Do these new game CD's only allow you to install them on 1 computer? lol...Its wierd, all other CDs, dvds, etc..play just fine on this XPS and the call of duty cd works fine in my 1150 laptop?

  • #2
    Originally posted by Quazy View Post
    Dell
    That's the problem.
    AS for the screen being red during battles, that's an effect in Quake when you get hurt. You probably had it turned off in your autoexec or something with some weird setting.

    As for the COD4 disc not working, try when you put it in wait for 30 seconds or so and go to start < my computer < whatever drive letter the disc drive is (probably D), right click on it and select autoplay. Or right click explore and look for something like setup.exe.
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    • #3
      I don't have anything useful to say regarding the non-Quake problems, but if you use ProQuake 3.99q and don't use the -gamma parameter, you can type "contrast 2" in the console and Quake will be VASTLY brighter. (default contrast is 1).
      Quakeone.com - Being exactly one-half good and one-half evil has advantages. When a portal opens to the antimatter universe, my opposite is just me with a goatee.

      So while you guys all have to fight your anti-matter counterparts, me and my evil twin will be drinking a beer laughing at you guys ...

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      • #4
        Originally posted by the_f0qer View Post
        Dell, That's the problem.
        Dell's are not bad. I've had this Dell Dimension E510 for several years now and it has never once gave me any kind of problem. How can you blame Dell for something that happens in-game?

        But uh, I've always heard laptops are not meant for gaming of any kind so, maybe we do have a problem.

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        • #5
          Yeah Dells are fine if you don't plan on doing a major upgrade. A lot of time the BIOS is locked to only certian processors. You have to look up your model number or something so you can see your list of "upgrade paths". Not only that but when you first get any prebuilt it is loaded up with so much crap it takes like 10 minutes to boot up and has like 60 processes running. >_<
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          • #6
            Ahh I got COD4 working. I had to run it using my external usb port DVD burner...lol I still dont understand why COD4 wont even try to work and doesnt even show its in the DVD/CDROM drive on the laptop when all other CD/DVD's work just fine. Anyhoo, I got it working and the graphics are amazing!!!. I also got the colors working a little better(in quake) by clicking the small box that says "run with 256 colors" in the properties on the glpro icon. lol

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            • #7
              Ya, laptops are not really meant for gaming.

              If you read the small print on gamebox nowadays you will see that it is written that systems with integrated graphics or some laptops may not work. Therefore they are not supported, you buy at your own risk if you plan to play on those systems.

              On the other hand, if you buy a gaming laptop that may be a different story. Alienwares are one kind but they are extremely expensive.

              Not very long ago, I got a Toshiba laptop AMD dual core running at 2GHZ, 2gig ram 200GB HD and 256MB ATI vidcard. It has Vista on it. I have not gotten to play with it much but when I do all the updates and finish configuring everything, I pray and hope I will not have any issues with it.

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              • #8
                There were some reported issues with the disks and installing COD4 that I heard about, you are not alone on that one, I am happy that you got it resolved and are enjoying it.

                I expect a full report on COD4 when you are done with it or after you spend some time with it. I definitely want to get my paws on it but a short SP experience turns me off, even though I heard the MP component is very strong. A SP mode with decent length is a requirement for me. Tell me how long it took you to beat the SP mode after you are finished with it.

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                • #9
                  Hey Tia! Thx for chiming in. This is a XPS Gen2 gaming laptop. Its loaded. Heres more info. on it: http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/dell...4.html?tag=box I did ALOT of research on laptops and the only ones that I could find that were just as good or better(I read a million reviews) was the alienware laptops, but they are twice the price.

                  The Video card is not integrated and can be upgraded which is awesome. You need atleast 1gb memory + a 256mb vid card just to play COD4. The graphics look so real that it is like you are really in the game....but then again, Ive never really played anything else but quake 1 for the last decade. lol

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                  • #10
                    Hey, I hate to burst your excitement bubble but have you noticed when this laptop was released and reviewed? February 2005, that makes it 3 years old.

                    How much did you pay for it? I hope you did not pay the 3K as the review site suggests. I also hope you bought it form a trustworthy source or Dell.com.

                    Also, it has a single Centrino mobile processor, I have a double core AMD Turion 64bit. In my opinion, AMD is more performant, and once I went to it, I never looked back on Intel. Aim for double core processors, single cores just do not cut it anymore, and the price for laptops with them dropped dramatically.

                    And the 80GB, just won't suffice nowadays. That HD is too small. I have 2 HDs in my home computer, one is 80 the other one is 250, the 80 one, now is down to 13 in just 6 months - I reformatted.

                    Here is my laptop's specs, the overview is the first tab.
                    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....#productdetail

                    My laptop is one step down from that one, also I noticed CNET reviews it in a very monotone way:
                    http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/tosh...5.html?tag=sub

                    Yet, the reviews on Best Buy are all postive from buyers and the ones from Amazon are excellent as well:
                    http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Satell...3223436&sr=8-4

                    The only drawback is that my powerful laptop is very power hungry therefore eats a lot of battery fast. It is not a problem for me because I just want to use it at work where I can plug it in, but if you take yours on the road then that might be a problem.

                    Your video card is nice, memory wise, but 3 years later a lot has changed in video technology. Sure you can upgrade it, but opening a laptop is a bitch - at the high risk of damaging it - you have to get behind the keyboard - and the card is going to be expensive and having a professional do it for you is just going to cost you more.

                    I suggest you pack it up and return it. If you live near a local Best Buy, they have very good deals on laptops and you can get something very good for around 800 dollars. Not to mention, if you have any problems with it or you do not like it you can return it in 14 days for refund or exchange, no questions asked.

                    Mines, believe it or not cost 800 but I got a 50 dollar back rebate.
                    Last edited by Paradi$e; 02-16-2008, 11:52 PM.

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                    • #11
                      Question, how does COD4 run, smooth and fast? Did you crank all the settings all the way up? How does it perform then?

                      I ask this because my desktop is similar to your laptop only that I got an AMD processor and 1.5GB ram.

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                      • #12
                        COD4 plays great on my uncles Pentium D 3.4 (pentium D's suck anyway) with 2GB DDR667 and a 7950GT cranked all the way up
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                        • #13
                          How long did it take you to finish the SP, if you say above 15hrs exploring everything I am copping it! :d I tend to play SP games slow, gawking at the graphics and all the textures from all the possible angles.

                          Also is it outside a lot or inside as well, does it have structures such as houses, complexes, etc.? How do the levels look like? Are they diversified - meaning different from each other - and not all looking alike?

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                          • #14
                            I have no idea myself. My experiance with COD4 was pretty bad cause I jumped straight into multiplayer on someone else's setup, the controls were all weird and the sensitivity was mad high so I got pwnt :/

                            I take it you've played Oblivion? :p
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                            • #15
                              I have it for the 360 but I did not get further then the character creation part lol, simply because of my lack of time. I have not touched my console for a while now.

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