I have tried Battlefield Vietnam (and currently have it in my drive, ) and it runs near flawless on medium high 1024x768.  Load times with 512 megs of RAM is a bit tiedious but it's the same as my desktop so it's not much of a problem for myself.  The Radeon 9600 I must say is a masterpiece for laptop computing and even Far Cry can run well via laptop.

Can't wait to upgrade though to 1 gig of RAM!

Hope this helps!

~GMCloud

Its run very good (1280x1024)on I8200 with Quadro4 700 Card but only with nocd patch

I've played it a lot, it works perfectly on my Inspiron 5150.

BF Vietnam works less well, but that's likely got more to do with it not having been patched properly yet.

Yeah, I play BF1942 on high settings, smooth 60fps and all very nice. BF Vietnam plays well too on all high settings, but for that I have AA and AF off because of the current ATI issues in general with the game.
stu

I play all the Battlefield 1942 games, and Battlefield vietnam, thankfully, 1942 is kind of old, so it'll run on nearly anything. Vietnam is newer, but still runs fine (over 30fps).

Those who have WUXGA screen (Inspiron 9100), when playing games like BF Vietnam, do you see the screen is imperfect? i.e. Black wide border on both left and right of the screen. It seems as if the game is "resizing" itself since it can not accomodate Wide Screen.

lanwarrior  yeah, probably. Because on wide screen LCD TVs, when you watch some normal channels, there are black bars on the side of the screen.

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@GMCloud27 wrote:

 The Radeon 9600 I must say is a masterpiece for laptop computing and even Far Cry can run well via laptop.

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For Far Cry if you turn AA and AF "Off" and set every options at "Low" setting in which you will lost the environment details and special effects which turn the game to no fun at all!

 

 

Message Edited by Nozomi on 06-13-2004 09:27 PM

Just for a quick reply about Far Cry,

I run the game with medium settings on all and low AA and i have yet to have a frame stutter or any lag whatsoever.  The only thing is is I run it at 1024x768x32 and any higher is where I get slowdowns.

~GMCloud

Just fixed my Issue with Battlefield Vietnam on the Inspiron 9100. All I did was update the Broadcom NIC drivers and it seemed to fix the problem. I currently run the game with Video on High and Audio on low. It seems to lag at the beginning but goes away after a few minutes.