Hi I just bought a Dell precision M90 notebook. When running max 8 it felt a bit slower than I expected. So I compared it with one of my friend’s desktops. Even though my notebook has a better graphics card, my max starts lagging at 1 mill poly, when my friend’s desktop doesn’t. Both are on OpenGL, and i even changed the settings on my Quadro to fit 3ds max’s. But it still doesnt work. Anyone know what’s going on, and how to fix it?
M90
Windows XP
Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHz
2 gigs of Ram
Nvidia Quadro FX 3500m
Friends Desktop
Windows XP
Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz ( or something like that)
2 gigs of ram
Nvidia Geforce 7600 GS
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Even though my notebook has a better graphics card, my max starts lagging at 1 mill poly, when my friend’s desktop doesn’t.
Are you sure the quadro is better (a 8800 is really faster than a 3500m, 7600 compares a bit badly but should be about par in many respects, but not all by any means). Are you running the right drivers (i find that dell ships the worst drivers in general all my customers who are on dell for some reason always have drivers that suck)? Also all the m models are in general slower then the non mobile ones, slightly.