HP DM1z

[CutControl]

Hi,

Does anyone know if the dm1z is capable of playing Age of Empires 3 if you plug in an external dvd drive and run it from the CD?

Thanks.

I get about 20fps in Crysis 2. And your game is like 6 years old

[nollie]

AoE3 usually runs fine on high settings, I haven't had any issues with up to 4 players, yet to try 8 but should be okay.

I've been pretty surprised at how well the DM1z can run some of these games.

This is bit of a shot in the dark, but my Steam version of Torchlight crashes on startup and I have the same problem on my Atom 330 Acer Aspire Revo - anyone know of a fix for this at all?

[dm1user]

With QuickWeb enabled, you can go online in a matter of seconds verus waiting about 1.25 minutes for the OS to load and then go online.

Huh? Even with the stock HDD, after removing bloat and HP WIRELESS ASSASSIN my dm1 would boot, allow me to login with password, load system files and open FF4 with wireless network active and connected, all under 45 seconds. Now with an old SSD (Agility 60GB) it does this closer to 30 seconds, with the CPU now being the more prominent bottleneck.

Edit: I guess I should have read that as 1.25= 1:15 seconds, but still that's far longer than a cleaned up Win 7 install should take.

[dm1user]

I see you can order a CD from HP, may have to do that.

Don't. I did when I purchased it and the idiots still haven't sent my recovery discs I paid $20 for.

[dm1user]

Hard to say, really, because I only had the machine a few days before the BIOS update. Seems a little quieter but definitely warmer. I don't mind noise much, and I'd definitely take noise over heat that can wear down hardware over time. Thinking about punching the fans back up with the CoolSense utility.

Before BIOS update, I had to leave HP Thermal Assistant on "Quietest Mode"; after the BIOS update I can leave it on "Performance Optimized" and it is QUIETER than it was before on "Quietest Mode".

[dm1user]

After 75C the fan kicks in with full throttle. With f.12 most of the time I hear only the HDD.
Maybe you guys mistake it for the fan as I did. Mine made a hissing noise that is easily mistaken for blowing air.

My WD Scorpio Black was a screamin' demon! Now I can enjoy a totally noiseless machine most of the time, with the help of Flashblock and Adblock on FF4 keeping CPU at < 5%. I'd be willing to bet that aggressive use of Flashblock could save up to an extra hour of battery use. Just right click and whitelist the flash objects you need to view, and refresh.

[aminrazer]

Before BIOS update, I had to leave HP Thermal Assistant on "Quietest Mode"; after the BIOS update I can leave it on "Performance Optimized" and it is QUIETER than it was before on "Quietest Mode".

Same, Whats up with HP and fans?

[HI DesertNM]

Same, Whats up with HP and fans?

HP must have got a lot of complaints/returns for excessive fan noise. So they tweaked the bios and scaled back on the fan speed and cpu ratios.

[MrPhilo]

Hey guys, before I installed the AMD Update or something, I was able to tweak the CPU to 800MHz, now I don't see that option?

Did it install the wrong one or something? Im sure its correct as I selected the E-Series then E-350...

[jrdew]

Here's a new one: I just tried, for the first time, the one-click to disable the trackpad (dot in upper left corner). No luck. Nothing. Any suggestions?