Samsung Series 7 Gamer NP700G7C with AMD Radeon HD 7970M/Geforce GTX 675M

[John Ratsey]

Anyone? Also can someone tell me why I can't post in the WTB section yet? Post limit?

If you mean the Marketplace then the rules are here.

John

[kingbobo]

any word on when a 7970m version will pop up?

[hfm]

any word on when a 7970m version will pop up?

No word yet.

[HoppityBob]

As this been a problem from day one, if not then it could be you are using a different AHCI driver than the one Samsung used, that's assuming you did re-install in AHCI mode, you can't just change to AHCI mode if you installed in a different mode, unless it was raid mode. I haven't got this laptop yet, so I'm not familiar with the bios, but it sounds like it's a laptop that still has IDE mode, if that's the case you'd need more than likely to have to disable the IDE driver in the win7 registry, then reboot Win7 in AHCI mode.

It took me a while to work that out ! It's been several years since I've really used Windows or played around with h/w.

I still don't know why the original Home Premium died. I did nothing with drivers bar update to a newer Nvidia one. The only other changes were Windows Updates.

I did a fresh install with Win7 Ultimate. I now know I should have probably changed the bios back to AHCI before doing so. However I did find some info from MS about changing back which involved a Registry hack..

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | System | CurrentControlSet | Services | Msahci
Locate the key named START in the right panel
Set the Value to 0

Doing this and changing the bios still resulted in the blue screen despite several reboots and changes, but I eventually found another key which did actually work..

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\IastorV

Rebooting with this one caused a few drivers to install and all has been well since.

[Wanger]

Been lurking around in this forum for a few days now and I have a few questions for you guys. I'm a noob when it comes to laptops in general and the G7C is my first serious purchase, so forgive me if I'm asking silly questions lol.

1. I've been playing D3 for a few days on this machine now on more or less the highest settings. The FPS seems fine until I join a friend and screen gets a bit cluttered with mobs. At that point I often experience a huge drop in fps and 1 second screen freezes here and there. Is this normal?

2. Notice the fan on the right, which I guess is connected to the CPU, barely blows out any air at all, even when running games for hours.

3. The GPU seems to be running at 68-70 degrees c, even with a cooling pad. Does this seem high? I using the coolmaster notepal U3

[hfm]

Been lurking around in this forum for a few days now and I have a few questions for you guys. I'm a noob when it comes to laptops in general and the G7C is my first serious purchase, so forgive me if I'm asking silly questions lol.

1. I've been playing D3 for a few days on this machine now on more or less the highest settings. The FPS seems fine until I join a friend and screen gets a bit cluttered with mobs. At that point I often experience a huge drop in fps and 1 second screen freezes here and there. Is this normal?

2. Notice the fan on the right, which I guess is connected to the CPU, barely blows out any air at all, even when running games for hours.

3. The GPU seems to be running at 68-70 degrees c, even with a cooling pad. Does this seem high? I using the coolmaster notepal U3

1. This might be network not your hardware, D3 is always online even when you are by yourself. Not sure why one more player would cause issues. Did you try turning down to a lower detail and it went away?

2. CPU on mine runs cooler than gpu. But only is the gpu older step process but works harder during games.

3. That temp is fine.

[Wanger]

Thanks for the info HFM

I've tried lowering the shadow detail a bit but that doesn't seem to help. It just seemed like the reviews and posts I've read all say they run the game at the highest settings with no problems at all. I don't think its a network issue because I have a friend with a much older laptop playing the game (at much lower settings) at my place and he doesn't experience any problems or slow downs at all.

Is there a program I can use that can benchmark the laptop/gpu?

[Linkent]

Been playing D3 on this too..
It is problem from diablo3 as many mention in bnet forum..

Happen on single player mode too..
2 fix recommended are
1. Move the mpq file to a 16gb flashdisk and link it.(search diablo3 hdd stuttering)

2. Set render=0(nvidia control panel).
Background fps uncheck.
V-sync on.

[Wanger]

Nice, I will give the fixes a try. Thanks!!!

[Shuru421]

this or the sager 9150?