Lenovo W520 Owner's Thread

Which menu are you talking about? By the way, how do i make the play, stop, etc.. func keys works with iTunes, VLC, MPC..?

About using a 3G Sim : I found out that ExpressCard with 3G Sim slot exist, it might be better to buy that rather than a PCIe card which cost muchhh more, but not sure of the result?

And i don't know what's wrong with IE9 but it's not working well, taking about 13% of the processor, making it freeze while i have only 4 tabs with apparently no heavy flash or even none at all, while on my desktop with a Core2Duo (supposed to be 7x slower) it never does..?

 

Ok, Crucial M4 is on the way, i'll have it in my hands tomorrow! I'm not testing the DisplayPort connection, at first i could duplicate screen with a Sony FHDTV but not anymore? When i select duplicate now, it just turns off the TV...

EDIT: If i start the thinkpad on "Discrete Graphics", no problem, duplicate screen works, if i start on Integrated, i think it worked too... So again the Optimus ! I found out to figure out anyway (still a pain, ask me if interested).

But THIS is with last driver from NVIDIA WEBSITE. If using Lenovo's, none of the mode worked! Tomorrow i'll do a fresh install on the SSD, AFAIK installing the optimus driver package from Lenovo's is enough, no need to install their Intel HD & Quadro drivers, as they seems included in the Optimus package? This is not very clear...

 

I meant the ingame menu screen, so it doesn't accidentally issue a command you don't want it to. iTunes doesn't like global hotkeys, VLC probably can but I've never tried, same for MPC, foobar2k will by default (I think, I may have enabled it and forgotten about it), and Winamp has a checkbox for it.

As for the IE issue, check your addons.


Anyone else running the BF3 beta?

I'm getting 30FPS +5 (in the subway), -5 (outside) at 1920x1080, all medium, and with a GPU overclock from 550/900/1100 to 683/1100/1365.

HWMonitor showed a max of 92C, which is the highest I've seen so far, and I'm running level 64 fan. Granted, I play a few hours straight at a time...

 

Nice ! Don't cook that cpu tho' lol

let us know how it goes....

btw real 'fresh' install or from lenovo backup discs/image ?

I am still waiting for my W520 to ship

Will order a M4 when it does....

 

No it's my own Windows 7 Ultimate SP1! I did it (on Crucial M4 so), now installing apps. Sadly i have to report that i had to install some of the Lenovo apps more than once cause it didn't work (?).

It seems the best to do is just install the network drivers and update with the Thinkvantage Update System. Still i'm being annoyed ATM, i don't see the optimus icon in the tray and don't find the place to activate it ?

Last time, it came itself after the driver install... I'll come back later to extend my report (if there's more to say)!

 

makes sure you have it set in bios as well..

 

I haven't seen an Optimus tray icon so far, just the standard NVidia one.

An aside,
Has anyone noticed that the memory clock and shader clock sliders in GPUTool don't seem to actually overclock? The stability test FPS only changes with GPU clock.

 

Dang! That's hot. How playable is it at 25-35 fps? I start getting annoyed at anything less than 30.

 

I'm used to lag; played through Crysis on 18FPS average on the T400. 30 is fine for me, it goes to 45 if I shrink to 1366x768 windowed. It's the stupid lag that makes me angry. An apparent seven shots from a sniper rifle one meter away won't frag the guy. RAGE.

That said, the higher resolution really helps when you're trying to identify a prone enemy far far away as sniper rounds start raining down on you.

 

Well, let me mention i don't even have the NVIDIA tray icon..! Where's the place you can enable/disable it? And how did you install video drivers?

The W520 drivers page gives 3 package : Intel drivers, Nvidia drivers, and Optimus drivers. The one you're supposed to install depends on which BIOS video mode you chose.

So if you use Optimus, you're supposed to install Optimus driver (should say package) only, that's what the Thinkvantage updater tells you anyway. And that's what i did.

And that's how i don't get neither Control panel nor Optimus tray icon! Last time i guess i install the Nvidia package and that's why i got it. If you could confirm...

OH! About the M4 SSD: You see the rubber pieces around the HDD? With them, the M4 hardly fit. It'll be hard (maybe dangerous for connectors?) to put it out.