Homefront Rage!

AirCanuckAirCanuck London, Ontario New
edited October 2011 in Gaming
SO!

I heard homefront wasn't great, but I had wanted to play it. Then it came on sale yesterday, so I bought it from Steam. NOW then. I just bought this Sony Vaio about a month and a half ago, I was under the understanding that it had plenty of muscle, and could handle pretty much any game out there.

Imagine my frustration when I try to play this game and it runs like a choppy sack of shite even with the graphics turned all the way down!

What can I do?

I am running: (just using the basic information thing from windows)
- 4GB RAM
- Intel Core i5 CPU M460 2.53 GHz
- display is 1600x900
- 500 GB HDD
- Windows 7 home premium
- NVIDIA GeForce 310M GPU

Now, I thought that this was a decent machine to run games... halp? Anything I can do!?

thanks!
AC

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2011
    The 310M is not a good GPU. It's just an average GPU they'd stick in a machine for word processing, basic web browsing, etc. There is nothing you can do.
  • BasilBasil Nubcaek England Icrontian
    edited October 2011
    AirCanuck wrote:
    I was under the understanding that it [...] could handle pretty much any game out there.
    Evidently not with the quality level you're wanting.

    The 310M isn't a flying machine but if you turn down the eye candy you should get by.

    Example FPS at the bottom here.
  • AirCanuckAirCanuck London, Ontario New
    edited October 2011
    Thrax wrote:
    The 310M is not a good GPU. It's just an average GPU they'd stick in a machine for word processing, basic web browsing, etc. There is nothing you can do.

    hm. Well, I'm pissed.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited October 2011
    Your other specs are okay, but the 310M is not going to cut it for that game. Sorry, there is not much you can do with a laptop at this point.

    Just to be 100% certain, boot into your BIOS settings and make sure your 310m is sharing as much memory as possible (I'm not sure if thats the case for this particular laptop graphics solution, but often there is a setting in the BIOS for this). If you can bump up the amount of shared memory try that and see if it performs better at low settings.
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited October 2011
    C:\Users\admin\Documents\My Games\HOMEFRONT\GCGame\Config

    edit CGengine
    ctrl-f (to find)
    D3D (enter)
    AllowD3D10=FALSE (change this from TRUE to FALSE)
    ========

    ^Force the game to run in directx9. It should help a bit, but don't expect the world.
  • ErrorNullTurnipErrorNullTurnip Illinois Icrontian
    edited October 2011
    Also try setting the resolution to something lower than 1600x900.
  • AirCanuckAirCanuck London, Ontario New
    edited October 2011
    I took the suggestions into account. Couldn't change any memory settings in the BIOS menu, but using a lower resolution and running in DX9 seems to have helped somewhat. Blast it all.
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