Gaming on the TX2500 - My Review

[Azuryu]

thanks alot, that was what i was looking for. Me and my fiance are thinking of both getting this and i wanted to make sure it would play wow for her, and some fps for me. Those are playable framerates, and Crysis is more than gorgeous on minimum settings.

[be77solo]

oh yeah, Crysis is definately playable on it. I usually run at 800x600 or 1024x600... 1280x800 isn't quite smooth enough for me. But, like you said, even on minimum the game still looks fantastic, especially on the smaller screen of the TX2500.

And WOW runs perfectly on it as well.

*EDIT: as a side note, heat has never been an issue on mine at all. On more than one slow rainy day I've had several hour gaming sessions playing GRID, and more than a handful of nights of playing Team Fortress 2 online for several hours without a break, and never had any hint of problems, and this is with the 2.4ghz CPU. It does get warm near the exhaust and warm wir blows out, but keep the vents on the bottom clear and play on a hard surface, and mine has never worried me playing as mentioned on high performance.

[Robtang]

I was actually more refering to long term heat issues slowing cooking the motherboard. (and has been an issue with prev versions of this tablet.)

Although I might be a bit paranoid as my asus striker cooked its northbridge recently after 8 months use and my old gaming laptop being extreamly unstable after a few years use (and it ran far cooler then the tx2500 does)

[be77solo]

dunno, I've had two of these things before, a TX1320 and a TX2110, they all threw out some heat and it's always been a question on these boards, but so far haven't had any issues... besides, seems pointless to me not to use something like this for what it's capable of... not that i want one to fry, but i won't be getting my money and satisfaction out of it if I just run in powersave mode with an undervolted cpu... to me that defeats the point as well. But, I do understand your concerns, but I'm not expecting it to last 10 years. A good two years or so and I'd be happy. But I expect she'll do fine for longer than that.

[kingster113]

If you're comparing tx2000 to tx2500, tx2500 is so much better as a part-time gaming platform. The ATI card seems not bad at all. Better than nVIDIA i would say, cuz I noticed that the heat output from tx2500 is far lesser. While my nVIDIA was striking at 95Celcius when gaming.

[Arik]

gaming works MUCH better then I expected. One of my friends came over the other day and we ended up playing Supreme Commander. He was on my desktop 4850x2 (crossfire) and my on my tx2500z. It played really well. It just felt weird going from my 22ich wide screen down to the 12.1ich laptop not easy to get used to. Didn't even have an external mouse for the laptop at the time, have one now though.

[watchdog]

Well I've been playing around with my new TX 2500 for 2 days now. I have put some of my older games on that I know would work (SimCity), but the main game I wanted to play is having issues.
Bioshock uploaded fine, and I can easily dial down all of the requirements to low. But after that, when I go to start a new game, the game always freezes before it can open up the loading screen.
I know that someone was able to get this game to work on this computer around the time it was first released, my computer specs are;
Turion duel-core 2.20 GHz
2.00 GB RAM
64 bit OS
320 GB HDD
Windows Vista home priemium SP 1

I'm just wondering if there is more I need to do to get this game to play, any advice would be most welcome.

[be77solo]

try running it in directx9 mode, it defaults to directx10 mode.... one way to do this is through the vista games tab and right clicking the icon there and selecting dx9 mode.... seems that's how i remember getting it to run.

[watchdog]

It worked! Running dX9 worked perfect, I'm finally able to play a game I purchased last year, thanks!

[be77solo]

glad it worked for ya