Toshiba 4000 4005WLMi, LX.FR406.035 manual Copyright 2003-2007 by Barry Little. All Rights Reserved

The highest resolution supported for Half-Life 2 on the Acer Ferrari 4000, is 1400x1050—a resolution high enough to get by with, without using antialiasing and with Trilinear filtering enabled—if it wasn’t for some very distracting driver-version related visual anomalies related to the HUD (Heads Up Display) and some seriously sluggish frame rates, particularly during the larger firefights with Gordon Freeman and the Resistance against the Combine troops.

As we can see from the chart, if you’re willing to live with occasional, brief moments of slowdowns and chugging when there’s a lot going on in a level, the 1024x768 resolution is a good compromise between looks and performance on the Acer Ferrari 4000—provided that you don’t get crazy with the antialiasing and anisotropic filtering settings. If frame rates are more important, the game doesn’t look that bad at 800x600.

For gaming, the Mobility Radeon X700’s 128MB of GDDR3 Video RAM and 8 parallel pixel pipelines just isn’t enough to run the latest titles at the highest possible resolutions with all the visual effects cranked to the limit. While bumping the RAM another 128MB to 256MB definitely would have improved performance and allowed

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