The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    M14x experiencing low fps

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by excalaver, Jun 28, 2011.

  1. excalaver

    excalaver Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    4
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi all, im currenly using a 1600resolution, 3gb GT555m, 6gb ram model.

    I have problems running sc2 on high settings. i get <30 fps. i can only reach 50-60 fps on low settings. I already added sc2 on the whitelist. Is there anything else which is wrong?
     
    excalaver, Jun 28, 2011
    #1
  2. smokingjam

    smokingjam Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    52
    Messages:
    380
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    31
    have you got anything running in the background? i had prob running crysis 1 and i had something running in the background.

    just thought of something that helped me i uninstalled intel storage or whatever its called. this helped me out loads!
     
    smokingjam, Jun 28, 2011
    #2
  3. niko2021

    niko2021 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    93
    Messages:
    592
    Likes Received:
    6
    Trophy Points:
    31
    You can update the driver, lower some settings, lower resolution, though i wouldnt do that since i paid extra for a 1600x900 reso :p. You can do an overclock via Msi Afterburner at your own risk. Fairly simple. Doesn't make a huge performance boost though. the gt555m is a great card, but it really can't play a lot of games maxed out with good results. Here are the fps from notebookcheck.com

    StarCraft 2 (2010)
    low:
    198.4 234.2 ~ 216 fps Compare
    med.:
    57.5 62.6 ~ 60 fps Compare
    high:
    42.4 46.2 46.4 ~ 45 fps Compare
    ultra:
    22.3 23.9 24 ~ 23 fps Compare

    so you seem to be in the normal range.
     
    niko2021, Jun 28, 2011
    #3
  4. CGSDR

    CGSDR Alien Master Race

    Reputations:
    285
    Messages:
    1,477
    Likes Received:
    10
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Have you try whitelist the program from the Nvidia Control Panel? Because as I know most game if install they will not detect the Nvidia GPU and they will instead run on the integrated GPU, so u have to force your game to run on Nvidia GPU pretty on every game u install.
     
    CGSDR, Jun 29, 2011
    #4
  5. teamjawbox

    teamjawbox Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    One thing you might want to try is making sure that your refresh rate is set to 60hz. I had a similar issue when I recently received my m14x. I loaded up SC2 right away and the performance was very very lackluster. After some browsing around I noticed that my refresh rate was set to 40hz instead of 60hz. I'm assuming that was for battery life? I'm not sure, but either way I changed it to the normal 60hz and, bam! The performance is great!
     
    teamjawbox, Jun 29, 2011
    #5
  6. alroar

    alroar Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    126
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    did you check your windows energy profile is set on "High Energy" ?
    Balanced throttles the gpu down.
     
    alroar, Jun 29, 2011
    #6
  7. Elvz2593

    Elvz2593 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    12
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    what is the fps when running other games? It could be the game, but my years old desktop runs sc2 alright.
     
    Elvz2593, Jun 29, 2011
    #7
  8. kayow

    kayow Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    11
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I have sort of the same "problem"... I get like 50+ fps or something on 1920x1080 ultra on my desktop while if I put ultra on my m14x it kills the computer on 1600x900 but I really have like no idea about computers, performance etc but what is supposedly the stronger system: m14x or i7-950, 6 gig 1333 mhz ram and nvidia gtx 260 desktop?
     
    kayow, Jun 30, 2011
    #8
  9. clienterror

    clienterror Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    22
    Messages:
    275
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    30
    In SC2 with a 765 OC I'm getting like 50+ FPS on Ultra. And OCing your graphics card gives you about a 20% increase in performance and I'm sitting at about 75c (I just have it sitting on my desk, no cooler or it propped up) for a max temp on the GPU which is well within the safety zone.
     
    clienterror, Jun 30, 2011
    #9
  10. nkdv

    nkdv Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    60
    Messages:
    235
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I would believe the CPU and RAM[higher freq] of the m14x is more powerful than your desktop's, but the card on your desktop is better than the GT555M.
     
    nkdv, Jul 4, 2011
    #10