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    Mass Effect 3 Best Settings?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by owatch15, Mar 27, 2012.

  1. owatch15

    owatch15 Notebook Consultant

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    Has anyone got a good setup for their M14x? In terms of settings that is. I play at 1300x700 or something or the sort (A little higher) and I have to turn Dynamic shadows off to get an acceptable frame rate at minimum. Does anyone have both Anti Aliasing and Dynamic Shadows on and has a better framerate? I thought I had better performance before I updated my Verde Drivers to the latest version.
     
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    that is strange. i played the whole game at 1600x900 wtih the settings maxed out and a mild overclock to 700/1000 (latest drivers). the minimum fps was 40 and most of the time around 55
     
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    The same here.
     

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    Try white-listing the game and see if that helps out at all. Use the link in my sig if you don't know how to do it. :)
     
  5. owatch15

    owatch15 Notebook Consultant

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    I have to play low res with dynamic shadows and anti aliasing off. And it still stutters. Its strange, I can't get good performance. What drivers are you running? I have Verde 285.62 drivers. I tried the newer ones but I had a drop in performance.

    I get stuttering and lag.

    I hope its not hardware related/..



    Oh and I also have stuttering on Minecraft. And crashes with a message only telling me its saving chunks. I can't find a solution. I had problems with this before bu my drivers solved them. But it underperforms now on ME3
     
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    sounds like your running on the IGPU, Try whitelisting both programs with the guide in my sig and it might fix your issue. :)
     
  7. owatch15

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    Have no fear, it turned out performance was poor because my Nvidia control panel settings were set to those for the Skyrim optimization guide. Problem solved!
     
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    glad to see you got it fixed. :)