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    [M17x R4] Gaming performance for FSX

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by thigomes95, Jun 9, 2012.

  1. thigomes95

    thigomes95 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well, I got my AMD HD Radeon 7970 working thanks to you guys, but I have a doubt about the game performance I'm having.

    I installed Flight Simulator X and put everythng on high settings but I'm getting 14 fps as lowest, and it is too low considering it's flight simulator and people get 60 of fps playing BF and COD.

    What do I have to do to get crazy fps?

    Do I have to do anything to raise the frames of the games?
     
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    Robdd1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hopefully in the next few days I should be loading up fsx and I shall post my results. FSX is still a demanding game on system resources, addons can also knock the frame rates down.

    Have you tried lowering some of the more fps killing settings and what results are you getting?

    running on the 7970m card and not the HD card?

    Also are other games slower than expected?

    I have also been playing il2 Cliffs of Dover, demanding on most desktops until they tidy up the graphics engine. For some reason on my M4 I am getting pretty much 60fps in the air (vsync on) and 100 odd (vsync off). Drops a little over cities and smoke kills it right down sometimes. Running on a mix of high, medium and low settings .... Looks great
     
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    San Pedro Notebook Geek

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    Any of you flight simmers run Rise of Flight on your 7970m machines?

    Glad to hear it works well with CLOD. Will re-install that garbage when I get my 7970m and 1c release a patch!
     
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    Waiting to transfer rise of flight over from my old laptop, that ran it fine so should have no issues on the m17.

    Tweaking DCS A10 and Black Shark at the moment. They are still taking up a lot to keep going at a good fps speed.
     
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    thigomes95 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well, I haven't tried running in low settings yet, but when I do I'll let you guys know, and also I've only installed FSX so far. Later on, I'll install The Sims 3 and see how it goes.

    Did anyone of you guys had to overclock your machine to get a good frame rate?

    You guys don't have your machines overclocked, do you?
     
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    It doesn't matter how hard you push your GPU, this game is constrained by your CPU. Look at the links I posted. The guy with an i5 2600k at 4.6 ghz and GTX 570 is dipping below 30 fps. If you do have an extreme edition CPU you should overclock it for better performance in FSX, but you aren't going to approach 4.6 ghz.
     
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    thigomes95 Notebook Enthusiast

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    OK, got that. Thanks man! = )
     
    thigomes95, Jun 10, 2012
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