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    M17X R2 GTA performance

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Devnant, Nov 3, 2010.

  1. Devnant

    Devnant Notebook Enthusiast

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    My rig has i7 920xm, 8GB RAM and 5870 crossfire, but GTA IV game is pretty much unplayable maxed out (10-25 FPS). With high shadows game plays with 25-30 FPS.

    Funny thing is benchmark points out that
    CPU usage: 33%
    Sys mem usage: 42%
    Vid mem usage: 43%

    Does that mean the game is not demanding resources from the m17x to run smoothly?Anyone having the same issues? And yeah, stealth is disabled, and power options are set on high performance. Driver is 10.10 with 3D options set on max performance.

    Help!
     
    Devnant, Nov 3, 2010
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  2. TurbodTalon

    TurbodTalon Notebook Virtuoso

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    Are you talking maxed out including all sliders to the far right? Good luck with that. The game was a poorly coded port to begin with. I would use the recommended settings. Shadows are by far the biggest performance drain. If you can live with them on low, or even off, that game will run smooth as butter. Nothing is wrong accept your settings. Try lowering the shadows, etc. Don't pay any attention to the resource usage that it lists either. Nature of the beast man.
     
    TurbodTalon, Nov 3, 2010
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    johnsmor Notebook Geek

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    Reminds me of trying to run All Points Bulletin, that game was awful! I dont have the guts to try and download another MMP shooter game...
     
    johnsmor, Nov 3, 2010
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    TurbodTalon Notebook Virtuoso

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    Well no, GTA:IV runs very well on these systems, just not with all of the settings jacked up. Heck, it ran well on the 4870 rig, you pretty much needed the QX9300 though. I'm running EFLC at 50-60fps on recommended settings right now.
     
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  5. SillyHoney

    SillyHoney Headphone Enthusiast

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    In 2013 or 2014 there will be a laptop that can handle GTA 4 maxed out.
     
    SillyHoney, Nov 3, 2010
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    Quadzilla The eye is watching you

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    Even my desktop struggled to MAX it out with 2x5870s@2560x1600 so yeah i would say 2014 is probably right on the money ..
     
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    The thing about GTA:IV is that it's not very optimized. This means that it takes WAY more horsepower to run it than the graphics are actually worth. So building a rig just to try to max it out is a bad idea in my opinion. Of course, this 'said' computer would completely obliterate other titles that were actually well-written.
     
    TurbodTalon, Nov 3, 2010
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  9. SillyHoney

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    There are Quad SLI GTX 480M desktop out there. 3DMark Vantage is around 60,000. Don't know if it's powerful enough for GTA IV lol
     
    SillyHoney, Nov 3, 2010
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