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    Spiderman Shattered Dimensions

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by cjnicosia, Dec 26, 2010.

  1. cjnicosia

    cjnicosia Notebook Guru

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    Anyone having trouble running Spiderman Shattered Dimensions?
    My xfire 5870's are really stressed with it. Drivers are 10.11 with profiles. Tried 10.8 and were even worse.
     
    cjnicosia, Dec 26, 2010
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    rubyboy79 Notebook Evangelist

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    frame rates for me are low as well. but playable, except for the future spiderman levels. i think they are too flashy or something. keep getting spikes and freezings when playing as future spiderman
     
    rubyboy79, Dec 26, 2010
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    cjnicosia Notebook Guru

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    Yeah, future SM is definitely the worse of them. Wish they would come out with a patch for this. Seems like it would be a pretty good game.
     
    cjnicosia, Dec 27, 2010
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    irkan Notebook Consultant

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    Is it a port from XBOX? i hate how almost every PC game right now is just ported to PC instead of the other way around.

    btw, try to set everything in CCC to "let the application decide" .. dont force any settings, specially AA. Change everything from the game itself, .. might help, ... it sure helped me with other games.
     
    irkan, Dec 27, 2010
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  5. Kade Storm

    Kade Storm The Devil's Advocate

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    This is a 'Console Port'. The game isn't using any kind of revolutionary engine tech. The future level is using a lot of flashy lighting, but this is nothing new as even our old high-end 7-series cards could handle good lighting.The issue is most likely due to poor console porting, which usually means poor support for multi-GPU solution.

    Try running the game with a single GPU and see if the performance becomes consistent across the board.
     
    Kade Storm, Dec 27, 2010
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    cjnicosia Notebook Guru

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    Ran much better in single GPU. Thanks! Still crashes once in a while. Kinda sucks. Not a bad game...
     
    cjnicosia, Dec 29, 2010
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