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    Team Fortress 2 FPS

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by matthab, Jan 23, 2013.

  1. matthab

    matthab Notebook Enthusiast

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    Morning all,

    Ive had my m17x r4 since December and love how it eats its way through many of the games I play. However last night was my first night on TF2. For a game so old it struggled to get over 90fps, this was on my Dell U2410 1920x1200 external monitor. All settings maxed out.

    What are you guys getting FPS wise or is there something im missing?

    I forced it to run on the 680m so I know its not on the Intel Card.

    Matt
     
  2. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    That seems good to me. Do you have Vsync active?
     
  3. matthab

    matthab Notebook Enthusiast

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    Nope, otherwise i would be stuck at 60fps. If thats what other people are getting then im happy.
     
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    I haven't been able to find any comparison for this game with this card maybe another user can give us a hand with that. But as far as performance it seems completely normal to me. Actually pretty good.
     
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    matthab Notebook Enthusiast

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    This is why I posted as I couldn't find any benchmarks. All my other games I found with no issue.
     
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    DDDenniZZZ Notebook Deity

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    I have same main specs as you except cheapo ram 16gb cl10 and same CPU and GPU, with samsung 830 SSD, I will bench mine and get back to you, just need to download TF2.
     
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    M11xDude Notebook Consultant

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    On my M17x R3 with just the bottom-rung 6870m, I get close to 200fps. But then again, my resolution is only 1600x900. So that may account for it being that high. What's interesting is that my newer M14x R2 with a 650m only gets a little over 100fps on the same map. I have all my settings maxxed out btw. The map I play on is the classic 2Forts map mostly. I do notice that other maps slow down my fps a bit.
     
  8. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    My R2 on 1200p can run max settings 200+ frames per second..