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    m17x-r2 WoW stuttering. /sadface

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Sabaku, Jun 24, 2010.

  1. Sabaku

    Sabaku Notebook Geek

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    Okay, I have the m17x-r2,
    i7 620m and dual 4870's
    4gb mem
    Windows 7 64-bit ultimate.
    using 10.6 64bit mobility catalyst drivers.

    So every game i've played has had zero issues, wow even runs great.. except when I turn view distance to full and then shadows to full my fps drops horribly.

    I have all the updated drivers I think and was wondering if there is anything I am doing wrong? I'm pretty sure its the processor, wow does not seem to be graphically intense at all.

    Any ideas or suggestions would be fantastic. I am willing to try anything
     
    Sabaku, Jun 24, 2010
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  2. Coops025

    Coops025 Notebook Consultant

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    just add
    SET timingMethod "85"
    to your config. file

    or "255" you may have to go through some forums but the timings is what causes the stuttering.
     
    Coops025, Jun 24, 2010
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  3. Sabaku

    Sabaku Notebook Geek

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    SET processAffinityMask "255"
    and
    SET timingMethod "85" ?
     
    Sabaku, Jun 24, 2010
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  4. Sabaku

    Sabaku Notebook Geek

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    some of the blue posts said

    SET timingMethod "2"
    SET M2Faster "3"
    SET gxTextureCacheSize "512"
    SET processAffinityMask "85"

    adding these should help.
     
    Sabaku, Jun 24, 2010
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  5. daranik

    daranik Notebook Deity

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    Please post back results, would like to know if this fixes or not.
     
    daranik, Jun 24, 2010
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  6. Lozz

    Lozz Top Overpriced Dell

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    I can't play full shadows with my 720 and CF5870s. Try half shadows instead. Shadows in that game kill FPS, I'm not sure there's any laptop right now that Can max it out without dipping into the 20s in RAID's or Dal
     
    Lozz, Jun 24, 2010
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  7. Sabaku

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    Did not fix my issues :[
     
    Sabaku, Jun 25, 2010
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    It wont fix the issues, the horrible coding the devs of WoW did when updating it for shadows is the problem. It's just too poorly written to run well on any machine other than the most powerful desktops at present.
    Take some advice, leave shadows off and just leave the others at max.
     
    simonmpoulton, Jun 25, 2010
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  9. _Josh

    _Josh Notebook Consultant

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    See my desktop system 1 down there? Max shadows = 30-35 fps. That's on a desktop 920 and TWO 5870s. The game coding is insanely out of date and poorly optimized by today's standards.
     
    _Josh, Jun 25, 2010
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  10. FalconMachV

    FalconMachV Notebook Evangelist

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    Wow Catalyst mobility 10.6 doesn't work on dual 4870's! Sounds like a good question for the Catalyst Marketing gurus. AAAAAUUUUUUUOOWWWHHnomnomnom
     
    FalconMachV, Jun 25, 2010
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  11. TurbodTalon

    TurbodTalon Notebook Virtuoso

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    Not quite sure what you're talking about in post #10.
     

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  12. Sabaku

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    I fixed the issue, turns out I used perfect disk 11 and defragged the drive and back to 60fps in dal max everything cept shadows on half.
     
    Sabaku, Jun 27, 2010
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  13. kilthro

    kilthro Floating in Space

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    Yea the max shadows will kill wow.. I run the game with shadows 1-2 notches above the lowest setting and it still looks good and performs well.

    View distance has always been maxed for me.. well until the 3.3.5 patch where the game is consuming to much memory now for 64bit os's and now when you are in dal, flying over big areas like dragonblight and the game crashes critically with no storage space avail.. Bliz is aware of it and has official postings about it so in the meantime I have to run view distance at 50% so it doesnt crash when the video uses so much memory and the game isnt allocated for it.
     
    kilthro, Jun 28, 2010
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