*OFFICIAL* Game Settings, Tweaks and Tips Thread

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This game is just a blast... It requires little horsepower to run very well and will most likely run smoothly on weak laptops. Graphics are not fantastic, but it's so much fun that I don't really care. I like the music, too.

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Awesome! +1 rep. This one really deserves it

 

I got this one in a bundle but never checked it out. Cheers, will have a play when I can.

 

that brutal legend looks great, never heard of it, need to check it out now ASAP

 

Anyone have any tips for Farcry 3?
That game always crashes. I've been trying to get through a coop game with a buddy and it's always crashing at some point. I've tried under clocking, single GPU...
Everything.
Then game's still a broken mess after all this time.

 

I just watched all 18 minutes of this video lol. Game looks funny, I don't know how it is using nearly 50% of each GPU though, must be unoptimized.

 

I'm still going through Far Cry 3 and haven't been experiencing the crashes youre describing. I do notice that my GPU temps will get up there if I don't set the fans to 4200 RPM. Youre getting a CTD and not a BSOD I presume? How much Flex voltage are you running at 4.6 Ghz? I know from other games that running too high multipliers will result in a CTD with inadequate Flex Voltage. I can usually discern if the CTD is GPU or CPU related as if it is inadequate voltage along with moderate overclocking on the GPU's that usually results in a "your display driver failed but successfully recovered" along with a reversion back to stock clockspeed.

I am on 331.93.

Also, I have found that HBAO looks a little bit better than SSAO and to not set MSAA to x4 as unless youre at a higher resolution display, at 1920x1080 there is no discernible difference, 2x MSAA is adequate at this resolution.

I play mostly at 4.2 Ghz with Flex VID at 12. (44,44,43,42). It might be time for a repaste, I am considering the coolaboratory stuff, are you using it?

 

Thanks for your response brother Vulcan. I found a working solutions. Following these suggestions seemed to fix things. I'm pretty sure the culprit was my OSD's.

 

Here is one to watch. If they work out the final kinks it will be great. Still a terrible shame there is no offline campaign mode.

 

Sorry for the late reply, if youre still going through Far Cry 3 I HIGHLY recommend this mod:

Ziggys Mod at Far Cry 3 Nexus - mods and community

 

If anyone here is enjoying Titanfall as I know I am I have a few tips to help improve the smoothness of the game:

1. Enable "adaptive v-sync" in Nvidia Control Panel and disable v-sync in game, you will occasionally get horizontal tearing but it is infinitely better than the stutter should you remain with conventional v-sync. There is no SLI profile for this game so there is quite a load on your primary GPU which results in a bit of stutter as if youre like me you will want to max out every graphical option available, which brings me to the next tip.

2. Max everything out if you have 680M or newer, preferably overclocked (+225 core/ +450 memory @ 1.025 V and I still get GPU related frame drops and stutter) EXCEPT texture quality which should be no greater than "Very High". Respawn is quite clear that you will need 3GB of VRAM to run "Insane" texture quality and they are not kidding around, I have played with this setting on "Insane" and there was moderate to severe stutter.

These are the two most popular tips that can also be gleaned from sources elsewhere on the web. We are all waiting patiently for Nvidia to come up with an SLI Titanfall driver but even then I don't believe those with anything less than 780M with its 4GB of VRAM will be able to enjoy the best texture quality. Kinda sad really, 680M is only a few years old and Titanfall may be the first among a wave of new games that suggest that 2GB of VRAM is inadequate.

But it is still good to be a PC gamer! Those with an XBone are stuck with no more than 792p and 30 FPS! This is the XBone were talking about not the XBox 360!

Oh and if youre OC'd this game will give your primary a workout, mine hit 74 C at some point during the 3-4 hours I enjoyed last night. This was with the fans manually set at 3700 RPM, system elevated, and a fresh application of Coolaboratory Liquid Ultra. If you feel inclined, please post the temps you see on your primary GPU, overclocked or not, for comparison purposes.

If anyone else has any other Titanfall tips they would like to share, technical or gameplay wise, please do.

 

Thanks for the tips brother Vulcan. Also thanks for the FC3 mod tips.. I'll try them out. Do you know if there are extra multiplayer coop maps for download ?
It's hard to believe Titan will use more than 2gig VRAM but I guess it's inevitable sooner or later.
I might get it when it's around $20. Since I mainly have my little beast hooked up to the TV I can't make good use of a k/m to stand a chance, so getting my a$$ handed to me in competitive online games using a pad isn't too much fun. Normally I'll just play coop FPS games, racing games or single players these days.

 

Not sure if the final release is the same as beta, but using AFR2 helped offset the lack of an SLI profile. I hope they fixed a few things in the final release version, but it is an awesome game. Both GPUs functioned around 50-60% using AFR2... performance was the same with more of a shared load (which may mean lower temps). You might want to give that a try if you haven't already done so. Below is some information I had posted in the Alienware Gaming Video thread that might be useful here.

 

Oh this is excellent advice as usual Mr.Fox, it appears that the game is exactly as the Beta so I am very excited to try this, thanks as always!

 

Yeah to be honest even though I used a $10 off coupon, having gotten into the habit of getting stellar, nearly new titles for $20-30 during Steam sales has really spoiled me and my wallet groaned at the $49 price-tag. That said, BELIEVE THE HYPE. Yes I hate EA. Yes I am sick of COD. But this game is truly evolutionary, the ecstatic blend of parkour found in Mirrors Edge with mech combat that rivals Hawken and a solid FPS that feels like COD, which isn't a bad thing, IS EXHILARATING in execution. This is the best FPS I have played hands-down. So in that sense, I feel it was somewhat worth it especially considering that in nearly every stellar title heretofore, waiting the requisite 6-12 months for a Steam sale left me entering an environment where I felt seriously outclassed and outskilled. Take Crysis 3 multiplayer for example, it takes quite a while to level up and unlock weapons and attributes all the while developing your skill-set. So after 6 months new players enter the foray having to face off against veterans using the Gauss Rifle with a Thermal Scope and a Hologram attachment for example with no more than the base sniper rifle. Youre getting owned for quite some time and it is very frustrating. Talk about a drawn out initiation ritual. Well the same applies to Titanfall and I didn't want to experience that again, I wanted to be on a relative playing field and if it meant paying $49 instead of $30 well that's the early entry price.

Concerning that Far Cry 3 mod, it really is essential as it removes all of the hand-holding icons that I feel baby anyone exploring it, like being able to highlight all enemies. I like being challenged with keeping a mental inventory of where the enemies are in say a camp, their patrol route and line of sight to other enemies. And other things like the loot animation which is greatly accelerated with the mod and the ability to access the entire character development tree right from the get-go. And most importantly the mod removes all of the pronounced, unnecessary sounds when interacting with say a plant or a door "whish, whoom, boom" etc. As far as multi-player maps, I have yet to even try Far Cry 3 multi-player as I have so many other games that do that better. I am still going through the main campaign and have also picked up Blood Dragon mostly because of its nostalgic allure (hey man I was a kid in the 80's and was able to enjoy all of those cheesy 80's movies, Blood Dragon really looks awesome).

If you still haven't installed Ziggy's Mod check this out:

 

AFR2 didn't alleviate the stutter, it seemed to make it a little worse, and then the HUD started glitching at one point so I reverted to the global SLI profile. Hopefully they come out with an SLI profile soon.

 

On the subject of gaming... is it just me and my personal preferences? Or, has anyone else noticed Humble Bundle no longer offers much except for cheesy Indie titles and/or super old games I already have or I don't even want because they are so old and/or poor quality? I am not really complaining because I have obtained a lot of great games from them at awesome prices, and I appreciate their charitable cause... just an observation that they have offered nothing recently that even remotely interests me. Today I see Natural Selection 2 is available as 1 good item out of 6 being offered. I already have Natural Selection 2, so not worth getting the bundle no matter how inexpensive it might be because the other stuff I've never even heard of, or it's just an old-moldy (Hotline Miami) that is of no interest.

 

Funny you should say, but I just got mailed by Humble Bundle and like it has been for some time of late, not much on offer - just Indie games and nothing to tickle my taste buds....the last bundle I grabbed was the Origin bundle back in December 13 and included BF3, Crysis Maximum edition, Dead Space 3, Medal of Honour, Dead space, Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box, Command and Conquer Red Alert 3:, Mirror's Edge, Populous and the Sims 3...........fantastic bundle and nothing like it has come up since to compete with it, which is a shame.

 

I think a ripper of a bundle will come up sometime again. I've noticed that that pad out the really good bundles with crappy ones in between. The Sega bundle a couple of weeks back wasn't too bad but I agree we haven't had a must get bundle in ages.

 

I think they rely on the kindness of the publishers to be able hand out games at such amazing prices, in that way they probably don't have much choice of the games they can offer.

 

Yes, I kind of felt cheated in fact. Titanfall is an awesome game, and multiplayer it's certainly fun, but the lack of a campaign really left me bummed. I hope they'll release a sequel or a substantial update including single player mode, although I doubt it'll ever happen.

 

I have not purchased it and probably will not without an offline campaign. Even though it is a fantastic game, I have too little interest in online multi-player gaming for it to be worth spending any of my money on it. It would end up just wasting drive space.

 

Many games focus entirely on the multiplayer experience and although I understand the reason for that, since there's a florid market and people find the human vs human challenge more interesting, I find it disappointing when they leave the single player mode completely out of the equation, as in this case.

Note 1: I removed the dead links from my post: Game Tweaking Utilities and Resources, updated them with new versions, and added Display Driver Uninstaller Download version 12.7.1.0.

Note 2: I have to make a correction about my former post. I erroneously typed "I kind of cheated" when I actually meant saying "I kind of felt cheated" (by the fact that Titanfall has no single player).

 

I've not bought Titanfall either, pretty much for the same reasons. What a shame they did not include a single player option......

 

Off topic note: hey steve I have been away for a while and just noticed your signature. I see you got an AW 14. Good

 

Hiya Bro! :hi2: - yeah, the 18 R1 went back to Dell about 12 months ago. I'd been struggling by with a Toshiba Z830 Ultrabook until recently when I bagged a good deal on a 14 from Ebay. Just upgraded the board as it had a GT750m - should be much more capable now - see here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...14-owner-s-lounge-thread-125.html#post9653359

 

Yes, brother. I saw the thread -- very good job :thumbsup: I'm glad you're again part of the AW family

 

I'm not sure if this has been posted anywhere. For those who want SLI working in Titanfall you can tweak it using compatibility bits.
Here a pretty straightforward video that did the trick for me.

 

Nice to finally see some good game titles again (instead of indie crap) from Humble Bundle for great prices. 48-hour sales email just received today...

https://www.humblebundle.com/store?...ail&utm_term=0_990b1b6399-42c9ec0e9e-97539717

 

I recommend Sniper V2 Elite if you're looking for a good game. Its a 3rd person sniper game. A little under-rated if you ask me.

 

I've played with the benchmark for that game.

 

The X-ray replay camera of all the bones shattering when you do a nice snipe is very 'more-ish'
I didn't know if had a benchmark. Is it a stand alone or ingame ?

 

Standalone, but it works with the game if you already have it. Since you recommend it, I am downloading it now.

Download Sniper Elite V2 Benchmark Tool | techPowerUp

 

Here we go...

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Very nice. Actually from watching your bench temps I think you confirmed my suspicions with regards to Liquid Metal Ultra TIM (assuming you didn't do your meat locker setup).
I was stingy and only applied the metal to the die of the CPU/GPU, not the HS too. Also because I knew that you had applied it to both and I wanted to see if there would be a noticeable difference just doing the die as if it was a normal TIM. I'm thinking your application is the best way with this stuff.

Anyway I have some more on order and will lap the HS this time too and see what kind of difference I get under increasing warmer ambient temps. If the temps improve under increasingly warmer days/nights then it's a definitive tick in favor of covering both surfaces. Will let y'all know in the Coollaboratories thread.



(Nothing special just a quickie bench)

 

Very nice benchie. :thumbsup:

No AC cooling, just the fans. I don't use AC cooling much any more since applying Liquid Ultra. I only need it for higher CPU overclocks and a lot more GPU voltage than what I was using there.

 

After 2-3 weeks of use,it's official, I'm in love with the Liquid Ultra paste. I can't really describe how good it is, with a minimun of 40-42° on cpu and 36° and 35° respectively on both GPUs on boot up, while ambient temps nowadays is around 30°. Playing games with it became a charm. Where a Battlefield 4 on max settings and stock OC would bump the CPU temps around 83-84 constantly,now it hardly reaches 79° at max,and even if it does hit the 80°,it will quickly fall back to 79° out of shame. It is so good that I would have already brushed it under the armpits if it was going to work there too.
Not sure if we have a general thread for compounds feedbacks,so I've posted it here. I'd post some pics too if needed, but I'm so sure everyone here knows it so good that there's not the need.

 

Awesome! I knew you'd be happy. Good stuff. +1 Rep

Using this thread is perfectly fine. Here is another good thread for feedback on this: [Death Match] Thermal Paste Showdown: IC Diamond vs Noctua NT-H1 vs Liquid Ultra

It never hurts to have helpful information in more than one place. It makes finding answers easier when you are busting your tail on Google trying to solve problems.

 

New thread to add to the index in the opening post: http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...last-light-redux-performance-discussions.html

 

Gosh, these benching tools from Adrenaline are so much fun.

 

No need to panic if GPU-Z says your NVIDIA GPU does not have PhysX support. It does if the software is installed. However, GPU-Z sometimes does not detect PhysX correctly. As you can see from the screen shot in the video, the the Windows Installer version of GPU-Z on the left does, but the standalone (portable version) does not. PhysX functionality can be confirmed and tested by using the free FluidMark utility.

Spoiler

 

Wanted to map my macro keys to control volume and eject the disk while playing games but no luck because Alienware TactX doesn't detect the "Fn" key when pressed . Did anyone have more luck? I wanted to map A to turn the volume down, B - Volume Up, C - Mute, D - Eject Disk. Or maybe someone could share an AKP file with these settings?

 

This is how good I thought Liquid Ultra was:


I wanted to achieve less than 10*C under full load; first attempt. Made brother Fox cry.. That's not easy (ROFL!!).

P.S. I succeeded. Did not post!

 

Is it working? I'm not sure if that is the way it should be applied buddy :/

 

Is that for real? Or are you trolling?

 

@[Nikos] - No, it did not post. Clearly waaay too much Liquid Ultra.

@TBoneSan - That is for real. Wish I were trolling.

My very first attempt ever; I got over excited. LoL

 

Holy caw :| I was wishing it was a joke or something, sorry to hear that it did not work but maybe you are going to need to buy another CPU, hope it is just the CPU.

 

It was just the CPU & I replaced it since, applied Liquid Ultra properly. Works like a dream now very low temps under full load.

 

Maaaaannn first time ever I felt sadness looking on electronical components in my life.
Have to give you reputation just to feel myself better