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    Doom III performance

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by 1201NFTW, Aug 24, 2011.

  1. 1201NFTW

    1201NFTW Notebook Evangelist

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    So I recently purchased Doom III to replay it. The 335m should be powerful enough to play this game maximum settings at native resolution, however I'm only getting FPS in the mid 10s. I did white-list it and nvidia optimus tools show the 335m is active because of doomiii.exe

    Anyone have any ideas?
     
    1201NFTW, Aug 24, 2011
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    Mobius 1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    have you tried overclocking and playing on AC power?
     
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    I am playing it on AC power. I shouldn't have to overclock, the laptop can easily handle BioShock and BioShock 2 at native resolution maxed out.
     
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    maybe a patch?

    older version may have graphical problems
     
    Mobius 1, Aug 24, 2011
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    Not quite sure what happened. I went into a config file and forced widescreen resolution instead of using the command console and now it is running great. >50 FPS on average maxed out.

    So if anyone else wants to play this game, because the m11x resolution is not in the regular system systems go into the config file instead of using the command console to get the resolution you want.
     
    1201NFTW, Aug 24, 2011
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    Yeah i guess since the native res of the M11x 1366x768 isnt exactly normal it could cause problems. weird though.
     
    ThwartAbyss54, Aug 24, 2011
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