M11x Gaming Discussion Thread

Minimum Spec
· Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7
· Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz
· 2 GB RAM
· Shader Model 3.0 graphics card with 256MB of memory
· NVIDIA GeForce 7900GS or ATI Radeon 1900XT
· 10GB of free hard drive space

Recommended Spec
· Windows Vista or Windows 7
· Intel or AMD Quad Core 2 GHz+ CPU
· 2 GB RAM
· NVIDIA GeForce 260 or ATI Radeon 4850
· 10 GB of free hard drive space

Also, Bulletstorm is terrible. Don't buy it.

 

How you liking it? Going to be my new addiction for awhile it seems, just waiting on my R2 now. Glad to hear it runs well..I'm getting an i5 and 8GB, but it should hopefully run as good. What drivers are you using if I may ask?

 

I agree. Bulletstorm is the kind of game they'll be unloading for 4.99 on some massive Steam sale if you just wait long enough. Definitely not worth 60 bucks (or however much they're asking for it)

 

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I enjoy it a lot! I know people are complaining about it being similar to WoW, but the developers admitted some of that is on purpose...it makes the transition simple.

Lots of skills/actions to involve in - a much more interactive MMO than typical. Fun looking world too...it'll keep me busy for a long time.

 

Picked up Black Ops for £4.99 at my local supermarket (PC game clearance) and just wow; this the probably the most poorly coded, badly optimised POS I've ever played. Constant mouse lag and unplayable EVEN on the lowest settings, I thought all of this was patched out? Pfft, glad I spend almost nothing on it.. guess I'll just have to play it on my desktop PC.

 

In case anyone is curious...

Tested Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Kane's Wrath, and Command & Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight on my M11x R2 (unoverclocked, no TS)

Framerates were about 20-30 ... only dipping to 20 during intense action with over 100 units onscreen moving/attacking/etc. At no point did the game become unplayable though.

Multiplayer was another story. Framerate is about 20-30 (this game caps the framerate at 30) but network latency can make the game feel kinda slow at times. Just to confirm this, offline play is definitely smoother at times.

Command & Conquer 4 (my least favorite of the series) ran decently at medium settings. High and above resulted in me getting disconnected from network games with error messages stating my FPS was too low. It should also be noted that in this game, even on medium settings, the shadows look utterly horrible. They are blocky and pixelated, and it was such an eye-sore that I actually turned them off and the game all that much better for it.

 

RIFT also plays great on my r1. medium settings with spell detail turned all the way up. get about 20-25 fps, and 10ish when there's a major rift with 40+ players on screen which is perfectly fine for an MMO in my opinion. Rift has 1 million pre orders before the game even goes live. and there is a lot of positive vibes about the game. Trion is staying on top of things and hopefully RIFT will make it as a great MMO.

 

I'm guessing that you cant really trust Game-Debate.com? Its saying that my graphics card will have trouble playing this game...but you guys are all playing rift just fine.

 

Going back on what I posted earlier in this thread. I am now OC'd on my R1, and League of Legends I see about 60+ FPS when out of combat, and about 40 when fighting. So about a 10 FPS increase all around after OCing, with minimal heat increase, I hardly notice a difference!

I'm sure that will go up more when I upgrade my RAM.

 

I got the Ubisoft Hit pack from Steam, and well, is a lot of GB to download, so far I have only Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood and works great, all settings to max, at native resolution, runs 40-55 fps, looks and plays great, fun game, and with no OC...

I´m uploading a video right now, the video was at balanced settings to be able to record with fraps:

YouTube - Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood on the Alienware m11x

But to tell you the truth, I think the game runs better at max settings, because it uses more post process power....

 

I also picked up the Ubisoft pack... for 12 bucks how could I say no?

My games are currently still downloading, but from what I've seen Far Cry 2 should run fairly well on the M11x R2. Same with Assassin's Creed.

As far as the other games, I'm not sure.

 

hey fellas m11x r2 here trying to play rift. even when i put it on the lowest possible settings i get 15-20 fps with drops to 6 fps. meridian is the worst and major water rifts lag me aswell tried to tank Iron Tomb tonight and couldnt.

I have the i5, 4 gigs of ram fresh install of windows all drivers updated currently using 266.58 nivida drivers can someone help me? Lately it feels like this laptop is taking a dump on me. 15 min shut downs are horrible and 5 minute boot ups suck too

 

Far Cry 2 runs alright with some tweaking in the graphics section.

 

Make sure you've whitelisted Rift to use the 335M graphics card and not the Intergrated Intel HD one.

 

Ditto. Sweet deal. Hoping my R1 can handle these.

Does Far Cry 2 or Rainbow 6 have much of an online following anymore? I hate being the new guy who gets his butt kicked cause he just got the game others have been playing for 2 years. But I hate it worse when no servers or players are around anymore.

 

I don´t expect people in them, but who knows, maybe the deal make some people start to play...

 

so after doing quite a bit of experimenting, Far Cry 2 does run decently well on the Alienware M11x R2

It does require some tweaking though. In my case, I turned shadows to "low" ... for whatever reason, even high shadows look blocky and very ugly with the M11x R2, so the game actually looks better with low shadows.

I ran the "action scene" benchmark test to kinda show you guys how the M11x R2 handled it. It hugged the 30 FPS mark fairly well, only dipping as low as 24ish during crazy intense scenes.

My conclusion is that you may have to switch to "Medium" settings across the board to get it to stay above 30 FPS during intense sequences. Indoors, and just walking around with no enemies results in very steady 50-60 FPS.

Far Cry 2 is also a jagged mess, even at the native resolution. I may try and tweak my settings around having at *least* 2x AA enabled, because this game really needs it.

 

When I get low fps or lower than usual in a game, the first thing I go to check or lower is the shadows....

Even in Call of Juarez BiB, works great with shadows at max, but if you put them in normal, you get more fps, and the shadows still look the same

 

just putting in my 2 penneth... bulletstorm works great on my R2 i played it all on medium settings and it was very smooth... when i set it all to low it looked so nice and played like a dream

 

Assasins Creed works very good, but for some reason there is a lot of lag or loading times in the menus, even the Ubisoft logo at the start lags like when you get very low frames, or if I exit the game, it took like 1 minute in the quit screen, just to get the animation of quiting the game...

At least the game runs awesome....

 

Found the problem and solution, since I was getting freezing issues even when fighting in the game, and I found that if I play offline, the issues are gone, and true, I just played like 1 hour of Assassins Creed without any problem...

 

Sweet Jesus..... My R2 eat Dead Space 2 like a snack.....

I thought this game came with the high spec requirement......

 

you can run DS2 on stock speeds and it just gets eaten up. i am hoping that homefront will be the same.

has anyone tried TW: Shogun 2?

 

no, but I got Medieval total war 2, and intend to give it a go.

 

even if it's the shogun 2 demo i would love to see someone try it and post a vid of it running.

EDIT: downloading the demo to find out

 

Would love to know what happens as I recently bought it too, but its far from smooth on the high, let alone highest settings. I read on this forum somewhere that Empire Total War worked on highest smoothly, so it's kynna strange.

EDIT: I've added it to the Nvidia whitelist.

 

hi guys, homefront is now out anyone have tried it? Im planning getting a m11x

 

i'm downloading it right now but because steam has delayed the release in Australia till the 16th i have to use a VPN to play it.

 

i cant wait to see how it runs (cross fingers)

 

has anyone tried Dragon Age 2 on a r2 rig? if so how does it play? playable/unplayable even on lowest settings?

 

works smoothly on low settings.

 

With the Intel HD GPU, use the Nvidia to level up the settings....

 

DX9 at Medium settings, AA up to 4X I think and High Res Texture Pack installed it runs extremely smooth. Even at a 1900x1050 resolution I use on my TV at home.

 

urgh getting some really annoying error message when trying to get homefront running.

 

Im also getting the Error message,

D3DRHI->GetFactory()->CreateSwapChain(DXGIDevice,&SwapChainDesc,SwapChain.GetInitReference()) failed
at C:\HF_PC_STABLE\DEVELOPMENT\SRC\D3D11DRV\SRC\D3D11VIEWPORT.CPP:355
with error DXGI_ERROR_INVALID_CALL

Anybody know how to fix this? i downloaded from steam obviously, installed fine, went to launch and it gave me this message, i verified my games cache, defraged it, restarted, updated drivers. but it still wont work. I really also don't want to have to download it again.

 

Hey, I know this is way late... and there are a million people that have done this game on the M11x before, but just wanted to post some screenshots of my Resident Evil 5 benchmarks.

All settings are on HIGH, motion blur, and in DirectX 10 mode. First one is with NO antialiasing, and the second one is with 4X Antialiasing. Without AA, the game was smooth as glass through the entire benchmark. On the second test with 4X AA, the game never stuttered or became unplayable, but during several of the intense scenes the framerate dipped to the low 20's

Granted this is un-overclocked, stock 1.2 ghz core I7 ... so I have no doubt that overclocking and throttlestop would make this game fly with 4X AA. Even with stock, it's very playable.

Benchmark 1: (No AA)
http://i51.tinypic.com/257ppac.jpg

Benchmark 2: (4X AA)
http://i56.tinypic.com/312e7n4.jpg

 

did you fixed the problem ?

 

yes in the homefront and you thread. basically the game had DX10 on by default and that option caused the glitch. so that was disabled and so now it is playable.

 

Okay. I have 48 dollars to spend on steam, and i was wondering what game/games i should buy. I already own-
Starcraft 2 (not on steam but still dont want any reccomendations for this)
Gmod
Left for dead 1 and 2
TES IV GOTY
Mass Effect 2
Fallout 3 GOTY

 

Dragon age I guess if you like rpg games

 

Don't drop a lot on Dragon Age... EA games tend to drop in price fairly rapidply.

Definitely go for Left 4 Dead 1 & 2... they play amazingly on the M11x

 

team fortress 2

 

i 2nd this man...

 

I'm a PS3 gamer moving more into PC territory, and I love my M11x. I've bought Fallout 3 and New Vegas, The Witcher: EE, and Two Worlds. Very impressed with the performance so far. I'm looking at getting Risen and Divinity II: Dragon Knight Saga. Can anyone tell me what kind of performance to expect for these two games?

 

Ever since i bought M11x, I installed lots of games into it.

Starcraft 2, TF2, L4D 1 & 2, Crysis 2, Torchlight, Bioshock 2, Cid Civilization V etc.

All of them running great on m11x

 

There is a demo of Risen on Steam. I found it perfectly playable at a mixture of high/medium settings @ native resolution. Looked pretty good from what I remember but I found the game itself a bit dull.

 

crysis 2 is a fun game and does run better than crysis 1, though even at 720p i got fps drops to the 19fps range so i bumped it down to 1024x576 and it still looks awesome and i get an FPS boost.

though for me the max res for every game i put on my m11x is 720p.

 

Sooooooooooooooo....

Any racing fans tried Shift 2 on the M11x yet? I'm not sure I wanna drop 49.99 on it.

 

Unfortunately any demos are out for me. I live in the country and I have Hughesnet, with a 200mb daily cap. Steam is pretty useless, even though I really like the idea of it. Except for it keeping me from playing my games when internet connection isn't present. It won't let me start New Vegas in offline mode no matter what. I bought disc version of New Vegas but had to register it with Steam. The whole reason I bought the M11x is because we go camping a lot and the PS3 is a pain to drag along. I'm trying to stay away from games that are required to register on Steam since the New Vegas issue. Thank you.

 

You have to log into steam at least once with your game before that game is allowed to play in offline mode. It's as simple as starting the game while online, exiting, turning on offline mode, and playing offline from then on.