M11x Gaming Discussion Thread

i haven't even tried the first game on my m11x.

EDIT: anyone tried section 8 prejudice?

 

I used the yougamers pc hardware scan to determine whether I could run it. I got a bad message

 

Almost all hardware scan for games software lies.

 

dont use those stupid hardware scanners. there worthless and arnt accurate. just try the game for yourself.

 

hydrophobia: Prophecy

YouTube - Hydrophobia: Prohpecy on M11x R2

This is before you meet the water so i'll do a video of when you hit it in the game.

 

i wonder if it would be worth while to have a dedicated thread to YT videos of games running on the m11x.

thoughts?

 

I think it may be possible, however, it might not be as active as this thread since questions can be answered with: "Go and watch X video here." Also, you would need to find players who have the game or plan on getting a game on release and showcase/record their m11x playing said game. Not only that, but you might also need some sort of video standard or something to keep things organized IE: Have FRAPS running a counter on X area of the screen, etc.

 

Section 8 Prejudice runs pretty well on the R1. Well past playable, although I'm not sure if you could get it to 60fps by turning down detail.

Brink is pretty much unplayable (constant drops to 10-15fps) in a 16-player game.

 

Anyone got a highly OC'd R2 that can run MW2 and BFBC2 and post FPS and settings? When I get mine, those are the two games I will play the most.

 

I don't have an R2 but I have an R1 OC'd to 1.73ghz and I run mw2 at 720p at max everything and get an average of about 55-60 fps and dips down to high 40s if a lot is happening at once. I know it's not an R2 but hope it helps.

 

Helps alot. If the R1 can run it, the R2 definitely can.

 

BFBC2 works very well on the R2 even at stock. Use Stevenxowen892's optimization guide for even better performance without overclocking.

 

Sweet. I've seen a vid of it doing 40FPS on medium, about the same as my M9750 w/3870. Pretty impressive.

 

r1 handles very bad online gaming bfbc2 at least for me, it drops to 15 fps when everything in the map is exploding, I dunno mw2 since I dont have it for PC

 

Would you happen to have a link to his guide by any chance? I want to try setting bfbc2 up on my r1 to try and get the best fps I can.

Edit: Nevermind I found it, but there's no guide anymore.

 

are the 270.51 beta drivers good for L4D2?

 

Nope, 'very high shaders' do not work with them, you can only go as high as 'medium'. If that does not bug you, then you are fine with 270.51b.

The very high shaders work fine with 260.99

 

Has anyone tried Fable 3 on a r1 or m11x in general.

 

with the same settings of the original notebook review for the R1 with overclocked su7100 in left for dead 2 my average frame rate for my overclocked R3 averages 82 fps over 10 minutes of playing. Where as the r1 averages 42. My lowest frame rate was 42.

My overclocked r3 is 800 core, 1600 shader and 980 off the memory... pushing the memory 80 mhz had 0 effect on performance. This is with the i5 processor.

Essentially,
L4d2
R1-42 fps average
r2- 46
r3- stock with i5, 72
r3- max OC 82.

As far as temps go, 70c on a flat surface is the max in l4d2, completely OC.

If anyone is wondering, stock in league of legends with everything maxed except for shadows which are on low i get around 60-80 fps, late game can drop into the low 40's but it doesnt hang up like the r2 i had did. Also my r2 only got around 50 with everything on low-medium. Had this weird animation "stutter" to it where the animations werent very fluid. Safe to say that isnt the case for the r3.

 

With my r2 mild overclocked with thottlestop i get around 70s and 80s avg on left 4 dead 2 everything maxed, I hardly see under 60fps.


Will also try that league of legends game and see how it is on my r2.


But if you were ony averaging 46fps on left 4 dead 2 on your r2 when you had it it must of been throttling or something.

 

Those were the numbers I pulled fromthis websites official review. My numbers with just running around casual shooting sits well over 100. Lots of guys charging drops to 60-70ish.

Everything maxed I get around 40-50 average so I don't see how you'd be pulling that much higher of an "average" then mine. There's no throttling.

 

I also distintcly remembering the game chugging with a lot of guys rushing on the r2 when I had it on medium settings. Around 40-45 during those scenes

 

Some people here are saying they are getting 80 fps average playing l4d2 while I am only getting 40, I know they are overclocking but I'm playing on all lowest settings. I've already added it to the whitelist and tried launching it in my steamapps folder but that doesn't help. Anyone know what could be wrong? Also is there a way to see my cpu speed and if I'm using nvidia graphics while playing the game?

Stock i7 r3

 

Well that's what i get on my r2 overclocked with thottlestop, If i have time i will see if i can get a video playing a match.

But i know i don't see under 50fps average . And its not a constant im always getting 80s avg but its mostly always hits around that, I say about 60 too 80fps avg and the minimum fps i saw was 40s but that's very rare i see that.


I also don't use anti aliasing.

But thottlestop does help a good bit on the r2.

 

pre-purchased deus ex: human revolution from steam so I damn hoping that it runs fine on the m11x.

 

l4d2 should automatically turn on the gpu. It does for mine. 40 fps on low sounds like the integrated graphics running though.

 

anyone tried section 8 prejudice?

 

The gameplay is ok, runs fine on high settings on my standard OC'ed M11x R1

 

hi guys,

i am having problems running civ 5 on a new alienware- i7 6 gig 540m.

any suggestions- i just get a black screen on startup with direct 9 or 11

 

cool, will see how it fairs on my R2 then.

EDIT: Runs OK, but drops when you dive from the dropship.

 

how does the stock r3 cpu and gpu compare to the the r2 stock and oced? Is it a big difference? Is is the i5 in the r3 better tha the i7 in the r2?

 

i7 in R2 has the potential to OC and be faster than i7 in R3. the same goes from the i5 for R2 and R3. the R3 does not overclock the CPU very well and cant take advantages of throttlestop to prevent throttling. the best CPU for now in the r2 is the i7-680um which should outperform the R3 i7 by a large margin if there is a decent stable overclock and throttlestop but only a few lucky people have had success getting that chip by calling dell when they ordered.

 

how about the gt335 compared to the gt540. Is it worth getting the r3 just for the GPU?

 

The GT335M has 72 shaders, 8 ROPs, 1GB DDR3, a 128-bit bus and DX10. The GT540M has 96 shaders, 4 ROPs, 1GB DDR3, a 128-bit bus and DX11.

The 540M is slightly faster, up to 20% in some games, but not much faster on others. I'd get the R3 because an R3 with an OC'd GPU will beat any R2 in gaming, and DX11 support is worth it.

 

i would not get an R3. the gpu in the R2 can be overclocked by 20% easily. and the gt540 has dx11 support, but lacks the punch to run any dx11 games at any decent res or settings, you will still be forced to use dx10.

 

Are there specific games you are referring to? Can you provide a game and the res/settings for example, where an R2 will perform better using dx10? When you say it 'lacks the punch' - what do you mean? Won't run? Will run but laggy/jittery, low FPS etc?

I'm really curious how much this is a limitation on my system.

 

The GT540M can also be OC'd by 20%. There are some DX11 features that may not run as well, but look at benchmarks stock and stock on both systems. For example, COD: BO had an average 31FPS on the R2 and 40~ on the R3. (notebookreview) So, around 30%. That's only one game though. Anyone else chime in? Maybe someone habit owned both an R2/1 and R3?

 

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Does this really work?

 

I want to know the same, they want me to download gamebooster from a weird page....
I think I'll pass

 

I'd just like to know what settings it's changing, and if it affects my SSD at all. I don't want it to try defrag for faster access when defragmenting an SSD will only decrease its life.

 

I'm confused. I thought the r3 had second generation processors. The overclocking and throttlestop can outperform sandy bridge?

 

Sandy bridge is a great upgrade, but some people talk about it like is 4x the power of previous CPUS, they just use less power, are smaller, better temps, and a slight power increase, and if previous poster is right, and older gen CPU can be better than a new one (overclocked and with the help of TS)

 

Some benchmarks have shown sandybridge CPU's to outperform the last gen anywhere from 30-76%.

 

I'll just try and activate my free version with the key you get in the notepad document rather than downloading it from some random site.

 

Yep, greatly improved. Wait until Ivy Bridge, even better yet. Intel is on to something good here at least. More performance for same or less power. Sounds like a good deal to me!

 

Yeah, but I think we are talking about the ULV CPUs, not the desktop monsters....

 

What will Ivy Bridge? I heard about performance gains for desktop variants in terms of better on board graphics, but like all IGPU's of the past why would the build in Intel graphics of Ivy Bridge be any different?

I have no idea of the gains of these latest i processors, as my own laptop is still core2Duo 2.0 GHz.

 

The i7-2630QM, the lowest end mobile quad core is about as powerful as the i7-950 desktop. ULV is more powerful as well.

 

Those benchmarks were mobile CPU's, not Desktop but I forgot you guys were referring to the ULV ones.