M11x Gaming Discussion Thread

Hah, yeah I've seen some youtube footage of previous M11x's trying to deal with Arma2 and the results aren't pretty, I think they manage about 5fps with details set to high and about 12 with everything set to low.. A real slideshow!

I'm genuinely interested to see how the r3 stacks up though given that it's a significant development from the r2. (and more of an evolution than the r2 ever was over the first incarnation!)

 

retail version of fear 3 is still good

EDIT: Into the 3rd mission/level and still smooth!

 

Wow the latest Resident Evil (Picked it up on Steam Sale) is amazing! Everything set to max and even AAx4 and the game plays in the late 30's early 40's!! Looks very nice indeed! Its talking a little getting used to the controls though.. Bit clunky for my liking.

 

Download Quarl's texture pack for extra eye candy! Not sure if it'll bring the system to a standstill but the 1GB memory will certainly help. Having a SSD for fast streaming also helps on this game when running for long distances.

 

which one ? operation racoon city ??

 

Nice to hear it runs well, also the controls are deliberately clunky to build up a sense of claustraphobia and tension. Bit of a strange way of doing it but can be frustratingly effective at times!

 

what are your settings sir? Just curious. haha
I got it on my r2. very smooth indeed.

 

coo. thanks. got mine set on high, with the exception of shadows...kept that standard.

 

Just purchased Fear 3 and will be testing it on my R1. Will update once I've installed and played a bit!

[EDIT]

It runs very well, actually. Average 29fps throughout the first mission on a mix of high and very high settings. Higher framerate when a few settings are dialed down.

I'm a little surprised. I have the stock OC (1.6ghz) on my Core2Duo SU7300 cpu, a slightly OC'ed GPU, 8 gigs of RAM, and besides that all I'm using in Gamebooster.

Below are my settings:

Resolution: 1280 x 720
Vertical Sync: off
Shadow Quality: high
Texture Quality: very high
Ambient Occlusion: very high
Translucent Quality: high
Anti Aliasing: off

As I have yet to finish the game, there may be parts where these settings won't be so great (i.e. the mech suit battles). If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask!

 

It should be ok but this game does not need a 2.4ghz CPU to play...though I am waiting for the point where the fps breaks down on the R2.

 

Resident Evil 5, it was on sale a few days ago in Steam...

And yes, the game maxed out never drops below 30fps on the m11x...

YouTube - ‪Resident Evil 5 on the Alienware m11x (HD)‬‏

 

I bought James Bond Blood Stone on steam and will see how that fairs on the m11x when my internet quota resets.

EDIT: still playing fear 3 and made it past another mech battle in the 4 mission and it's still good

 

Ah good point! Yes I suppose it does work well.

I'm using an xbox 360 controller and keeping my mouse handy for some more accurate fast aiming when needed.

 

I had my first scare yesteray evening!

Installed GT Legends, at which it prompts a reboot to complete the installation. Windows starts booting up, but failed!

Fortunately it does this nice automatic repair and boots up, to which I promptly delete all the GT Legends files and run a system restore to an hour before.

I asked a few questions of my friend google and he pointed me in the right direction. Apparently Starforce DRM which comes with GT Legends messes up Windows 7 boot drivers! So yeah, useful to know, if anything else has it, or you install a game from 2007 that might have it...

 

yes, not a good thing. if there's a downloadable version on steam or D2D etc then they should not have the starforce drm.

 

I really wish this were true but Starforce is still present on STEAM games too.

 

yup, it's running smooth.... just like Dead Space 2....

I got "B" Rank at RE5 Benchmark.....

 

and fear 3 so far

 

here's a PDF of games that work on my m11x and it might be the same.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~johanna.lam/m11x_gps.pdf

 

I like how COD has an AR option so you can do faux 720p by adding 960x720 as a custom res as since the intel card fills the screen and the game knows the ratio conversions so you can get away with what is a faux 720p ie. anamorphic widescreen

 

Alice in madness return ?? does anyone already try it ? it is playable on R2 ?? seems interesting....

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/7608258-post2179.html

 

31 FPS ???

I will buy it and try the the "uncap" things that you mention....


thanks, I appreciate it....

 

Dungeon Siege III - runs wicked smooth but the best part is the game uses the Alienware Alien FX lights. As you take damage and get closer to death the light changes from green to yellow to red.

 

anyone tried F1 2010?

EDIT: I tried an old game Dark Sector on the m11x....works great, BUT (there's always a 'but') the game has horrible vert- issues when you play the game in fullscreen - the aiming reticles are not round they are oval and the hud is cut off at the top of the screen. i have done a quick search and found that the only way to fix it is to set the game into window mode and manually enter in the resolution of choice.

 

Here's a vid of someone playing it on the M11x R2 i5 ... seems playable at about 30ish FPS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk-4kZ46M8U

I don't know what drivers he's using, or what... so I'm going to guess that you could probably play at 1366x768 on "medium" settings with a R2 i7... maybe more if you're overclocked.

 

Just picked up Homefront from the steam sale...no issues with frame rate, but the audio is horribly out of synch...I am on an R1, upgraded to 4 gigs of ram..anyone else have any success with the sound, it drives me crazy!

Edit - it seems only during in game cut scenes is the audio out of synch, and it sometimes just stops. In game sound effects, or when I talk to people, is fine

 

i'd probably run it at 1024x576 if the game supports that resolution

 

guys, is the r3 really a big boost in games compared to the r1? I'm planning selling my beloved r1 to get a r3, but need some positive or negative comments about the r3

1. another thing is, is the r3 switchable graphics or uses optimus?
2. how's the r3 managing the heat? I want a m14x too but I've heard the CPU raises to +90oC

thanks in advance

 

Alice really lags on my R1. I tried it out on my dad's desktop which has the old but venerable setup of twin 8800 GS NVidia's. I ended up getting better performance with one card dedicated to PhysX.

My poor little m11x can't compete, unfortunately. I'd love to get one of those expensive Magma PCI to laptop card enclosures and somehow jury rig it to the m11x. Stick my old Ageia card on there, just to see if it does anything... Though I highly doubt that is possible- crazy idea there.

 

Hey guys... I installed the World of Warcraft free trial client on my Alienware M11x R2 thinking that I would be able to play for free...

only to discover that it won't let me log in with my battle.net account. I don't want to create another B.net account just to play WoW. Does anyone know a way around this?

I also found it funny that the WoW installer tried to dissuade me from installing it, saying that I "didn't meet the minimum system requirements"... hah.

 

Mass Effect 2 is only $5.00 on Direct2drive today. Hell of a deal!

Also, Frontlines Fuel of War only $5.00 on steam. (not a great game, but good deal)

 

There's no way to get around that, they made it so only NEW players gain access to the server, not people who are trying to get free game-time to their old accounts.

And if you're getting that from the WoW client, just whitelist it so that it's running on the Nvidia card.

 

I am sure that during the race (20 cars on the track), fps drops a bit in some places

 

Has anyone played Darksiders on an R1? How well does it run.

 

There's a pretty huge sale on Steam at the moment if anyone wants to check it out.

 

Runs well on an R1 Darksiders and M11x

 

Just curious, what settings are people playing New Vegas on with their M11x? Thinking of picking it up if it goes on steam sale one of these days

 

YouTube - ‪Fallout New Vegas on M11x r1‬‏

That is a video of an m11x r1 handling the game just fine in November of last year, the patches/drivers released for the 335m gpu and game have reportedly improved performance a little and I can only imagine the r2 and r3 iterations of the M11x running the game at better levels.

(A quick youtube search reveals far more)

 

New Vegas is not much of a resource hog. It runs without lag on my HP dm1z at medium settings and looks almost as good as everything maxed out on my Asus. I would not worry about it running on just about any alienware, and if you liked Fallout 3, you will like New Vegas.

 

I play fallout 3 @ max settings native resolution and everything is smooth
I imagine new vegas is fine too, I want a GOTY edition of new vegas, anybody knows if the game is worth it or fallout 3 is better?

 

New Vegas was ok, but still meh IMO. It sucked when compared to Fallout 3. It felt it was just missing something special. It had way too many glitches and issues when it was first released. Wasn't even made by the same developers (Bethesda Softworks) which sort of showed in the "lack of magic" that the Bethesda games have e.g. oblivion and fallout 3. Still worth playing though.

 

How does Dragon Age 2 run on the r1?? Can it run DA2 with the Hi-Res texture pack.

 

hey Ghost,

do you mean uncap the .ini file is the file config inside my document folder ??

in my local forum, someone manage to reach until 180 FPS. I didn't think he use an m11x, maybe he use the desktop. but he says he edited the .ini file by disable the Vsync, not by change the number for max smoothed frame rate.

 

there's an option in the ini file that has the max fps set at 31. to "unlock" it you gotta punch in a higher fps.

 

Valve are taking all my money with this Steam sale.

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising
Dawn of War 2: Retribution
Left 4 Dead 2
Red Alert 3: Uprising

My poor 1.5mb broadband connection is struggling!!

 

Same here....

bioshock
bioshock 2
riven
darksiders

plus the fact that I put in a new hdd so I am downloading fresh copies of all the rest of my games.... been downloading for about 8 days straight now.

 

DA2 works very well on high, not sure about the high-res texture pack... I don't think it'll realistically work well with optimum settings.

 

i bought....

HL Ep2
Alpha Protocol
Far Cry 2

the last 2 work fine