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    Max payne 3 on a r2/r3

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by squeak83uk2, Jun 1, 2012.

  1. squeak83uk2

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    anyone tried this today? is it remotley playable?
     
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    Unfortunately not. Although there is a spec tester thingy on the nvidia website!!! I'd like to hear if anyone's tried it too.
     
    tomcannon, Jun 1, 2012
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    I'm getting almost 8200 in 3dmark06 with my R2 i5
    I bet its playable with an R2
    it has played anything i threw at it so far.
    I just today downloaded the Batman Arkham City Demo and had excellent game play.
     
    GarTooth, Jun 1, 2012
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  4. squeak83uk2

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    well i saw somewhere that "low" settings requires a 450 series card, the lowest tested was a 8800gt so it will run,( thats why im kinda curious) but somehow trying to match to a 450 card is a little out of our little beats reach,

    i could be wrong though...

    anyway im downloading it ( may as well just risk it) as i post this... 29gb at 1.4 mb a sec, so i will be posting my experience soon :p
     
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    KK i have not had much time to mess with things, but at 1366x768, textures high shader high shadows high, and fxaa on normal, with everything else on normal, im getting about 30 fps minmum, depending on the scene

    any lower and you get GTA4 style square shading in the shadows and it looks really horrible, in some of the cut scenes even on these settings it still looks a little grainy,

    cant seem to get it to stay on dx10 to see if that makes a difference

    btw i have an R2 i5 with 8gig ram, and a 162 oc , no gpu oc
     
    squeak83uk2, Jun 1, 2012
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  6. Rishwin

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    Well that's cool, should run solid on the R3 then.
     
    Rishwin, Jun 1, 2012
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  7. steven_a1991

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    can u post a vid? i can't believe it will run on 335m..lol..so i don't waste 29gb of bandwidth..
     
    steven_a1991, Jun 2, 2012
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    ill try , cant promise it will be uber quality
     
    squeak83uk2, Jun 2, 2012
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    k, thanks..no offense though, just wanna see how smooth it is..
     
    steven_a1991, Jun 2, 2012
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    non taken :p, just managed to get my camera up and did a quick 2 min vid, 30-40 fps, which i (personally) can live with probally with a few tweaks and stuff it may get higher, just uploading the video to youtube atm be about 20 mins or so,

    having a camera blocking your screen makes it hard to shoot :p

    (and like i said the ai is pretty sharp, wish most games had Ai like this one

    there ya go ..... Max payne 3 Alienware m11x r2 - YouTube
     
    squeak83uk2, Jun 2, 2012
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    Sweet, shame I've been downloading all day and only got to 10%!
     
    tomcannon, Jun 2, 2012
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    Max Payne 3 runs great on my r1! Just make sure you have switched the graphics before you run it...

    And it just will not run on my m17x, won't detect graphics card and only runs onboard graphics, terrible..who would have thought that an m11x r1 is better than an m17x with nvidia 580m?!
     
    Gerry47, Jun 2, 2012
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    I don't know about the m17x's as I dont own one but I'm 100% sure the error is on your part, it will work on the 580m. Maybe it needs to be whitelisted?
     
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    what sort of settiings are you using gerry? and what sort of fps are you getting'?
     
    squeak83uk2, Jun 2, 2012
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    well if he's running on the onboard graphics then I'd imagine it's pretty unplayable.
     
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    On his R1, i mean...
     
    squeak83uk2, Jun 2, 2012
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  17. steven_a1991

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    wow, thank you very much..
    i still can't believe why such new game with good graphics is light, there are games with bad graphics but lags as it requires high requirements.
     
    steven_a1991, Jun 3, 2012
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    I always have trouble using DX 10.1 (it resets to DX9) and shows my GPU memory at 512mb? That's weird.
    Currently using 301.42 driver.
     
    DivineAura, Jun 4, 2012
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    Gerry47. how did you run on r1? i cant run it. crashing to desktop. but if i use the intel graphics it runs but when i swith to nvidia. wont run
     
    bolboli2, Jun 11, 2012
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    divineaura: go into steam command and do the "-adapter 1" input...it fixed mine
     
    MegaSquishyMan, Jun 12, 2012
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    On my r3 it runs at:
    dx 10.1
    1280x720(hdmi out to 55 inch samsung)
    everything on high
    it runs smooth as silk
     
    s2kgt, Jun 17, 2012
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