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    R2 DX11 compatible?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by kai333135, Feb 22, 2011.

  1. kai333135

    kai333135 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Dragon Age 2 is gonna use DirectX11

    Is the m11xr2 i5 compatible?
     
    kai333135, Feb 22, 2011
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    Bakkasan Notebook Consultant

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    Bakkasan, Feb 22, 2011
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    bavman Notebook Evangelist

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    Its not really a big deal because its not powerful enough anyways to fully take advantage of dx11
     
    bavman, Feb 22, 2011
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  4. Digital Dissent

    Digital Dissent Notebook Consultant

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    Short answer? No.
    Long answer? No.

    That wont stop you from running dx11 games, you just wont see the dx11 graphical features.
     
    Digital Dissent, Feb 22, 2011
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  5. darkdomino

    darkdomino Notebook Deity

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    I've been playing the Dragon Age 2 demo on my M11x R2 and there are two settings. You can run the game in DX9 mode at medium settings, and expect to get about 30-50 FPS (give or take, sometimes it dips to 27 FPS during spell explosions)

    The game will let you enable DX11 mode, but your framerate will drop to 20 FPS fairly quickly, and for me that's not a playable framerate... especially for a game as "click intensive" as this one.

    Also if you want my honest opinion... DX9 and DX11 look about the same on my M11x R2. You won't enable DX11 and go "WOW THIS LOOKS SO MUCH BETTER" ... the visual differences are subtle at best.

    That's my .02 - I hope this answers your question.
     
    darkdomino, Feb 22, 2011
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  6. Digital Dissent

    Digital Dissent Notebook Consultant

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    Thats because your not actually running dx11. When you enable that mode its running, at best, dx10, and between dx9 and dx10 the differences are subtle. Dx11 is a substantial improvement with definetely noticeable improvements, but this machine isnt capable of rendering them.
     
    Digital Dissent, Feb 23, 2011
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    Just remember that the 200 series is Dx 9 & 10
    The 300 series is 10.1
    And the 400/500 series is 11
     
    MasivB, Feb 23, 2011
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