Rift on the M11x Discussion Thread

Do any of you play Rift on your M11x?

I'm getting disappointing frame rates in the game, topping out at about 20fps, but averaging 11-18fps. I don't have it on ultra settings, and all the settings that warn me of an extreme GPU or CPU intensive usage, I have completely turned off.

I'm afraid I don't quite understand the relationship between the Intel HD graphics (which I see in my system tray) and my graphics card. Regardless, I went into my nVidia settings and went through the process of manually setting my 3D settings to "High Performance NVIDIA processor".

Not only did not seem to make a difference, I think it may have slowed things down a bit.

Is there anything in the nVidia control panel I need to mess with? Does anyone have any settings outside of the game I need to adjust?

Thanks very much in advance for any help.

 

Ok I just changed my settings to "low quality render" and my framerate hasn't really changed.

There must be something wrong.

 

i play rift and its the same....

i normaly use the low quality render, but even when im on a rift or world event i get 7 FPS, and when im alone, w/o any rift near i get 30fps maximum with everything low exept the textures details, spell details, view and object distance.


it is really disappointing and dont know how to fix it, i have the game on the whitelist and custom settings for preformance and nothing changes

 

make sure the nvidia gpu is running

 

im sure, i see the game on the GPU Activity...

edit: and im using the lastest drivers from nvidia, i just download it and install it

 

What driver though? There are problems with most games 260.99 and above. And some even with 260.99. Try the Dell ones. And if you are using Dell ones I am not sure.

 

im using 266.58... ill downgrade to the lastest dell driver... and see how it works, but im not sure that i will be fixed

 

there is another topic that says that 266.58 runs better than the 260.99 and the dell ones are 257.30

edit: now im trying to play it with 160mhz OC from the bios and i cant :S it just close, ill try with another oc

 

This is most disturbing, I was thinking of trying the game out. LOTRO runs like a champ on ultra (med shadows) 1600x900. I am running stock dell drivers for the R2. I'll have to keep on eye on this to make sure that it's not something silly that is going on with the drivers. Best of luck!

 

I am running Rift on my M11x R2 at 30-40fps... all the time.

I am not using the low quality renderer, and i run the graphics at LOW...

I use 266.58, latest whql drivers fron nvidia, and i am running Rift on the high performance video adapter (nvidia) according to optimus.

Hope it helps

 

thats weird, dont u get fps drops on rifts???


if u dont, ill have to open and clean the notebook and format it to fix any windows problem (last format i made was like 6 month ago)

 

No problems here either - medium settings and it runs like a monster.

 

Phew, good to hear that this thing can get it's game on with a modern MMO. Great news guys. Glad to hear it's an isolated case. Maybe caused by dust(Over heating will cause throttling)?

 

Sure it's possible, but unless you live in a sandpit, I would check other things first.

Make sure that you are not running in "balanced" or "power save" mode - set the system up to run in high performance mode.

Next, make sure Rift is white listed - right click on the desktop, choose Nvidia control panel and then in the 3d settings, add Rift.exe to the list of programs and make sure it is set to use Nvidia as the graphics card.

Those would be the things I'd check first.

 

lol, anyway it's an easy fix and everyone should have a can of compressed air around.

 

only few ones with problems.... damn it... ill try to fix it

 

im using 260.99. or was, i already uninstalled the game (Roommate has worked on game for 3 years), but i was getting 30fps+ in the beta, and live version and i was on high settings....

m11xr2, im OC'd to 156, and running throttle.

 

do u think that a format, clossing some processes and/or using alienfx lite will fix my problems?? :S

 

I'm definately running this on high settings. and i havent felt any lag or and no fps drops. seriously it runs flawlessly for me. I was tempted to try ultra. but i figure performance is important for mmo's so i stuck with high settings. can't give u exact fps but it definitely runs really well.

 

im hating myself and my m11x right now.... what the hell is happening with my notebook that i have fps drops even on low render quality!!!! >.<

maybe formating???

maybe to much apps opened??? maybe dust on fan??

the only thing i know for sure, tomorow ill call support to change the motherboard or to clean it...

 

News Flash:

Rift is a fairly detailed game AND it's an MMO. People have trouble getting 30+fps in WoW with decent settings (in raids and such) so I don't know why it's surprising to you that RIFT is killing the machine.

My wife runs it on her M11x R1 with low quality rendering and low/medium settings depending on if she's questing or rifting and probably 30fps max. These machines are NOT going to run it any better than that.

If your machine isn't handling it, you probably need to wipe it and reimage. I wouldn't waste my time with Dell. Cleaning out the fan and silly stuff like that isn't going to help - you need to clean up the software environment.

 

Hey guys, I picked up Rift the other day. I have an overclcoked i7 R2. I have the power set to performance.

I get under 30 fps on medium settings. I'm just wondering if anyone else out there playing Rift has gotten it to run better? I've heard of throttlestop and overclocking the GPU...

If that's just the way it is, then no biggie. But I feel like I'm missing something.

 

I have an r1 and cpu gpu are overclocked but i get pretty poor performance. I can run it on high with select settings turned down and get 20-30fps depending on the area. Definatly overclock your gpu using afterburner or evga precision, it will get you an extra 5-10 fps depending on the clock and the game.

 

R1 Medium 35-40 FPS (shadow low), but my brother has my R1 right now.

 

I wish there was a trial for me to test my m11x, lol

 

Thanks for the replies guys. I guess I should be specific and say that the fps hovers around 30, but dips down to 25 and lower often. Thanks for the tip cryfreedom66, I'll look into one of those.

 

Tried both afterburner and evga. I just ramped everything up and there was no noticeable difference in FPS. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? I am pretty layman when it comes to PC's, especially when tinkering with specs... Any more help is greatly welcomed. Thanks guys.

 

You probably cant just ramp everything up it may have just reset your clock...

Try to set your clocks to what I have mine (in the signature) and give it a try. Make sure you hit apply, then hit ctrl 1 to save the profile. Once you do this enter the settings, go to the profile tab towards the bottom you should see "3d profile" make sure that it is set to profile 1. Should see some improvements...

 

Ahem...Those numbers in your sig, the 525, is that be the values that are synced? The the 850 the memory overclock, is that correct? Thanks for being patient and helping out. If I'm right on that, I'll try it out and let you know.

 

For the GPU, I maximized each value independently. With it synced, I was restricted by my shader clock. I'm not sure what the consequences of unsyncing the clocks though.

My values are:
540 Core Clock
1280 Shader Clock
905 Memory Clock

 

yes the core and shader sync together so increase the core to 525 and the mem to 850. Unlike the poster above me I was unable to clock past my current clocks without instability (tested using occt). If you want to go higher than I am suggesting than I recommend small increments and testing. I was clocked at 550/900 and was playing dragon age 2 fine after 15 minutes or so my screen locked up and my gpu would underclock (reset itself under the default speeds) so I would restart and gradually lower my overclock until it no longer did this. Takes ALOT of trial and error and everyones machines perform differently.

Are you overclocking your cpu? If not thats a whole nother story especially with the r2

 

Yeah just took a look myself. according to Rift I'm only getting 16 fps but it feels a lot more than that. Even in a big invasion it was still very playable so maybe the best advice I can offer is not tomget too hung up on a number - just play.

 

go ahead and try overclocking your gpu. right now mines stable at 570/900/1445

 

Iv got the R1 and i played Rift for the first time yesterday and i was getting 50FPS. and when i was recording with Fraps i was getting 25.30 Fps. when i started Rift it choose my Gfx for me. so i thought ok. so i done my char and what ever else and i was on like 20fps from the start of the game. i configed the setting to Ultra setting. and low rendering OFF and POW my fps jumped so high i codnt believe it. my m11x is not over clocked either...... give it a try

 

playing on an r1, mix of meduim and low settings and get about 20 fps all the time, drops to 12 on big rifts. the true test im worrin about is D3

 

New here, just got a R1 and am getting 25 to 30 frames on low..Any one have problems with the names showing up, untill I loaded the newest drivers they did not..

 

Any other R1 users playing this @ decent frame rate? I've got the core2, 4GB of ram, and am afraid to make the $50 purchase if it doesn't run decently.... Any updates would be awesome

 

All right ladies and germs. For your delectation, and following the Shogun 2 vid - just posted an M11x RIFT vid up. Enjoy

YouTube - Rift, on the Alienware M11x

 

I just ran rift on my m11x R1 on ultra defaults and got fps of 17-20. On medium i usually hover around 25-30. My m11x is pretty much stock build with the bios OC enabled, and 6GB of ram. I do have the latest Nvidia drivers from the dell site.

With an external display via HDMI my fps dropped between 9-18 on med-high settings.