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    Running BulletStorm on M11x R1..!

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Salue, Feb 25, 2011.

  1. Salue

    Salue Notebook Consultant

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    Hey Guys i installed and played BulletStorm on M11x R1..!!
    and it Runs perfectly no log no nothing !! =D
    all settings on high except for shadow resoultion is on 1360 not 1366
    the game runs good no Lag it's OC to 1.6
    here's a pic of the graphics settings on the game :
    [​IMG]

    had to take it when when it was not on full screen :S oh well and ya here's a video of me playing it it's kinda short like 2min or so
    YouTube - BulletStorm on M11x R1
     
  2. passive101

    passive101 Notebook Deity

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    Who makes a 1360 resolution?!
     
  3. L1qu1d

    L1qu1d Notebook Evangelist

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    why save 6 pixels? might as well put it to 1366x768 :p

    What frames are you getting?
     
  4. MasivB

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    Good stuff. I thought people were having major problems with this game? How'd you manage it?
     
  5. kent1146

    kent1146 Notebook Prophet

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    1360x768 exists because PCs like resolutions that are in multiples of 8. 1366 is not perfectly divisible by 8, while 1360 is.
     
  6. MasivB

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    Exactly my HDTV doesn't like 1366 but does like 13 60
    So I'm glad it does exist otherwise I'd have to watch on 1024x768 to get fullscreen.
     
  7. Salue

    Salue Notebook Consultant

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    for alll u coming on the 1366 and 1360 thing

    i swear when i put it on 1366 i gets FPS lag >."< when it's on 1360 i dont get any lag :S am not jk or anything try it out and see for your selfs and oh ya i do have game booster on
     
  8. kent1146

    kent1146 Notebook Prophet

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    A guy walks into his doctor's office, and says: "Doctor, Doctor! It hurts whenever I do this!"

    So the doctor says: "Well, stop doing that then."
     
  9. Salue

    Salue Notebook Consultant

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    ya i know that >.> funny >.> ;p
    well i did my job :p i saw the other a topic people going crazy because the game was not playable on the m11x R2 am like then i tryed thank god ? it worked but gotta stay on the 1360 which i wont tell the difference ;p
     
  10. ajslay

    ajslay Overclocker, PC Builder

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    iv been playing this for 3 days, best game ever. but if you look at the system requirements, of course the games gonna run. with my gpu and cpu overclocked gpu at 575/1300/910. feels like im gettins 50+ fps
     
  11. Salue

    Salue Notebook Consultant

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    my CPU is OC like i said but the GPU is not OC i dont think i'll ever OC it
    am happy that the M11x R1 is running the game :3
     
  12. ajslay

    ajslay Overclocker, PC Builder

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    yeah thats true. but with the OC the m11x is only at 1.6ghz and not 1.73, unless you did a pinmod.
     
  13. Salue

    Salue Notebook Consultant

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    ya that is true it's at 1.6 i did not pinmod i dont think i will lol >.<"
    i say 1.7 because when i OC it just says 1.7 so i just kinda got used to it lol
     
  14. ajslay

    ajslay Overclocker, PC Builder

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    haha yeah true, if you have an ICS pll its pretty easy to do the pinmod, takes like 5 minutes for the actual procedure. the big part is getting your m11x apart.
     
  15. vorob

    vorob Notebook Deity

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    also tried on r1 and its slide show... and there are only 20-30% gpu load, so cpu is bottleneck here. Or i don't know...
     
  16. ajslay

    ajslay Overclocker, PC Builder

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    cpu isnt the bottleneck, look at the system requirements. theres some sort of incompatibility of some kind i believe. runs amazing on my part tho.
     
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    bavman Notebook Evangelist

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    Anyone knows how to get fps for benchmarking purposes? Ive always used fraps but for some reason it wont show up in this game
     
  18. L1qu1d

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    dude I just tried this on my R1 changing the 1360x768 in COD black ops...and I dont know if it was just a conincidence or anything but gameplay is smother now....

    Can any1 explain this???? LOL 1366x768 it has random 15 fps drops...now I played 40+ no problems on WDM 9v9 textures high, tri but everything else low.
     
  19. ajslay

    ajslay Overclocker, PC Builder

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    wow thats extremely weird, thats only a 6 pixel difference?? there shouldnt be any performance improvements lol
     
  20. squeak83uk2

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    wouldn't it be 6 x 768 = 4608 pixels, since you are working out an area ( W x H )
     
  21. ajslay

    ajslay Overclocker, PC Builder

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    no they get better performance at 1360x768 not 1366x768. 6 pixes difference.
     
  22. Salue

    Salue Notebook Consultant

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    as said the alienware M11x gets better preformence at 1360
    who cares really WE wont tell the difference :p we tell the difference when it lags :p so 1360 ftw!! ;p
    Liked the Whole black Ops at 1360 comment ;p
     
  23. ajslay

    ajslay Overclocker, PC Builder

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    thats true man, even at 1024x768 i bairly see a difference. but still there should be a fix.
     
  24. Salue

    Salue Notebook Consultant

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    ya lol a fix would be nice
    when i play League of Legends on 1360 i notice the difference only in LoL tho ;p
     
  25. ajslay

    ajslay Overclocker, PC Builder

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    i might have to try that game, but i run all my games at 1024x768 at max textures and everything else off. thats how iv always done it, but the gpu in the m11x should have no problems with bulletstorm whatsoever, so its pretty interesting a 6 pixel difference can do so much
     
  26. Salue

    Salue Notebook Consultant

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    try it it's really fun =D but i dont think it would be fun in mulitplayer XD and ya every thing number pixel counts in the M11x we must share it ;p
     
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    ajslay Overclocker, PC Builder

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    yeah, most of the time its cpu bottleneck for the m11x =p
     
  28. Salue

    Salue Notebook Consultant

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    ya true! ;p but the pinmod thing is nice i wanna do it ! but amafraid of like taking my m11x apart;p
     
  29. vorob

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    Lol i'm also expressed boost of performance when i switched from 1366 to 1360. 13>>50
     
  30. Duffking

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    Yeah this game's broken a bit - it doesn't fully utilise the GPU if you're using a 16:10 resolution or if both halves of your resolution aren't fully divisible by 8, for some reason. Runs like a dream on my R1 on 1360x768
     
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    Anyone give a FPS min and max? Also trying l1qu1ds idea.
     
  32. leo6love

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    my settings are:
    antialiasing: none
    vsync: off
    resolution: 1360x768
    Postprocess: Medium
    texture: high
    shadow: high
    world detail: high

    I get 25-60 frames per second, it depens on the environment, indoor or outdoor, quite smooth. decreasing the postprocess quality makes frames rate much higher.

    if I change the resolution to 1366, it's completely unplayable beccause frame rate never get higher than 20 :p.
     
  33. Salue

    Salue Notebook Consultant

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    hahha nice nice XD i put everything on high ;p as u see in the pic XD antialaising can be done also ;lp about the 1366 lololol i was amazed how we get better preformence ;p and everyone didnt believe me XD
     
  34. leo6love

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    bulletstorm seems like a must-buy game, funnest FPS game I have ever played. its definitely suitable for M11x :D
     
  35. Salue

    Salue Notebook Consultant

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    hey ya but i highly Multiplayer will be all that fun XD because Teams just go and like blow zombies and such :p cant kill each other and throw each other XD
     
  36. trikan

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    it's by no means the best fps ever made but its quite fun and a great break from all the hyper real army crap lately.