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    Team Fortress 2 & M11x R2

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by HighLife420, Mar 14, 2011.

  1. HighLife420

    HighLife420 Notebook Guru

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    Anyone play TF2? How are you making out in terms of game play.

    Trying to up my frame rate in this game and WoW...

    I get drops to 15-17fps in fights....even with everything set to low.
     
    HighLife420, Mar 14, 2011
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    jeremyshaw Big time Idiot

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    I'm dling it right now to find out :) (got it in steam, just never bothered playing it).
     
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    to show FPS, go to console and type cl_showfps 1

    let me know. Im getting like 15-20 FPS during a fight with maybe 10-12 people on the screen.
     
    HighLife420, Mar 14, 2011
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    You should be able to max that game out easy with no framerate problems. TF2 takes like nothing to run it on max. Make sure its whitelisted and such.

    System requirements
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    Operating system Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
    CPU 1.7 GHz 3.0 GHz
    Memory 512 MB RAM 1 GB RAM
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  5. HighLife420

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    one would think so, but im afraid thats very very far from the truth.

    With everything set on low and you engage in a battle with a few people firing at once, the FPS drops SIGNIFICANTLY.

    There is NO way that a person can play a game like that with fps in the 15 range...its almost a slide show at that point.
     
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    You should really be able to run this game max...the M11x is far better at gaming than my other 3 year old gaming laptop and it can run TF2 at max. I'll check later on my M11x to be sure.

    Things to check...do you have the latest Dell drivers?
    Are you using any fancy AlienFX lighting while gaming? Having a morph or pulse setting while trying to play Starcraft 2 took the game from perfectly smooth to nearly unplayable for me.
    Are you on the high performance setting in the battery options?
     
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    i am using 266.58 drivers from nvidia, was using 258 from dell site...

    Am using just plain solid lite keyboard and such for lighting

    Im on High performance mode and adjusted my advanced settings to run 100% min and max.
     
    HighLife420, Mar 14, 2011
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    Use the Nvidia card, this games runs almost maxed out at 1366x768 at around 50fps, maybe 35-40 in busy areas.....
     
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    ajslay Overclocker, PC Builder

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    you need to whitelist steam
     
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    steam is whitelisted, the drivers show that the game is using the nvidia GPU.

    I can get up to 100fps in area with no one around, however, when the fight starts its drops to 15-20, depending.
     
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    260 drivers let me set pretty much everything to max at 1080p, its unplayable on 266 drivers due to strange stuttering, oh well
     
    trikan, Mar 14, 2011
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    is it during battles or just stutters period?
     
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    constantly, just some kinda bug i assume, it actually runs fine, just some strange constant rubberbanding.
     
    trikan, Mar 14, 2011
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    thanks for info, i have a r2 and not even playing online as yet...just practice.
     
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    My R2 would struggle with large 30 player servers.
     
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    fix up that m11x, that dont sound too good!
     
    trikan, Mar 14, 2011
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    The game is a CPU dependent game like BFBC2. Maxing it out won't make TOO much of a FPS difference. So, max or bust.
     
    AlienTroll, Mar 15, 2011
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    if you mean the stranger intermittant stuttering, than that's a game issue (I think related to mobile HDD powering down too quickly, as my SSD and desktop's 2TB WD Green don't exhibit this, but my laptop drives - all three of them in three different systems, exhibit this behaviour in TF2).
     
    jeremyshaw, Mar 17, 2011
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    I should have been more clear, the game runs like smooth sweet beautiful butter on the 260 drivers, while it still technically runs the same (fps) wise on the 266, there is a strange constant stutter when you move and pan the camera, like a tiny rubber-banding.
     
    trikan, Mar 18, 2011
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