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    Tips for Battlefield Bad Company 2 on R1

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by HTWingNut, Jan 26, 2011.

  1. HTWingNut

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    Anyone have any suggestions to get Bad Company 2 running well on the M11x R1? I have it set to directx 9 and all low. It runs half-way decent but get occasional slowdowns and spikes. I'm running CPU at BIOS overclock (1.6GHz) and GPU at stock speeds. I don't know that a GPU overclock will help much.
     
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    Turn down every setting to low or off except for textures, make that medium so u can see through tree branches.

    OC and Tstop your CPU and OC your GPU using EVGA. Also, BC2 gets better FPS if u have a cool computer. I elevate mine of teh desk about 3 inches.
     
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    exactly what blab8811. I fan is a must have in this pc. It improves the performance a lot. I use evga precision that helps too. But I heard that BC2 ( have it on ps3) it uses a lot of cpu so it might not work that well
     
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    Thanks for the suggestions. I think you're referring to your R2 with the i5 CPU which would run faster if cooler because of turbo. This wouldn't affect the SU7300, nor does Throttlestop work with it.
     
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    stevenxowens792 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Ht - search for my battlefield bad company 2 optimization thread. I have a whole write-up on it. Loads to read.

    Best Wishes, StevenX
     
    stevenxowens792, Jan 27, 2011
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    Oh yeah I recall vaguely you did do that...
     
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