*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M15x Owners Lounge - Part 4

i run bc2 at med/high setting using dx9, all maxed out is really choppy during intense fire fights. haven't played it while oc'ed yet but will gave it a try when i have some free time. if you like wm2 then i highly recommend this game also, pretty much the same thing but you can destroy almost everything in this game and alot more vehicle action.

 

You have got to be kidding!!! I'm not doubting you but this is becoming unbelievable. Maybe the reason not many people have a problem with theirs is because you are getting all the lemons. Hopefully #5 will be a winner or if it was me I would be looking for another machine. Fingers crossed for you.

 

Get Dante's Inferno. It's pretty much godofwar but a little diffrent.. you can download a demo on the playstation network. check it out.

Also i'd recommend assasins creed2...pretty awesome game

Yup That's the one... so has it solved the problem?

Now hold on are you talking about OC'd? I ran it OC'd and got much better fps...can't remember exactly right now, but i'll keep you updated. ANd it was Crysis (not warhead). Sadly, i don't got any of those games (mw2 on ps3, res5 on ps3...) but i have and play farcry2 alot... Get low-to-high 30s everything maxxed out ( even AA) when OC'd.

And hey i just Downloaded Borderlands today and that game is friggin addictive! Played it 5 hours straight! AWESOME game... anyone have it? you can play co-op or muliplayer on it... would be cool to try! PM me if you don't have it... i can help you out . I want a game buddy .

But yea borderlands isn't very demanding...and get 45-60fps on stock clocks...everything maxed!

You do have to go in the .ini files to tweak the game before you play it though...because it looks like crap at first, and all the graphic settings are in the .ini files...

 

Bad Company 2 is a GREAT game.

The game runs better if you just force DX9 on it.

 

yea...but looks crappier

 

I have to agree, to have it 5 times and still be ho-hum about it . I'm sure most people are having a great experience with theirs.

Most people who had this many returns would be annoyed at this point. At least ask for more than just a replacement!

Perhaps you're Buddhist, have bought the M15x as a spare machine or you're working for a competitor to Alienware and trying to scare away their potential customers

Don't believe it folks, it's a solid built machine for most of us, or is it just mine?

 

I just bump down the res to 1280x720.. I know it's a pity in some ways, but it's still HDReady gaming, so fine for me. If it runs smooth at 720 instead of choppy at 1920 then I'm happier with the better visual quality and slightly lower res.

720 makes many games more readable also, 1080 can be a bit much for text and stuff sometimes

I'm not really a resolution junky- prefer visual quality and frame-rate combo over highest res. (I'm already defending myself cos I expect to be attacked as a resolution-blasphemer lol)

 

i'm on my secong M15x right now, the first had a dead pixel, had a tech come by to replace screen, long story short, he kill it and i got a new one.

 

soooo.....when is the next M15x refresh? I've been waiting for the refresh since Jan...don't know how much longer I can last. My Toshiba is breaking apart.

 

lmaoo... yea same here...DX9 just don't cut it... i like all the fancy visuals an don't mind turning down the res. I just like everything to be REAL puuurrty loll

 

Nooo ideaaa....could be another while.. but patience is a virtue, and i'm sure it'll be worth it... or you can just get one now, with advanced care...and when a new one comes out... smash your laptop, and have them replace it hehe...it never gets old

 

LOL dont give me ideas...but I've been waiting so far, so I can still wait for a bit. Regardless even now the GTX 260m is pretty solid. I'm guessing in the refresh the M15x will likely get the 5850, which even with GDDR5 is not much faster than the GTX 260m

 

yea the 260M is real solid. Amazing card to overclock 20-25% gains... You can get it outperformaning a stock 280m by quite a bit!

 

This review:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Alienware-M15x-Gaming-Notebook.22280.0.html

Seems to suggest that power supply gets up to 56.9 °C, I assume under load. That sounds very hot, almost hot enough to burn yourself, especially for little kids. Can anyone comment on how hot the power supply gets.

That review also says the bottom of the machine gets to about 48 °C under load. That is also very warm. Is that your experience? If so I guess no-one is using this on their lap?

 

Yeah it is, indeed very hot on the bottom. But man this thing is huge, I rarely place it on my laps, and when i do im not playing games, so it does not get much hotter than any other laptop... Unless you're naked, you should not have prob with heat!

 

Ah well, there go my naked gaming plans...at least the wife will be happy

 

Still not working... >.< Still get the "The Changes made were invalid and were not applied" popup... Any other ideas?

 

Actually VBM19D1Q is the firmware and if you've got an SSD from Dell with this it means you've got no TRIM and currently no comeback short of getting it replaced. I think you can expect to have this is if you ordered last year. I've seen more recent Dell Samsung SSD (as in February 2010) with VBM24D1Q, which apparently does support TRIM. See this thread:
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19310219/19679381.aspx?PageIndex=7

 

Make sure you are in High performance mode (power options) and that STEALTH mode is disabled..

Just in case you didn't try that already

 

hey!! has anyone tried the Targus Campus Laptop Backpack XL. Just need to check if m15x fits in nicely..

http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&sku=460-10228

 

Thanks for the correction,don't have the ssd myself and saw a report with that in there. i suck

 

Should fit it nice and snug, as the notebook compartment is just short on the depth and width of the laptop, but not by much. You got an extra inch on length though, so you should be good. I fit mine in a bag made for a laptop with smaller dimensions than this one, and it still managed to fit. ( just just though, but thats how i wanted it )
As long as you don't got the bulky 9cell batt, that is...

 

Yo, my unda-cova-brotha-from-anotha-mutha (gotta love Rush Hour lol)...
have you fired up borderlands yet ?

 

not yet didn't have the chance yet, got to pump up last night, so had spend some quality time with my lady last night.

man forgot it was an 8 parter, man 7 more download.:SLEEP: :SLEEP: :SLEEP: :SLEEP:

 

Hey, those anyone here have Fall out 3 working without any random freeze/crashes?

 

Yeah

works solid here.. patched up to the latest (1.7 is it?)..

I played it through then went back and modded it with 20+ mods. Then it crashes sometimes.

Did you change any settings? I was using the 195.62 driver..

 

hmm, didn't really change anything. when i play it i'd get random 1 fps outta no where then there's times where it just freezes and i gotta close with task manager. I'm also using the 195.62 drivers and patch 1.7. i tried turning vsync off seeing how it helped some but guess not me and tried setting the affinity for the cores which just made it crash quicker.

What settings are you using for your game Mr Pras?

 

man i'm an idiot, had my external hard drive connected and put in a blank dvd in my lappy. instead of formatting my disk, i accidentally formatted my external driver "double face palm" i'm so retarded. man just one of those days. trying recover what i can from the external right now. :confused2:

 

OUCH!

This is a huge fear of mine >_<!

 

Hi,
Can someone tell me how I can get 7.1 audio from my m15x display port?
Also I am able to play games only in stereo( I have checked all the sound options and enabled surround sound too in the games menu) .How can I play games with surround sound?

 

I run it at max everything at 1920x1080 (no aa and 8xaf). It runs sweeet! Mostly 60fps inside and 30-60 outside.. Smooth enough

 

No worries mate after all the help you've provided around here we're happy to forigve you such a minor mistake.

I've just had a clean install of Windows 7 etc. After my previous problems with Aliensense not working from the previous clean install, happy to say this time no problems (don't know why).

But I've another issue: shortly after checking out Display / Calibrate color, my M15x displays only grey colours! Using 192.62 drivers. Have reinstalled the drivers to no avail. Interestingly, every time I boot up I've got colour until just after the login screen, when the desktop appears. Then I've got colour for a few seconds before the screen refreshes and it's all grey again. Bizarrely the external display still manages to show full colour. I've tried changing the colours in NVIDIA Control Panel but no cigar.

Any help appreciated.

Actually solved for now at least after uninstalling and installing drivers again (one more time with feel!) and it's colour again.

 

Hey guys does anyone know if the mobo on our laptop supports port multiplier for the eSATA port? Im planning on buying the Thermaltake BlacX Duet and people are saying you need port multiplier support on your eSATA to be able to use both HDD bays at the same time. USB connection have no problem though but eSATA is for the win(transfer speed)! M15x will benefit from this device since we can only put 1 HDD in our machine... specially to us using SSD drives with very limited space. BTW this thing supports 2.5" & 3.5" HDD!

Anywho does our eSATA port support port multiplier?

 

Does anyone know how to update the firmware in the intel SSD X-25m? I can't seem to load the page form the intel download centre.

 

Multitouch with two or three finger!!
this is not the official update but it work great
It make the scrolling easier than using the scrolling Region with one finger

When you use one finger it's like you use the mouse normaly and when you use 2 finger in same time it scrolling in the direction you want.

I also feel that the touchpad is smoother than before. But I can be wrong for this point because I wasn't using much

enjoy



http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?p=44505922#post44505922


Pour les francophones, j'ai trouvé cela sur: http://www.journaldugeek.com/2010/0...votre-ordinateur-portable-devient-multitouch/

 

Is there anybody able to access the intel download centre? I've been trying to download the firmware update file from intel download server but i somehow cannot access the website. Can anyone try it out? http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18363

 

Hold on a sec... i'm at work right now so i cant tell...but are you Saying this is a new driver for the m15x

I was just talking about this recently! saying how they REALLYY need to update the driver... and have you tried the multitouch? those options wer in the old drivers as well but didn't work... Can't wait to get home and test it out for myself +rep if works

 

I repeat, this is NOT an official update ^^ I found it in the web

The multitouch work well, but it cannot zoom like the Iphone. which is not important. You can scroll easly than before and you can configue the three finger touch.
I'm not a native english speaker, I can't explain well how it work. sorry

 

i have the firmware on a disk but didn't bring it with me to work, if your still unable to download and can upload it for you tonite.

i tried out scribe about a week ago, and it wasn't to smooth on the M15x because of the synaptic driver and the M15x doesn't mix well.

 

I tried installing that touchpad driver but it didn't give me any options for multi scrolling. I checked the settings and all that but nothing

 

hey Gruiik! Works Great!!! Amazing!!! thanks alot +rep to you (comme je t'avais dit ) Wow InappropiateName remember when i was saying how i wish the m15x had multi-touch support? Well it now DOES this is awesome!!

1,2,3 finger touch all works great! exactly like the apple's touchpad minus the pinch zooming like Gruiik said! Nice and responsive too!

If anyone needs help just ask, i'll be glad to help you out I'll be Gruiik's English spokesperson hahaha lol... This is Definately going in my sig

 

^^^sweet got to gave it another try then, still try to recover my external right now, d'oh.

 

don't know what you did wrong, but it was a breeze for me to install it ! Make sure u did the following:

1. Download the driver provided by Gruiik.
2. Go to Control Panel/Programs and Features/ and find the Synaptics driver, and uninstall it.
3.Restart.
4.Install the new driver you just downloaded.
5.Restart.

and Bingo! You're done! 2finger scrolling is enabled by default. To enable 3 finger swipes (which is awesome for picture slideshows and browsing! havign so much fun hehe lol) Go to:

1.Taskbar and click the little arrow near the batt meter and time, to show hidden icons.
2.Right-click synaptics icon and then click "Pointing Device Properties"
3. Click the "Device Settings" tab ( the last one).
4. Click the "Settings" button.
5. This now opens all the setting options for this device! Tweak as you want! But for the 3finger swipe go to the last option "Application Gestures/Three-Finger Flick and make sure there's a checkmark in the box.

There's even a short video that shows you how to do the gesture so that it works properly.

If you did all these steps, it'll work 100%. Let me know if you STILL can't get it to work

 

Yea Sorry to hear about that Thats a real downer man...but i know how it feels. i once lost 60gigs of music that i ONLY had on my ipod. When i plugged it into my new comp, i ACCIDENTLY clicked Sync this ipod with this pc and erase all data. Horrible stuff....

Good luck man hope u didnt lose all that much!

 

worked pretty well for me... way to go... now we have multi touch!!!!

 

BTW who needs pinch gesture when we can zoom in and out using the two finger vertical scroll

 

When you say responsive, do you mean it moves smoothly like a normal touchpad should? Or is it still a bit jittery like it is with the default windows/synaptic driver?

 

I'm happy to hear that it work well with other peoples

We should give the link to Dell XD

 

You guys are the "Bees Knees"

 

And thx to Jstarnino who explain well how to install it.
I was running out of time to do it and too tired as well

Pinch zooming work for you ? I can't find this option