All Alienware Laptop Gaming Videos Thread

Hahaha Yeh they started glitching out on me until I restarted. Of course it had to happen as when I was recording.

 

That just makes the recording more fun and interesting. Almost any game will do that under certain conditions. Of course, some are lots worse than others.

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Hahaha that's so funny. I love how he glitched off after he grabbed the gun. Yep.. That exactly what happen do a few of them zombies :laugh:

 

Yep, saw this too.

Nice find regarding the Arkham Origins SLI profile. :thumbsup:

3DCenter says the FC3 profile ( 0x081902F5) under DX1x also works but there is flickering indoors. Have you noticed any graphical glitches?

The master race will always find ways to make lemonade out of lemons but it doesn't excuse Capcom from a sh*t port job and Nvidia for poor driver support.

Also, this game seems to eat CPU's for breakfast and prefer more MHz to more cores, which is why you with your OC'ed 3920XM and 780M SLI are getting better performance than TotalBiscuit with his stock 3930K and single Titan even though GPU power between you two is similar.

VRAM usage also seems to be through the roof. Holy cow! This is reminding me so much of Watch Dogs. Can't wait for D2 Ultima to get a load of this. The next chapter of his tome: Dead Rising 3!

P.S. PCGamingWiki compilation of tweaks for Dead Rising 3 (updated over time): Dead Rising 3 - PCGamingWiki PCGW - bugs, fixes, crashes, mods, guides and improvements for every PC game

Forced mouse acceleration?!?

 

Cheers, yeah unfortunately I've noticed some graphical glitching indoors and in certain places at night. It's really annoying but not a deal breaker. Yeh the VRAM is slowly getting eaten as the level progresses. I didn't notice that. It feels about as well optimized as Watchdogs too

 

A couple more Dead Rising 3 SLI profiles to try (courtesy of 3DCenter):

0x08090275 (fixes flickering but scaling not great)

0x08022331 (seems to be the best so far)

 

This looks like a really cool game... I caught a glimpse of it in the new Area 51 teaser video and went looking for it.

It's a real shame that it will be ruined by being only a multi-player title (from what I can tell) like Titan Fall.

Below are trailers, a marketing video, and actual gameplay capture demo and review...

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Yeh this game looks fun. Its from the guys who conceived L4D2 so I'd have high hopes for it. But like you, only online and is a deal breaker. I wish games like this and BF still had bots to pracitce on atleast.

 

Hey Brother Octiceps, do you have a link for that by any chance ? I've scoured the earth for it and can't find it. I want to try " 0x08022331" but it doesn't come up with anything in Nvidia Inspector.

 

Type it in yourself and press enter?

 

Yep. I was being a goofer... Actually I did try that but I must have deselected the text box just before I hit enter on my first try.



Good profile! Nice one :thumbsup:Texture flickering has gone. I wish I had more time to test out the performance. I have a feeling it may be down but can't confirm either way for now.

 

0x08000275 also might be worth a shot. It's the same as one of the ones I suggested previously except with one flag removed.

IDK, everything I've seen so far from various forums and Nvidia beta testers indicates that SLI is a waste of time as DR3 is incompatible w/multi-GPU a la Rage/Wolfenstein. So you can't increase scaling without causing flickering or eliminate flickering without reducing performance. There is even negative scaling. :\

 

YAY! Bought metro redux bundle

 

if only crytek would do a crysis redux

 

Or they could just all get things right the first time do we don't need to buy it twice

 

i guess the last game (but not great, just good) is Ryse for PC since they sold off homefront to deep silver.

 

For those that don't browse the M18x/AW18 subforum...

 

i wonder if the evil within will be worth the buy?

 

It looks good but I'm waiting on a sale. I'm sure it will be far too overpriced on release.

 

Waiting for a sale is always a great idea. It looks awesome, but it is $59.95 to pre-order on Steam, so yeah... about 3 times what any game is actually worth, LOL.

 

atm greenmangaming has a coupon for 20% off for the game.

EDIT: 25% I mean

 

I can only think of 3 games on the horizon I might pay full for. GTA5, Doom 3 and Killing Floor 2.
Although $60 is asking far too much for digital downloads. It never stays that price for long.

 

I find more pleasure in waiting until I can buy three games I want for $60 instead of one. The last game I paid full price for is my favorite franchise (Crysis) but I think it took me a month to stop being angry with myself about doing it. Around 9 months later I beat myself up a second time for being stupid when I saw it go on sale for $20.

 

well ryse is out 4 days before the evil within so will get ryse and see how it fairs but the evil within is using the id tech 5 engine (like wolfenstein) so achieving 60fps should be doable.

 

Really this is the best approach. If we all did this they'd save us the time and release games for a more reasonable price.

I can't even begin to imagine what horrors await Ryse being ported to PC... or can Crytek do it right ?...

 

I loved Wolfenstein: The New Order, and it is one of the rare titles that is sufficiently captivating to distract the player from its serious shortcomings. That game engine is permanently broken and fundamentally flawed because it cannot use multi-GPU configurations and leaves the owners of high-powered systems and high quality displays with a mediocre ~60 FPS max experience that falls well short of everything their system is capable of. Part of this may be to accommodate the folks that insist upon trying to use pathetic hardware for gaming instead of placing them in a position where they are required to spend money and put up with a little more beef (size and weight) if they want to participate in the fun. So, it produces an advancing cycle of mediocrity purely for the benefit of the lowest common denominators in the gaming world.

Unfortunately, the new Doom is to have the same broken engine. To me, the fact that such a product exists supports the notion that some hold about game developers often being untalented shysters that are more concerned with profit than product quality and customer satisfaction. It also supports the notion that many gamers are endowed with stupidity in quantities that rivals the incompetence of developers.

 

That's really worrying. If there was ever a game that should be up to snuff for a PC enthusiast/gamer it's Doom and Wolfenstein. A little pride in their heritage wouldn't go astray while they line their pockets.
This really sucks too. I've read the new Doom will be more Doom 1/2-like rather than Doom 3 which sounds satisfying. But accepting another broken game gets harder every time. There's no good reason for it.

 

RIP 120/144 Hz and SLI. :cry:

EDIT: BTW I discovered that AMD users get perfect CrossFire scaling in W:TNO after enabling a setting in CCC. CrossFire works but SLI doesn't?! Why, Nvidia. Why.

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That's nice, but it's still apparently stuck at a less than impressive 60 FPS if that screen shot is accurate. So, that's kind of like throwing a brick on the accelerator pedal with the rear bumper chained to a tree.

 

A recent coop session of my all time favorite. L4D2. An oldie now...but always a blast playing with some buddies

 

Yeah, but at least you can take advantage of the GPU horsepower to improve image quality with high levels of supersampling, which is what the person is doing in that screenshot.

 

Some games never get too old to be awesome, and L4D2 is definitely one of them. (It is in my top 5 all time favorites.) It seems the expression, "They don't make 'em like they used to..." applies to lots of things, often including PC games.

Some of my timeless favorites, and in no particular ranking...

• L4D2
• Quake 2
• Quake 3 Arena
• Doom 3 (like BFG Edition best)
• Unreal Tournament (all variations)
• Crysis
• Crysis 2
• Crysis 3
• FarCry (original)
• Wolfenstein 3D
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• Wolfenstein: The New Order
• Painkiller (all variations)
• Bulletstorm
• Serious Sam (all variations)

...and, it always makes me extra happy when a game includes a benchmark tool, even when I don't necessary care a lot for the game itself.

 

I'll check it out when it comes out in october

 

Most of those are old-school or arena shooters. A man of my heart.

 

That's a great list there Brother Fox. You should maybe have a look at Killing Floor sometime. It's bloody and fun. Just no benchmark tool.

 

i can't tell if the performance of titanfall has improved or not!

 

I have it and like it... debated whether to include it on the list or not. Video needs a little more time to process at the time of embedding.

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Here's another oldie but goodie...

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If this video looks squashed, you're probably using Internet Explorer on Windows 8.X (it did for me).

Try Chrome, Firefox or Windows 7 instead and it should play at the correct 16:9 and 1080p by default.

Not sure what the deal is there, but maybe IE on Windows 8.X doesn't like the modified embed code.

 

New 344.11 WHQL driver that dropped today fixes the performance bug when recording with ShadowPlay/NVENC in SLI.

 

Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to check that out.

 

BTW if you're recording with Afterburner, make sure you've updated to version 4 so that NVENC plugin actually works.

 

I did that a few days ago. It works now and the benchmark runs, but the encoding performance was really crappy compared to the NV12. Hopefully, this new driver will fix that so it is equal or better.

 

It better work, otherwise Nvidia is incompetent.

GeForce Experience Introduces Dynamic Super Resolution: 4K-Quality Graphics On Any HD Monitor | GeForce

 

I will have to try it with ShadowPlay. From what I can tell using MSI Afterburner for video capture, this is a massive improvement. It seems that perhaps the NV12 plug-in is still a tiny bit better than NVENC H.264, but it is extremely close. If it is equally close with ShadowPlay it might be a slightly more elegant approach due to the integration and automated MP4 transcoding. It would be interesting to see if the performance and quality are equally close with a pair of GPUs with less horsepower than 780M.

See images in spoiler.

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Watch out for the latest version of GFE, I lost shadowplay as not meeting the minimum CPU - again. The old shortcut way works.

Update: BTW NV have pushed out a silent update to GFE and now the GPU's are listed as OK for Shadowplay.

 

Best solution: Use MSI Afterburner.

 

<del>ShadowPlay sucks. Just being turned on and not even using it creates an impairment to performance. Thie latest GeForce drivers fixed NVENC problems, but they left ShadowPlay broken.</del>

Edit: it's not broken... operator error, LOL - see post below

 

I don't see how it's broken? Leaving Shadow Mode on is supposed to have the same performance impact as manual recording since it's constantly recording in the background.

 

Ooops! My bad, I forgot to disable Shadow Time. You're right... it's not broken. Works fine and NVIDIA deserves more credit than I gave them in the previous post. So, here are some revised images that more accurately depict the situation. Clearly, with Shadow Time disabled things are as they should be. Good catch, bro!



Overclocked comparison of screen capture performance
MSI Afterburner versus 344.11 driver and ShadowPlay

 

Looks good, within margin of error, although I won't install ShadowPlay and GFE for reasons you already know about.