Razer Blade Owner's Lounge

I think it is running off of integrated graphics and I cant change it. Ive tried creating a profile in the settings but it doesn't seem to be working

 

just got the game. will install myself and see.

chugging at about 15fps at 1080p... will tinker a little more. did not apply the massive 10 gb patch yet either.

 

I have read that the razer can handle this game on high settings in 1080p.. I wonder what is going on

I dont see how I can run Mass Effect 3 on the highest graphic settings a 1080p at a steady 50-60FPS and not witcher 2 on high...

 

i dunno about running everything at high settings at 1080p... i was able to eek out 20fps for the most part still keeping textures maxed out. will try 720p next. the m14x folks also had some issues with this game. should get similar performance results as them.

 

This is what they said in the Kotaku review


The Witcher 2: Here's where I was expecting the Blade to really choke. Considering the problems my high-powered gaming desktop had running The Witcher 2 at launch, surely the Blade would trip over its own sword and fall on it here. Damn CD Projekt for their patches and fixes, ruining my fun. Again the Blade managed to perform admirably under all but the highest settings, though of course the lower the graphics the better the performance.


Am I missing something here?

 

All but the highest means at 720p The Blade should perform well.

 

Thanks. Hmm, well the good news is you got a response, the bad news is they need photographic evidence deemed "worthy" of needing to be sent in and cleaned. Although "particulate" making its way after the fact is different than visible fingerprints that were introduced through careless handing in the assembly process.. You should mention fingerprints on a highly visible part of the unit should be covered.. as it points to carelessness on their part. Imagine if fingerprints were on the back of the LCD display for instance. (And let's face it, one of the other reasons for considering the Blade besides weight is looks!)

Also you're in SE Asia IIRC so sending it in might be problematic I'm guessing...

 

running great at 720p here as well actually. 1080p just too choppy. run almost all my games at 1080p by the way, but witcher looks better at 720p with all bells and whistles turned up rather than high res with all on low settings.

 

Sounds like they changed their tune when they realized this problem was more widespread than they had hoped. What they told me was that there should be no dust or fingerprints under the lcd keys. Something about the assemblers not wearing gloves when they should. I dont recall the exact convo but at no point was I told that "Some particulate is going to appear under the Switchblade module". Who the heck pays 3 grand to look at dust under their keys? That would be like Apple saying it's normal for the iPad to come with a few particles stuck under the glass lol. Sounds like backpeddling to me. Glad I got my 3 grand back especially if they are releasing a refresh soon. Will pass on that too unless they up their QC and ditch that friction inducing plastic which is the trackpad.

ps about dust working its way in after the fact. How? If this lcd assembly is supposed to be a sealed unit? I think thats what I heard at least.

 

Blade owners, what model SSD do you have in your Blade?

 

It's a Lite-On.

 

I was curious what model Lite-On actually. I just recieved my new Blade Friday the 20th and my Blade has the LCT-256M3S. I was under the impression that the Blade came with the M2S which is the an older model SSD. It was a pleasant surprise to see a faster SSD than what I thought I was going to get.

 

i have a 512gb ssd just begging to go inside my Blade....

 

Let me know if that works out for ya

 

It can be done. But not looking to void warranty.

 

Hi
any news on a smaller Razer Blade ?

which is better AW m14x or Razer Blade ?

Thanks

 

"Better" is a relative term. Performance-wise, the M14x is better, of which the R2 version was just released. Ivy Bridge CPU's should be released tomorrow, and you can get a quad core in the M14x R2 and the GT 650m is significantly faster than the 555m. If you want small, go with the Clevo W110ER / Sager NP6110. Has similar guts to the M14x but in 11.6" form factor, 35W dual or quad core i5/i7 and GT 650m (with DDR3 instead of GDDR5 though). The Blade is the thinnest 17" notebook with a dedicated GPU. So choose which is "better" for your personal tastes.

 

Personally I think alienware's support is among the worst I have ever had to deal with. It cost me one of my jobs and nearly cost me another. I never recommend alienware to anyone. I own a blade and love it! Had to rma due to hinge issues and the experience has thus far been top notch.

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I dunno ymmv for support from any vendor. I bought a refurb M11x R1 for $500 and had few issues that were resolved immediately, next day tech at my house, etc. All that for a $500 refurb. It impressed me.

 

The techs they sent out had no idea how to work on my m18x. One of them couldn't figure out how to put it back together and left me with a mess for a week. But that's my personal experience and from what ive heard its isn't typical
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Such is the problem when a company sub-contracts out that work. The quality of individual you get can vary wildly.

 

I agree
& I wish Razer
makes a smaller laptop soon

 

hate that i can't get sonic generations to run on anything but the intel gfx on this thing. really fun game. not razer's fault, lame nvidia hasn't fixed it yet... or I can blame sega.

 

I heard a 2.0 refresh might be coming with Ivy Bridge and a possible 650m. Does anyone know when this refresh might come and if there are any confirmations to the rumours?

Thanks.

 

refresh will come at some point, but wouldn't hold my breath until 3rd quarter. maybe 4th. if you can wait that long for a new laptop. I remember selling my M18x and Macbook Air for the Blade back in October, then waiting for the Blade to finally come out in January. won't sell my current blade till it launches.

 

Well, I want something smaller for school and I was either looking at the M14x R2 or the refreshed Blade.

 

damn tabloids

 

Did you hear that the next one is going to Levitate? And read your mind while playing games.

 

installing tera on my blade now. hope it plays well. also saw they have the Blade notebook sleeve at the razer store, $49.

 

I'm having an issue running my ubuntu virtual box. Apparently the blade doesn't support VT-x even though the i7-2640M does... Intel® Core? i7-2640M Processor (4M Cache, up to 3.50 GHz) checked the bios for options to enable it and no dice :/ calling tech support now in case I'm missing something. It will really suck if I can't run my android dev suite on the go

 

Please post back with your results, I had a similar problem.

If they say something like "We don't think our users want that", I'd be happy to call them up too.

 

That's exactly what they told me :/

 

I emailed them few weeks ago about VT. This is their reply:

We have forwarded your request to the engineers, and VT support may become an option ion the BIOS with a future update, but at this time we have no ETA for this update.

 

Lame. Not a huge deal for me I was able to compile android source using cygwin but I kinda miss my virtualbox

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How to install Windows 8 Consumer Preview on the Razer Blade
Ok so I will keep this post updated as I expirement with different drivers and applications. (BENCHMARKS coming soon!) Anything marked with an * is an optional step
You cant just do the upgrade method it will BSOD right in the middle of setup so that means fresh install wooo!
Things you will need:
Windows 8 iso here
Windows 7 USB Tool here
CloneZilla Live iso here*
Tuxboot here*
The drivers listed

Spoiler

From Here Download the Audio, Lan, USB3, and Synapse 2.0 drivers. Then download this beta driver for the Intel Gpu. Go to nvidia.com select the gt555m and windows 8 and download those drivers as well

An external harddrive of at least 20gb*
A USB drive of at least 8gb
Patience and (most importantly) your brain.
Backing Up Your System*
After you have downloaded Tuxboot and CloneZilla plug your USB thumb drive into the Blade.
1.) Run/Install Tuxboot point it to your thumbdrive and the CloneZilla ISO and click start.
2.) After that is done plug in your external harddrive and reboot the computer.
3.) Hit F12 at startup and select the entry that is your USB thumbdrive (NOT UEFI!!!!)
4.) Start CloneZilla with the default settings.
5.) Select your language and keyboard layout of choice then select Start Clonezilla
6.) Select the Device-Image option then select where the images are saved. The 'local_dev' option saves the image on a locally attached device (your external harddrive)
7.) Hit enter at the next prompt and then select your external harddrive as the backup. Decide what directory you want the image files to save in. Select Beginner Mode at the next prompt. Then clone entire disk (first option) and choose then your main (liteon) harddrive as the source.
8.) Chose Clone entire drive (first option) Make sure that you skip the file system checks as they are for linux filesystems and not NTFS then follow the prompts.
9.) Once thats done (about 30 min) reboot back into Windows 7.
Preparing the Windows 8 USB Drive
Make sure you have downloaded the Windows 8 ISO and Windows 7 USB tool.
1.)Install the Windows 7 USB tool and point it to the ISO and your USB Thumbdrive and click install.
2.) Reboot and hit f12 at startup and select your flash drive. Install windows 8 however you want.
3.) Install the drivers in the order Chipset, Intel GPu, Nvidia GPU, everything else, Synapse.
4.) To get switchblade UI working follow the solution here. And thats it! Optimus does work and after the fix so does switchblade. Need some benchmark suggestions and I'll run them then restore back to windows 7 and compare performance

 

They listen. I love this company LOL

 

yes they do listen, which is very refreshing.

 

I seriously think I have found my new favorite company. If they continue to be this way I'll continue to buy their products.

 

I remember seeing this laptop on Engadget awhile back, and pretty much love the design. I'm not sure I've ever seen a laptop I like more from a design standpoint.

The screen-touchpad and customizable keys seem like they have so much potential. I realize gaming is the Razer's focus, but I don't see why the side-pad couldn't be "appified" in a sense for minor tasks in certain programs (Adobe shortcuts, for one example, to help free up screen real-estate - imagine running programs completely in full screen becoming the norm, with toolbars relegated offscreen as much as possible to reduce clutter?). Of course, that would probably require Razer to branch out and support more than just the gaming community, but they've really hit a grand slam with the design of the Razer Blade, imo.

Again, I'm partial to LED lights (but not garishly, I think Alienware's [while getting a thumbs-up for being so customizable] designs are WAY over the top), and my favorite color is green, so they've sort of really got my interest with the look of this laptop. Reading the reviews, an Ivy Bridge processor (quad-core preferably) plus large RAM capacity would make this hugely attractive to me for a HD video editing system. I can't expound enough on how much I love the look of this thing.

 

Copypasta this in the What Users Want in the NExt Razer Blade thread. Their CEO lurks it

 

Is anyone else's Blade throttling the GPU when on battery, even when "Prefer Maximum Performance" is set on the nVidia drivers?

I installed GPU-Z to confirm the behavior. As soon as I pull the power on my Blade, the GPU clocks drop to low power mode. I've tried loading the factory defaults in the BIOS, installing the updated nVidia driver, and disabling all power savings under Windows. Nothing seems to help.

 

I'm pretty sure that is something that the BIOS does automatically. Happens on most if not all laptops.

 

nVidia's drivers are supposed to allow you to override that.

I e-mailed back and forth with Razer support. They're aware of the issue. Just gotta wait for a fix.

I'd like to know if anyone's Blade isn't behaving like this, though.

 

Hrm, really wanting the Blade. I need to wait until I have enough saved up for a new laptop. Thinking of Blade or Alienware 17x. I won't have enough for either until late July. any advice or news about Blade 2.0 coming out. They're supposed to announce/release it soon but I'm worried it won't be out for a while and I'd kick myself if I get the blade and they release 2.0 shortly after.

Not sure if I can make the wait though.

Any advice?

Edit: To be clear, the games I mainly play are Starcraft 2, Minecraft, occasionally WoW or other MMO's. I plan on buying Skyrim for PC as well. I know that the new line of M17x's if I ramp up to the same price as the Blade the performance CRUSHES the Blade but its still not as appealing to me because of it's weight and look. IMO the blade looks a hell of a lot more professional and portable. I could see myself with either laptop however.

 

hii this reply isnt an answer to your question! sorry. im also a sitting duck waiting it out for the blade 2.0. im mainly gaming league of legends, sc2, battlefield 3, and tera online. all these games run perfectly fine on my pc which has a 9800 gtx+ which is fairly old. highest i can go in graphics for bf3 is medium which is good enough for me even playing on lowest setting would be great. anyways if razer would release the blade 2.0 i would assume they would tell us before hand? especially that there working on the " project fiona " gaming tablet. ide say be patient, usually i dont get the first gen tech.

 

Why is that a worry?

Unless you have a specific reason/event/trip planned, wait. I bought my Blade because I wanted to take it with me on a trip and get used to using it for another trip. If I had no place to go, I would not have bought it.

I bought a Blade knowing it was first gen and that I'd be replacing it after about a year. If you can commit to a year of usage before replacement, I'd say go for it. If not, wait.

 

I really want this laptop, but the 256g SSD is too little for me. Anybody knows if there is a way to increase the size? Razer does not offer to customize the harddrive...

 

256gb should be enough.. I have league of legends, bf3, Tera online and adobe after effects on my 90gb ssd now I only have 7 gb left XD. If not, can't you buy an external hard drive to put your pictures and music on there.

 

Just had a Wow moment from the last Synapse Update. Wish their was better update logs.

But if you haven't noticed you can now Change the Track Pad image to what ever you want it to be!!!

Sonic FTW!!

 

That sort of defeats the purpose of it being a portable machine. Now if it had two drive bays or you could replace what's there without voiding your warranty, that would be an entirely different story.