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    Battlefield 3

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by carnnage, Oct 25, 2011.

  1. carnnage

    carnnage Notebook Enthusiast

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    Anyone playing this on their mx11 r2? I continue to have the loading screen freeze up on me. I am running the i7. If you are running it what setting are you running it on?
     
    carnnage, Oct 25, 2011
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    Practically all low to medium settings on my R1 and most of the visual effects are toned down but it runs fine I get a decent amount of FPS as well as no noticeable lag.
     
    GallardosEggrollshop, Oct 25, 2011
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  3. Intangble

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    Definitely was a big Beta post on this (dig a few pagesw down) - ran 'acceptably' for sure, no crashes, but cant
     
    Intangble, Oct 25, 2011
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    I have been playing with BF3 since Alpha. I can confidently say that the release version runs very well on my R2 I5. I do have throttlestop going, FSB at 166, and MSI Afterburner overclocking at 549 / 1305 / 948. Just finished playing a large 64 player map and was getting frame rates in the 40-50s. I did play a little single player last night and had two crashes due to msi overclock. The same settings dont cause crash on mult player.

    So the games settings are the native 1366x768 with all settings low except textures which is medium. Even with those settings the game is beautiful (in my opinion). I have not had the time to see what settings I could change and get acceptable frame rates but for anyone out there that is a fan of the series or FPS in general this is a must play! And yes single-player sucks, (again my opinon) but I did not buy it for single player.

    I also recommend a good seat of headphones or if you have it 5.1 The sound is another aspect to the game that is amazing.

    Rigek
     
    Rigek, Oct 25, 2011
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  5. cooldd

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    I have tried it at High 1366x768 and it runs fairly smoothly on single player. Have to try to see how's the fps on Low though :)
     
    cooldd, Oct 25, 2011
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    well, what do you have? r1 r2 or r3?
     
    deadboy90, Oct 25, 2011
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    Read somewhere that lowering resolution eats more CPU (???), but I'm with resolution on 1024x768, I can run on High (Shadows on low) with playable frames.
     
    ZeroCell, Oct 25, 2011
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  8. thegh0sts

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    i am running it on my R2 and it doesn't seem to be playing all that smooth for me.
     
    thegh0sts, Oct 26, 2011
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  9. carnnage

    carnnage Notebook Enthusiast

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    I continue to get "Battlefield 3 has stopped working"

    There seems to be a bunch of people having that issue. I did a fresh install with only the origin software and bf3 installed. I wonder the people that it is working for are they running it from a dvd installation? I know I have to load origin then load the battlelog then it loads the bf3 program. I have my mx11 oc to 160mhz. I have tried running it with oc disabled and same results. Before formating I could run any game at 160mhz with no issues.

    Any ideas?
     
    carnnage, Oct 26, 2011
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    carnnage Notebook Enthusiast

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    Update!! I disabled speedstep in the bios and now it loads and seems to run great and even on high settings. Whats up with that?
     
    carnnage, Oct 26, 2011
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    thegh0sts Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    revision please?

    EDIT: it didn't work!
     
    thegh0sts, Oct 26, 2011
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  12. carnnage

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    R2, 4 gigs ram running at 160mhz. I did not overclock the vid card at all.
     
    carnnage, Oct 26, 2011
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    I also have MSI Afterburner at 530/1274/891 and Throttlestop running. Also, if you haven't downloaded the new BF3 WHQL drivers, I'd recommend giving those a shot.
     
    ZeroCell, Oct 26, 2011
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    BatBoy, Oct 26, 2011
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