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    Settings for NFS Shift 2

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by tlminh, Jul 3, 2011.

  1. tlminh

    tlminh Notebook Enthusiast

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    R1 overclocked to 1.7 thorugh BIOS, stock GPU settings

    Only getting 20 FPS

    Any hints?

    Everything is on medium
     
    tlminh, Jul 3, 2011
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    leo6love Notebook Consultant

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    no chance for R1 with this game 'cos it's a cpu intensive game.
     
    leo6love, Jul 4, 2011
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    DivineAura Notebook Evangelist

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    try pinmodding ur CPU ? :x
     
    DivineAura, Jul 4, 2011
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    tlminh Notebook Enthusiast

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    How can you tell if one game is CPU intensive vs GPU intensive?

    How can i tell if a certain game i purchase will have the same problems?

    Please educate me, I'm new to this field of science. thanks!
     
    tlminh, Jul 4, 2011
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    Most of the time its simple to tell if a game will lean on the CPU more or the GPU more, but just because it fits the mold does not mean that it will actually fall into the correct category, so you cannot use that as a determining factor to decide if your laptop will play a game.

    However to answer your question, most games that render a lot without being graphically "Beautiful" are CPU intensive. This includes most Real time Strategy games as well as crafting games such as Minecraft. These types of games use the CPU to render the number of items on the screen (Basically the CPU generates them, the gpu displays them) because of this having a lot of units on screen (Like in Starcraft) will cause it to bog down because the lack of CPU muscle.

    Most of the NSF series (If not all) are console ports. This basically means they were designed for Xbox and PS3, however the company believed they could make extra money if they started selling them for PC. So they basically rip the game to a disc and send it out. The problem with this exists in the fact that most console games are based heavily on the CPU since most consoles are CPU based. This causes the games to utilize more CPU power than GPU power. In the case of the M11x, the GPU is quite a beast for the size of the laptop, however the processor is on the lower end (Though not for this size range).

    Games like Crysis, which has more design in it for computers, tend to lean more on the GPU and as such the M11x can run them better than the far-from-as-pretty console ports.

    That is the basic idea of it, if there is anything I missed allow the many other people smarter than I on this forum to continue teaching you, though if you have any questions please feel free to ask.
     
    Xtrophy, Jul 4, 2011
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