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    Your GPU settings

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by wrathofdeath, Feb 15, 2012.

  1. wrathofdeath

    wrathofdeath Notebook Evangelist

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    I am wondering what settings your GPU is at... Just wondering :D And how do you enable CUDA?
     
    wrathofdeath, Feb 15, 2012
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  2. tecrp7

    tecrp7 Notebook Consultant

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    I use stock clocks for my card. When I thought I had stable OC it would all of a sudden start getting BSOD cuz of video.

    I play BF2 and BF3 regularly.

    BF2 I play with max settings and have absolutly no video lag.

    BF3 I have all settings all the way down as possible and I am able to play with little to no lag at all and it still looks good.

    As for other video settings in the nvidia control panel I am just using default settings from nvidia and I never seem to run into any video problems.

    I don't think you can turn cuda on manually. When I would use a video encoding program that has the ability to use cuda it would turn cuda on and use the video card as well.

    Also I am currently running the latest beta driver.
     
    tecrp7, Feb 16, 2012
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  3. tonkatrain

    tonkatrain Notebook Consultant

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    I am running 830/1660/1080 on my R3. It's been rock solid for months of human revo, bf3 and wow. I do recall one driver crash and reset but it was probably just the nvidia drivers.

    I am running a slight volt mod via a custom bios however.
     
    tonkatrain, Feb 21, 2012
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  4. un4tural

    un4tural Notebook Evangelist

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    do tell about your volt mod bro.

    i am running without any volt mod, it runs at 776/1552/1023. Thats basically as far as it goes without giving me messed up textures and stuff like that. I am sure memory could go further, but i don't really care for it much, mostly core/shaders...

    also you don't need CUDA unless you're doing some heavy video encoding, editing etc. and as good man tonkatrain above me said, it should start up automatically. Integrated intel card in R3 and i would think R2 is more than enough to handle 1080p video. If you want to do some pointless testing on how high a resolution video m11x R3 can play, i am quite sure you can choose to use CUDA with coreavc codes, i think i saw the options with CCCP as well. (combined community codec pack. not to be confused with you know what)

    Fun though pointless unless you plan to freeze yourself with the m11x and then want to watch videos on future Ultra HD TVs. Awesome those.
     
    un4tural, Feb 21, 2012
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  5. xer0x

    xer0x Notebook Enthusiast

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    Could you (or anyone) provide me with those stock GPU numbers for the r2? I tried changing mine recently and it didnt turne out too well, now ive got them lowered but im not sure if they're quite where they should be
     
    xer0x, Feb 22, 2012
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