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    old game playing slowly?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by rambling may, Sep 25, 2010.

  1. rambling may

    rambling may Newbie

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    hey guys, just got my r2 a few days ago and i totally love it - everything is running perfectly so far - with one exception. One older game that I like to play sometimes (phantasy star online) lags terribly, and im really not sure why this would be...other newer games run totally fine.
    anything I should do/try?

    thanks!
     
    rambling may, Sep 25, 2010
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  2. corwinicre

    corwinicre Notebook Deity

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    Probably a dumb question, but did you add the game to the whitelist?

    Also, which drivers are you using?
     
    corwinicre, Sep 25, 2010
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    rambling may Newbie

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    yeah its on the white list XD and the drivers are the standard installed drivers.
     
    rambling may, Sep 25, 2010
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    Jamezuh Notebook Enthusiast

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    Check the pc requirements for the game, if it was out long before dual cores were big, then it may only run fully on one core. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but m11x users will probably suffer this problem a lot with older games due to the speeds of our singular cores.
     
    Jamezuh, Sep 25, 2010
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  5. cappielloa

    cappielloa Notebook Consultant

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    Try monitoring your cpu usage to see if one core is bottlenecking it.

    Also, probably not important, but have you run the game without issue on another Windows 7 PC?
     
    cappielloa, Sep 25, 2010
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