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    what are you gaming on your MSI?

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by arcticreaver, Aug 26, 2013.

  1. arcticreaver

    arcticreaver Notebook Consultant

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    the main reason for getting the GT60 was for the games i wanted to play.

    right now, i'm playing Dishonored. the game is pretty good but i don't think the graphics push my unit too much.

    after finishing Dishonored, i plan on backtracking in Tomb Raider so i get all the achievements.

    anyways, what are you guys playing on your MSI machines?
     
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    Mechwarrior online in my shiny firebrand :D
     
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    War of the Roses, Forge, Planetside 2 and Warframe for now. :D I'm gonna DL Mechwarrior soon too Meaker. Also, gonna try the free Metro-Last Light I got when I purchased my laptop.
     
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    World of Tanks, and a little GW2, while waiting another week for Rome-II Total War which will probably be too much for the GE70.
     
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    Finishing Batman AC, Some Payday, trying warframe, and ocasionally some League of Legends altho this last one is tiring me now. And I got a huge backlog haha.
     
  6. arcticreaver

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    i just finished dishonored. pretty good game. kind of short but lots to do afterwards. i'm trying to not have a single kill in all of the missions. it's pretty challenging...
     
  7. be77solo

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    Currently BF3 and War Thunder are my games of choice.
     
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    Just finished : Torchlight 2, dishonored, witcher 2
    Currently playing : Crysis3, SC2, PES13
    Gonna play : Watchdogs, GTA5 when it comes to pc (2014?15?), still havent played BF3 LOL, Grim dawn (i love TQ!), diablo 3 maybe, what other games?
     
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    I mostly play BF3 since the humble bundle special :) Before that, I played a lot of Portal, good times :) The GF jams Sims 3 every now and then

    Since upgrading my desktop, my poor old laptop has taken the back seat
     
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    I've been playing some Guild Wars 2, Borderlands 2 and just started Sleeping Dogs last night. I've got lots of unplayed and undownloaded games awaiting :p
     
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    Currently i'm playing BF3 MP and DOTA2.
     
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    Guild Wars 2, Fallout 3, and Crysis 2. Just downloaded Torchlight and in the process of downloading Neverwinter.

    Mostly anticipating Elder Scrolls Online and Everquest Next.
     
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    Dark Souls. Been playing almost constantly for nearly 2 years now. Just got Payday 2 and Castlevania: LoS. Oh and good old Phantasy Star Online, which doesn't push my hardware at all.
     
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    At this moment, The Witcher 2, Inversion and F1 2012 with mods of 2013.

    But have a lot of games unplayed :p
     
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    I've recently player FIFA 13 and PES 2013 with local multiplayer with friends. Single player, I'm playing TMNT Out of the Shadows (I liked it ). I've just recently bought Bioshock Infinite but I can't get it to work (freezes just randomly). Does anyone also have this issue?
     
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    I literally just bought Bioshock infinite after reading you mention it, and it was 19dlrs on amazon. I just downloaded it and played the intro up to.... SPOILERS: Just reaching the city on the sky. I played all maxed and the vsync seems to fluctuate betwen 60 and 30 fps. I will try a bit of OC and frame limiter instead. No crashes or freezes and everything ran fine for 20 mins.

    I am running 311.83 drivers, from the MSI page.
     
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    i too have dark souls. i beat demon souls on PS3 and that was an awesome game. but dark souls, i find extremely harder than demon souls.
     
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    I initially found it harder because your healing is limited to max estus uses, but other than that similar. It could just be that after playing the KIng's Field, Shadow Tower and now the Souls series, I'm just desensitized to constant suffering.
     
  20. adriano_banano

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    I also bought it on Amazon xD

    Maybe the drivers are faulty? I've managed to play it for about 3 hours, the only fix that worked for me was disabling Killer e2200 Ethernet Controller. and playing it on Very High settings. I'll try to go back to 311.83 drivers and see what happens.

    Thanks!
     
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    I'm playing a few games myself which are:

    1) castlevania: lords of shadow Ultimate Edition
    2) DuckTales Remastered
    3) The Bureau: XCOM Declassified ( the AI is meh but I've played worse)
     
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    I'm looking forward to mighty number 9, also having great fun in MWO still.
     
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    Castlevania lords of the shadow is out for PC? never knew that. Long time since I played a Castlevania game. Symphony of the Night is the one I played, probably the best in the series too, thats what I think. Gonna check this out. Lords of the shadow seems to be good.

    I'm playing hitman absolution currently. Good game actually, enjoying it quite a bit. I'd recommend it if you havent tried it yet. Also, playing Anno 1404, I'm definitely enjoying this one. the graphics impresses me. Lovely scenery.

    Looking forward to GTA5 for pc. Hope it happens. Also, hope that it doesn't become a crappy console port, like the GTA4 was.

    Anyone know a good RPG? Offline? I loved Titan quest and diablo 1&2, 3... not so much. Grim dawn seems to be promising.
     
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    you can always try torchlight 1 and 2. Good games similar to diablo 2 due to the developers being from that developing team.
     
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    Mighty number 9 seems like a rebirth that should have come a while ago. It's awesome it is no longer tied to capcom and we can finally have a proper MegaMan game.
     
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    I just finished Batman Arkham City, and now onto Dishonored.
     
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    I've finished both TL1&2. Played around with mods on TL2. Was very fun running around killing everything with my zerk. The last difficulty tier was challenging. That was what I liked the best about TL2 other than gameplay.

    Anyone here played Heroes of Might and Magic? was just watching some clips on youtube. Looks fun, although turn based gameplay does not appeal me....
     
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    I remember having long co-op games (single PC) with HOMM 3 :D
     
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    has anyone played the new final fantasy mmo? any impression and more importantly, can the gt 60 / gt70 even handle that game?

    i remember playing ff14 on my PC when it first came out 2 years ago, i had 2 graphics cards and it was still a beast to handle.
     
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    I tried to play Battlefield 4 today, but performance is justo too bad :(

    At 1080p with high settings, I get about 15-20 fps with 331 NVIDIA beta drivers. Even at 720p with medium settings, performance is just terrible. Maybe is my internet speed, I'm trying it again later.

    Anyone has tried the beta yet?
     
  31. ryzeki

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    It should play fine. Keep in mind there aren't many options for higher performance haha, so if you can't handle it, chances are most folk won't either :) But I have only seen previews, so no idea. I want to try it!

    I haven't, is it open beta? I will do so if it is. I saw be77solo post his impressions on the other thread, here and they seem promising.

    I have high hopes.
     
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    Hi pal. It is an "open" beta for BF3 Premium Users and BF4 pre-orders. I did a clean install for 331 drivers and had a very bad performance, but I reinstalled drivers and it worked flawlessly yesterday! It works at steady 60fps at ultra settings with 1600x900 resolution (v-sync on). If you want to play at 1920x1080, you must turn off v-sync in order to get a smooth framerate. With vsync on, is not as smooth but framerate doesn't drop below 30fps. It looks very similar to BF3, but that isn't a bad thing.
     
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    Excellent! Then it seems our rigs will have no problem with BF4 when it launches :)

    ¿Qué tal te está gustando la GT60?
     
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    Tomb Raider currently :D
     
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    BF4 beta at this moment, works fine with the 780M.
     
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    Yes sir, I can confirm it runs really well on the GT60 in my sig... you're gonna want to hit turbo fan or at least 80%+ on the fan however with Ultra settings, as it pushes the CPU a lot more than BF3 or honestly any other game I've played. I'm getting CPU usage well into the 80%+ range across all cores. Temps with turbo fan keep GPU in the 70's and CPU around 80, but with fans set to auto I've seen the CPU hit 95C and the GPU 93C.

    Ultra @ 1080p with no AA is what I'm using and have framerate limited to 60fps and it stays there most of the time, with occasional dips into the upper 40's under massive chaos or when that skyscraper falls and kicks up an ungodly amount of debris and dust.

    Really having fun with the beta, but I loved BF3 as well. Definitely worth checking out!

    EDIT: was reading back over my thread and did forget to mention that I have the CPU overclocked to 3600 using the Intel Tuning app. Haven't tried without, but might slightly affect my performance or temps, but has been totally stable since I set it months ago.
     
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    Thanks for the input, I will try without the OC to the CPU and see how it goes. Worst case, I will get the intel XTU to also raise my mutliplier while gaming :) Considering you are running at 80% across all cores, there is a high chance that those extra mhz will benefit framerate.