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so yeah here it is for people curious about how it runs on asus g73sw-bst6 thanks for takin the time i72630qm 8gb of ram nvidia geforce 460gtx 750gb 7200rpm hd

So, CoD MW3 got just released a couple of days ago, did some of you guys get it as well or am I the only one here who likes this game? I haven't played it that much yet, but from what I've seen so far I really like it, fantastic game! Course it's very similar to MW2 and one can say that it gets repetitive, I however really enjoy such fast paced games (the multiplayer mode) and from what I've seen the campaign is worth the couple of hours. There's also a nice co-op mode, which lets you play some missions or survival mode, which I think is a lot of fun. That's even the part of the game I played most so far. Anyway, in you plan to get the game (or already have it), you should make sure to set it up properly, especially the video settings. Here some tips: In the video settings, choose "Windowed (No Border)" for Display Mode, this will allow you to quickly swap between windows with alt+tab without the usual issues. Then probably the most important setting: Go to "Advanced video settings" and change "Image Quality" to "Native" This is the only way to make the game run at your native resolution, otherwise it gets upscaled from 720p. The difference is obviously huge. For the rest of the settings it depends on the hardware, but if you have a high-end mobile GPU you can easily max it out. If you want even more tweaks go to the config file of the game, it allows you to do some more tweaking. E.g. you can up the anisotropic filtering to 16x or raise to AA to 8x, which otherwise isn't possible. [FONT=arial]seta r_texFilterAnisoMax "16"[/FONT][FONT=arial]seta r_texFilterAnisoMin "16"[/FONT] [FONT=arial]seta r_aaSamples "8"[/FONT] [FONT=arial]seta r_ssao "2_High"[/FONT] Or if you want to have more (or less) corpses laying around, just modify these entries (can cause quite some GPU load): [FONT=arial]seta ragdoll_max_simulating "32" [/FONT][FONT=arial]seta ai_corpseCount "32"[/FONT] Also these can come in handy, it enables the flash warning, and the grenade warning when you're looking trough a scope: [SIZE=2][FONT=arial]cg_hudGrenadeIconInScope "1" [/FONT][/SIZE][FONT=arial]cg_hudGrenadeIconEnabledFlash "1"[/FONT] Edit: Completely forgot... if you have a dual GPU system, make sure to change the "MultiGPU" setting in the config file to "1". This will apparently also remove the fps cap. Though I'm not even sure whether there's already a CF profile for MW3... no idea about Nvidia either. I'll let you know in case I find some more handy tweaks. Edit 2: It might be useful to make the config file "read-only", to prevent the game from automatically changing back some settings, even though I didn't have any issues so far.

Well Skyrim has been released! I got it last night and so far it seems to be a nice sequel to Oblivion which I played years ago. Graphics haven't changed too much and the atmosphere is exactly how I remember it. With dual 6990s OC'd to 820/1100 and mostly ultra settings I find my system struggling to go above 40 fps. I guess I'll need to keep tweaking the settings until I find the sweet spot--high view distance is a killer on framerate. Use this thread to discuss anything about the game from videos, pics, tweaking tips etc.

So I wiped out the first village you escape to and stole all their gold. I guess I'm wanted now because when I went north to the adjacent town, some guard caught up with me and cut me down lol.

Its not difficult if you use the right tools. Follow my mini guide here and you'll be able to mod images in almost any exe including the OSD. Good job with the mod @robby_hd +1

My Settings recommendation for the m14x are as follows... Set global settings to ultra @ 1366x768 Set Blur to low Set Shadows to high Disable AA/AF Game looks AMAZING FPS > 50 at all times. In first long dungeon with waterfalls and spells over 100fps at times. Good Luck, StevenX

As far as benches, here is what I have. A lot of them are going to need to be rerun as they can still be pushed further. Most we rerun with out any retention mods, so I'll be rerunning them now that the mods are done. If I ever manage to find time. I think my favorite benchmark of all of them is the PCMark Vantage benchmark as it is a system assesment of the entire notebook, and simulates a lot of real work senarios. I also need to run 3DMark11 when I get some time. Moving in to a new apartment in a month, and got a two bedroom, so I can have a computer room DR650SE's Alienware M17x R2 Benchmarks. GPU Benchmarks 5870M Dual GPU 3DMark Vantage: P19838 Marks 3DMark06: 23720 Marks 3DMark05: 31672 Marks 3DMark03: 80002 Marks 3DMark2001 SE: 50975 Marks Unigine Heaven DX9: 1459.12 Marks Unigine Heaven DX11: 927 Marks AquaMark: 168065 Marks ---- 5870M Single GPU 3DMark Vantage: P11163 Marks 3DMark06: 18040 Marks 3DMark05: 27381 Marks 3DMark03: 50893 Marks 3DMark2001 SE: 52426 Marks Unigine Heaven DX9: 1295.37 Marks Unigine Heaven DX11: 466.95 Marks AquaMark: 191609 Marks ---- CPU Benchmarks i7 940XM: CPU-Z: 4261.03MHz Pifast: 21.72sec SuperPi 1M: 10.311sec SuperPi 32M: 9Min 47.669sec wPrime1024: 4Min 59.305sec wPrime32: 6.958sec i7 920XM CPU-Z: 4248.15MHz Pifast: 21.33sec SuperPi 1M: 10.223sec SuperPi 32M: 9Min 40.636sec wPrime1024: 3Min 44.858sec wPrime32: 6.599sec i7 Q720M CPU-Z: 3406.38MHz Pifast: 26.16sec SuperPi 1M: 12.449sec SuperPi 32M: 11Min 17.821sec wPrime1024: 6Min 39.918sec wPrime32: 12.870sec i5 540M CPU-Z: 4102.03MHz Pifast: 23.03sec SuperPi 1M: 11.404sec SuperPi 32M: 10Min 36.138sec wPrime1024: 7Min 3.307sec wPrime32: 13.221sec i5 520M CPU-Z: 3850.45MHz Pifast: 24.98sec SuperPi 1M: 12.448sec SuperPi 32M: 11Min 26.697sec wPrime1024: 8Min 18.406sec wPrime32: 15.691sec --- Referance Clock Benchmark for M17x R2 178.35MHz on FSB of i5 540M Full System Benches PCMark04: 11364 Marks PCMark05: 18577 Marks PC Mark Vantage: 18181 Marks