M17x - Battlefield 3 Discussion Thread

[ft2430099]

I'm actually getting 60FPS on Ultra setting without any AA enabled. Lowest I've ever seen on SP was 40. I tried multiplayer ONCE and i ended up getting the same FPS as SP. 50-60FPS and 40ish on heavy fights. On 11.9 with CAP4. Very happy with the performance!

have you clean installed the driver? or is there any settings you have done for ATI control panel? I am so sad about my fps with same spec of yours. I used ccleaner and Driver Sweeper to clean older driver and installed new one

[widezu69]

how did you pull off the 7.9 on RAM ? it's still 7.8 even with cas7 20,17GB/s
i got 7.8 across the board except 7.9 for SSD

I get 7.8 using Cas7 as well. I'm using XMP profile 2 which is Cas9 but running at 1600Mhz. That gives a higher WEI score.

[hidz7]

I'm actually getting 60FPS on Ultra setting without any AA enabled. Lowest I've ever seen on SP was 40. I tried multiplayer ONCE and i ended up getting the same FPS as SP. 50-60FPS and 40ish on heavy fights. On 11.9 with CAP4. Very happy with the performance!

Cool!
I use all Ultra as well but sometimes it will fall below 40FPS if too many explosions and people in MP, I guess I will try to turn all AA off.

[N4TUR3]

i got about 35-40 frames while playing indoors. I noticed that turning of msaa increases your fps ALOT i think that has the most significance. The rest is on maximum including AA 16x

while outdoors i usually set about 2 of the settings to high, rest will be ultra and turn off msaa and set aa to 2 or 4.

35-45 fps guaranteed!

[ValkerieFire]

Playing now with the 580m OC'd to 800/1800 @ .92v getting 50-60 fps with all ultra except no AA Defered, SBAO, post AAx4. Max temp was 73C with the back elevated. I was able to go completely ultra but I couldn't really see a difference. AAx16 drops my FPS to 25-35.

[darkloki]

Alright not sure what's wrong with my system but I reverted back to the latest 11.9 and I'm happiest with these because it removes flickering. However I've had to reduce resolution to 1600x ???? to get the FPS I want with out freezeups. I'm okay with this while turning on AA but I was wondering what's the correct resolutions to utilize with my system scaling down from 1920 1200? Thanks.

[Doctor Magneto]

Alright not sure what's wrong with my system but I reverted back to the latest 11.9 and I'm happiest with these because it removes flickering. However I've had to reduce resolution to 1600x ???? to get the FPS I want with out freezeups. I'm okay with this while turning on AA but I was wondering what's the correct resolutions to utilize with my system scaling down from 1920 1200? Thanks.

did you revert going through the usual cleaning/sweeping/installation? You should for sure be able to play smooth with custom settings at native resolution.

[darkloki]

did you revert going through the usual cleaning/sweeping/installation? You should for sure be able to play smooth with custom settings at native resolution.

I can but towards the end of a round it gets videolaggy, I mean it's annoying because the motion of loading my SV98 starts to lag out bugging the crap out of me. But I suppose I can try to install video drivers again, do you have any recommendations of a free driver cleaner? I'm also thinking that I need 60+ FPS because I'm sniping VERY often and when you're looking down your scope you notice things, or at least I do. Half of all of my Sniper kills are Headshots, I'd like to increase that percentage

[Doctor Magneto]

I can but towards the end of a round it gets videolaggy, I mean it's annoying because the motion of loading my SV98 starts to lag out bugging the crap out of me. But I suppose I can try to install video drivers again, do you have any recommendations of a free driver cleaner? I'm also thinking that I need 60+ FPS because I'm sniping VERY often and when you're looking down your scope you notice things, or at least I do. Half of all of my Sniper kills are Headshots, I'd like to increase that percentage

I use DriverSweeper for cleaning the driver, and CCleaner for searching and removing dead AMD-related registry links, I run ccleaner couple of times untill it says everything is clear. Then I install the driver. Both programs are free

[maxheap]

one good question, I hope I will be getting my m17x-r3 soon, does alienware release drivers often or we are stuck with the OEM provided year old drivers as usual with the other companies? (never had alienware before)