Alienware M17x - Skyrim discussion thread

[bigtonyman]

ill get the game here soon and see how well my poor 460m will run it. Its been the little guy on the block for a while now

[alienwolf]

Down loading on steam now, received it as a present from my son.. Can't wait to try it.

[maxheap]

Down loading on steam now, received it as a present from my son.. Can't wait to try it.

best son ever people does anybody experiencing something like this, after half an hour or something of gameplay skyrim quits all of a sudden... no idea why is it happening 40-60 fps and 65C gpu temp, everything looks ok, is it a patching problem?

just killed my first dragon, lvl 11

[Megatony73]

best son ever people does anybody experiencing something like this, after half an hour or something of gameplay skyrim quits all of a sudden... no idea why is it happening 40-60 fps and 65C gpu temp, everything looks ok, is it a patching problem?

just killed my first dragon, lvl 11

That used to happen all the time in oblivion...maybe the Bethesda bugs strike again?? But, I played for 6 hours a few times and it didnt happen to me...hmmm.

[dBaseD]

That used to happen all the time in oblivion...maybe the Bethesda bugs strike again?? But, I played for 6 hours a few times and it didnt happen to me...hmmm.

I found a cavern that crashes it to desktop every time i walk in a certain hallway. Definitely some bugs still to be worked out. Hopefully they can actually get them all patched.

[SlickDude80]

17 hrs into the game. I'm just wandering around doing side quests and a little of the main quest lol

[GeoCake]

I'm using 11.10 latest one I think. What are your exact exact settings and tweaks in the ini file?
Also you must have some slowdown in towns like Whiterun, especially looking down at it from the top at Dragonsreach.
Max clocks I can go are the ones in my sig as temps become an issue.

[SlickDude80]

I'm using 11.10 latest one I think. What are your exact exact settings and tweaks in the ini file?
Also you must have some slowdown in towns like Whiterun, especially looking down at it from the top at Dragonsreach.
Max clocks I can go are the ones in my sig as temps become an issue.

No slowdowns at all, except for situation described bellow. Its been 17 hrs and i've trekked across a nice chunk of the map, gone into multiple caves, towns, killed my first dragon etc...so if its going to slowdown, i would have experienced by now. No slowdowns anywhere

The one sore point i did have was that the companion seems to cause lag in certain places when i installed a few mods to make the game look better for PC. I experiemented with clocks, went up to 830/1250. Game did not lag in those areas with my companion anymore. I bumped my clocks down to 780/1050 (no need for more) and visually, to my eyes, no difference from 830/1250 so i left it there.

I'm running the Ultra preset, 4xaa, 16af...no tweaks to ini...cats 11.10 wsql

[SlickDude80]

GeoCake...there is a patch here you can try...it helps with slowdowns on ATI cards:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=48

[Armin_Tanzarian]

I'm having a couple bugs, but nothing too bad.

Sometimes I crash right to desktop.

More often than not I get soundcard skipping and complete system failure. I don't think this is Skyrim though...I think it is the m17x-r2, as I have seen this crash before.

The only really annoying bug so far is that I found a dragon, and each time I fight him - typically when he is almost dead - the whole system crashes with that sound bug.