Alienware M17x...

**MavericK96** · May 8 2010, 00:42

Originally Posted by Sintacks

Just trying out these settings now. First gotta update the BIOS in my M17x. I also installed Arma 2 on my desktop. It chews it up at 40FPS at everything set to very high and 1920x1080.

What's fill rate? Is that in the Arma2.cfg?

Fill rate, meaning 3D Resolution. It's right below the primary resolution setting.

Also, your desktop specs are a lot better than that laptop.

Originally Posted by Delta 51

ArmA2 doesn't support SLI or anything above dualcore, that will be all

Totally and completely wrong. ArmA2 definitely supports SLI and it utilizes all 4 of my cores.

**Sintacks** · May 8 2010, 02:33

Yeh. I was gonna say!

Thanks for the info, Maverick. It's been a long week. I will try some adjustments when I fire Arma 2 up tomorrow when I'm fresh and alert. Ciao

**Sintacks** · May 9 2010, 01:03

I actually got a pretty good FPS boost by doing the MSCONFIG thing and disabling all services except for Steam (so I could run the game) and rebooting. Now I got an almost playable 25-30FPS on everything very high at 1920x1080. I bet I can get more if I tune it down a little.

**MavericK96** · May 9 2010, 10:24

Be careful which services you disable...

**Sintacks** · May 9 2010, 14:30

No worries there, I have spent 11 years as a Windows/Intel System Admin

**Deadfast** · May 9 2010, 15:09

You don't need Steam to run the game either AFAIK.

**Sintacks** · May 9 2010, 22:28

Well I got an error message about the Steam service being disabled when I invoked Arma2 so I'm pretty sure you do.

**domokun** · May 10 2010, 10:14

Sintacks: try Gamebooster. It's free, lightweight and efficient and les time-consuming that disbaling the services manually.

**Sintacks** · May 10 2010, 10:32

Thanks domokun. Will look into that.

**sidhellfire** · May 10 2010, 10:32

Sintacks, is your game patched to 1.05? I though that game was set free from steam after that patch.

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