Low Fps During Gaming

Dear Alienware M15x users,



I have a 9 month old M15x, initially it worked brilliantly on games such as battlefield bad company 2, call of duty modern warfare 2. However lately I tried playing call of duty black ops and its become unplayable with fps lower than 20.

I tried fiddling with the graphics setting and still its impossible to play multiplayer or campaign smoothly even at the lowest settings. I've seen people being able to play at 1920x1080 with 50 fps average. My question is could there be something wrong with my GPU or laptop as a whole?

My specs are;

i7-820QM

8GB 1333MHz RAM

Nvidia GTX260M 1GB VRAM (driver version 266.58)

screen resolution 1920x1080.

Reply 1 : Low Fps During Gaming

Black ops had problem with system resources, but they released a patch that fixes it. have u tried that? my vaio(most of brands use same hardware so, not only alienware users) ran poorly on unpatched black ops, but after it ran very well.

Try running different games, like Civilization V, it requires a lot of system resources, and if it runs well, then it's not ur hardware.

Also try updating drivers

system requirements are obviously not the issue, so

GOOD LUCK!

Reply 2 : Low Fps During Gaming

ok thanks i will try that

Reply 3 : Low Fps During Gaming

Ok, first of all make sure you didn't enable stealth mode accidentaly (or whether it didn't activate itself as it does from time to time)



Then go to the config files, both multi player and single player and search for the following entries:



seta r_multiGpu "0"

seta r_multithreaded_device "1"



They must be set like this.... but on a lot of systems they are the exact opposite which is wrong for your machine. If you have multiGPU "1" change it to "0" and when you have the multithreaded setting on "0" set it to "1".



This tweak massively improved the performance for me.