Alienware M11x Game Playability List #, A, B, C D, E, F, G

Alienware M11x Game Playability List
All results are based off the M11x R2 (core i7 version) at stock speeds.
Game Genre Playable? Tested (Visual) Settings Notes
#, A, B, C Number of Games: 23
Alice: Madness Returns YES
Aliens vs Predator
FPS YES
Alien Swarm UNTESTED
Assassin's Creed: Director's
Cut
YES
Assassin's Creed 2 UNTESTED
Audiosurf
Back to the Future: Episode
1
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Music UNTESTED
Adventure YES
YES
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 FPS YES
Bioshock
FPS UNTESTED
Bioshock 2
Blood Stone 007
3 rd person
Adventure
Top-down
Shooter
3rd person
Adventure
3rd person
Adventure
FPS YES
both DX9 and DX10 versions run smoothly.
Brink FPS
HAS
ISSUES
Bulletstorm
HAS
ISSUES
Bully: Scholarship Edition Open World UNTESTED
Burnout Paradise Driving YES Playable on the i5 version of the R2 on high settings.
Call of Duty 2 FPS YES
Call of Duty 4 Modern
Warfare
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
2
3rd person
Adventure
FPS Initially playable but last few levels start to see an FPS drop
FPS YES
FPS YES
Call of Duty: Black Ops FPS UNTESTED
Chronicles of Riddick:
Assault on Dark Athena, The
3rd person
Shooter
HAS
ISSUES
FPS YES
Civilisation V Strategy YES
Crysis 2
FPS YES
D, E, F, G Number of Games: 16
3 rd person
Shooter
Dark Sector YES
Shadows: 2/3
Post FX: Off
Resolution: 1280x720
V-sync: off
Graphic Quality: 2/4
multi-sampling: 1/3
Brightness: 5/10
Level of Detail: 2/4
Resolution: 1280x720
Graphics Quality: High
Actor Detail: High
Texture: High
Window Mode: off
Vertical Sync: Off
Shadow Maps: On
High Detail Post Processing: On
High Detail Shaders: On
Real Time Reflection: On
Distortion: On
Forced Global Lighting: Off
DirectX 10 Detail Lighting: Off
3D Stereo Vision: Off
In-Game Brightness: 50
Window Mode: Off
Resolution: 1024x576
Graphics Quality: Custom
Anti-aliasing: Off
Dynamic Lighting: Low
Dynamic Shadows: Medium
SSAO: Off
Motion Blur: Off
Depth of Field: On
Reflections: On
Cubemap: Off
Draw Distance: Low
Effects Detail: Medium
Resolution: 1024x576
Fullscreen: Yes
V-Sync: No
System Spec: High
fps is capped to 31fps but can be unlocked by hacking an
*.ini file. The game does stutter in some areas.
Runs better without PhysX enabled.
Some older drivers do not like the game as it makes the
game say that the 335M is not a support GPU. The 275.33
drivers seem to work well with the game.
does drop to

Alienware M11x Game Playability List
All results are based off the M11x R2 (core i7 version) at stock speeds.
Game Genre Playable? Tested (Visual) Settings Notes
Dead Space
3
UNTESTED
rd person
Shooter/Horror
Dead Space 2 YES Game stays above 40fps
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
(Preview Build)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
RPG YES Stutters and micro-freezes some times....this is a BETA!
RPG UNTESTED Awaiting release in August 2011
Devil May Cry 4 YES Based on PC demo running benchmarks. Rank A
Doom 3 FPS YES
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil FPS YES
Duke Nukem Forever
F.E.A.R. 3 FPS YES
Frontlines: Fuel of War
Gears of War YES
Ghostbusters: The Video 3
Game
FPS UNTESTED
FPS UNTESTED
Grand Theft Auto IV Open World UNTESTED
rd person HAS
Shooter ISSUES
Ghost Recon: Advanced
Warfighter
Ghost Recon: Advanced
Warfighter 2
FPS YES fps does seem to drop during the Queen bitch boss battle.
FPS YES This game also allows you to fake certain resolutions. :)
H, I, J, K Number of Games: 3
Homefront
FPS YES
Hunted: The Demon's Forge Action NO
Hydrophobia: Prophecy
3 rd person
Shooter/Horror
3 rd Person
Action
L, M, N, O Number of Games: 10
Lara Croft and the Guardian
of Light
YES
Left 4 Dead FPS YES
Left 4 Dead 2 FPS YES
Mass Effect RPG YES
Just can't seem to get the right settings for a stable FPS.
Mass Effect 2 RPG YES Pre-rendered video stutters but game still playable.
Max Payne
Max Payne 2: The Fall of
Max Payne
3 rd person
Shooter
3 rd Person
Adventure
3 rd Person
Action
Adventure
Top-down
Shooter
3 rd Person
Shooter
3 rd Person
Shooter
3 rd Person
UNTESTED
YES
Mini Ninjas Action YES
Adventure
Mirror's Edge FPS/Adventure YES
3 rd Person
Monday Night Combat Shooter YES
P, Q, R, S Number of Games: 19
Polynomial, The Music UNTESTED
Portal FPS YES
Portal 2 FPS YES
Quantum of Solace 007 FPS
HAS
ISSUES
HAS
ISSUES
Rainbow Six: Vegas FPS YES
resolution: 1280x720, 60Hz
vsync: off
full screen: on
graphic quality: high
brightness: 50
notifications: on
Resolution: 1280x720
Gamma: 50
Windowed: Off
V-Sync: Disabled
AA: off
Texture quality: medium
Ambient occlusion: off
Shadow quality: standard
Translucent Quality: standard
Needs manual fix of screen resolution to a widescreen ratio.
Needs manual fix of screen resolution to a widescreen ratio.
The game is very playable at 720p, staying above 30fps.
Amazed this game needs a 2.4ghz C2D at all! - FURTHER
NOTE: Did see the game drop below 30fps but not for long.
Just kept getting poor framerates even though the game was
whitelisted in the Nvidia control panel. Possibly a something
to do with the Nvidia driver or the game itself.
Another physics heavy game. FPS suffers because of it on
the M11x.
Game would not start with older drivers. Textures are low-res
even though set to Ultra-high. Tested with v1.02.
Game stretches video to 16:9 from 4:3 and out of proportion.
Play in window mode. Dialogue will not be played due file
format incompatibility with Win 7 and needs to be
reconverted for Win 7 suitable format.
Game stretches video to 16:9 from 4:3 and out of proportion.
Play in window mode.
Disable PhysX...for the love of....Disable PhysX!
FPS seems to be capped and drops to 20fps to where it
becomes unplayable. Not patched at time of testing.
Title cards at the start of the SP campaign is in 4:3 with
actual game rendering behind it.
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Alienware M11x Game Playability List
All results are based off the M11x R2 (core i7 version) at stock speeds.
Game Genre Playable? Tested (Visual) Settings Notes
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 FPS YES Hardware skinning: On
This game also allows you to fake certain resolutions. :)
Red Alert 3 Strategy UNTESTED
Red Faction: Armageddon Action NO
Resident Evil 5 YES Very stable: M11x gets a B rating in internal benchmarks
Saints Row 2 Open World
HAS
ISSUES
drops below 20fps.
Section 8: Prejudice FPS
HAS
ISSUES
fps drops when jumping out of aircraft.
Serious Sam HD: The First
Encounter
FPS UNTESTED
Sniper: Ghost Warrior FPS NO
Splinter Cell YES
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory YES
Splinter Cell: Double Agent UNTESTED
Splinter Cell: Conviction
3 rd Person
Adventure
3 rd Person
Action
Adventure /
Horror
Street Fighter IV Beat 'em Up YES
Super Meat Boy Arcade YES Works great with the Intel GPU.
T, U, V, W Number of Games: 6
Team Fortress 2 FPS UNTESTED
Timeshift
FPS UNTESTED
Tomb Raider: Underworld
3
UNTESTED
Torchlight Dungeon Crawl UNTESTED
rd Person
Adventure
Wheelman
Witcher Enhanced Edition,
The
3 rd Person
Stealth Action
3 rd Person
Stealth Action
3 rd Person
Stealth Action
3 rd Person
Stealth Action
HAS
ISSUES
Open World YES Resolution: 1280x720
RPG NO
Resolution: 1280x720
Screen aspect ratio: 16x9
AA: None
V-sync: Off
Shadow Quality: High
Motion Blur: On
Blur quality: High
Brightness: 5
Resolution: 1024x576
Gamma: 50
Brightness: 50
Contrast: 50
AR: 16:9
Display mode: Fullscreen
V-Sync: Disabled
AA: off
Filter mode: trilinear
Ambient occlusion: off
Shadow detail: off
Texture detail: low
Motion blur: disabled
Scene detail: low
Post processing detail: low
Resolution: 1280x720
Display Mode: Full-screen
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
V-Sync: Off
Framerate: unlocked
AA: off
Motion Blur: on
Shadow detail: high
Texture detail: high
Overall Quality: high
The game is very physics heavy and anything physics related
and the framerate just drops to where it becomes unplayable
very early on. The M11x just can't handle the physics in the
game.
The Chrome engine seems to be very unoptimised causing it
to perform badly on the M11x: even with the game set to the
lowest settings.
Game only accepts 4:3 resolutions but can be modded to
work in 16:9. Search for “Resolution” on SplinterCellUser.ini
720p only supported widescreen res for the m11x.
Framerates are good. This is the steam version running
without the Starforce DRM.
Game has no other graphical settings – just resolution
options
The game just seems to be running terribly even when the
settings are low.
X, Y, Z Number of Games: 1
You Don't Know Jack Casual/Family YES Mainly runs on the integrated GPU.
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