Alan Wake recommended specs???

StevieP

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I've bought the Alan Wake collection in the Steam sales but when I tried to run it on my laptop (Dell XPS L702x), it ran like the proverbial bag of ****!!

Installed it on my desktop and it is as smooth as silk!!

Now this wouldn't normally be surprising but my laptop is a Core i7 2630 with an nVidia GT 555M which I didn't think was a bad specc'ed machine in comparison to my desktop's i5 2500K (at stock) and an nVidia GTX460 GPU!

The thing was, the fan on my laptop was not blasting away like it does when I play Diablo 3 which made me wonder whether it was using the onboard graphics for some reason!?!? :confused:

It literally grinds to around 1-2 FPS - is there some way I can check to see if it's using my GT555 or does this sound about right?? :eek:

Thanks guys....
 
What resolution are you running at?

GT 555M is pretty medicore by desktop standards, I'd take a GTX460 over it any day of the week:
144 cores 590MHz (GF106), 192Bit DDR3

1GB GTX460 by comparison has faster memory bus, more cores, higher clockspeed etc.

Also the i7 2630 has a very low clockspeed of 2ghz, even on max turbo it is below 3ghz compared to your stock 2500k speed of 3.3ghz turboing to 3.7ghz. Less cache as well.
 
I'm not convinced as to how optimised this game is, I have hit a bug a few times where my FPS drop down to 1 or 2 FPS and the only way to fix it is to restart the computer. This is on an i5 2500k @ 4.6GHz and a GTX560Ti 2GB @ 900MHz. :/

Tried updating drivers?
 
HangTime said:
What resolution are you running at?

GT 555M is pretty medicore by desktop standards, I'd take a GTX460 over it any day of the week:
144 cores 590MHz (GF106), 192Bit DDR3

1GB GTX460 by comparison has faster memory bus, more cores, higher clockspeed etc.

Also the i7 2630 has a very low clockspeed of 2ghz, even on max turbo it is below 3ghz compared to your stock 2500k speed of 3.3ghz turboing to 3.7ghz. Less cache as well.
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I know it's not what you would call a blockbuster gaming laptop but it should surely be better than a crappy slideshow!! Everything else runs just fine on decent detail levels!

PianoBasher said:
I'm not convinced as to how optimised this game is, I have hit a bug a few times where my FPS drop down to 1 or 2 FPS and the only way to fix it is to restart the computer. This is on an i5 2500k @ 4.6GHz and a GTX560Ti 2GB @ 900MHz. :/

Tried updating drivers?
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Good call my man!!! :)

Rebooted the laptop and reloaded the game - runs fine now!?!?!? :confused:

I'll update the drivers anyway and try upping the resolution until I get a nice balance between performance and detail!

Thanks for the replies guys - cracking game so far!!! :D
 
StevieP said:
Good call my man!!! :)

Rebooted the laptop and reloaded the game - runs fine now!?!?!? :confused:

I'll update the drivers anyway and try upping the resolution until I get a nice balance between performance and detail!

Thanks for the replies guys - cracking game so far!!! :D
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Glad to be of some help, and yes, it's a cracking game, although I think they could have used a bit more variety enemy wise and maybe played a bit more on the psychological factor. :)
 
StevieP said:
Good call my man!!! :)

Rebooted the laptop and reloaded the game - runs fine now!?!?!? :confused:

I'll update the drivers anyway and try upping the resolution until I get a nice balance between performance and detail!

Thanks for the replies guys - cracking game so far!!! :D
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Is it an Optimus laptop ? If so might have just not properly detected the game before the reboot and just used the intel gfx the first time.

I have tried a few games with really bad fps on my Optimus laptop and using the onboard was to blame :)
 
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