(04-23-2012, 05:29 AM)Chuckles83 Wrote: I have an M14X with the i7 chipset and the GeForce GT555m. I can't manage to tweak the settings enough to play anything. The two games I've tried are Stuntman and Gran Turismo 3. Any help?? I've heard that the i7 CPU isn't enough to facilitate the needs of the emulation but I refuse to believe that. Once again any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Actually, the i7 2630QM CPU is not bad for PCSX2, at least using the MTVU hack and Throttlestop. My laptop is an Asus G53SW-SZ114V (Same CPU, 8 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 460M 1.5 GB VRAM), and so far, all the games i played on it are perfect (not a lot, but some of them are known to be pretty heavy, like MGS2). The only small hiccup i managed to run into was a massive slowdown while playing FFXII International and using Basch's Third Mist Knack (14-15 FPS when the fire swords hit the enemy and fire covers the screen), but i solved the problem lowering the Custom Resolution from 1280x720 to 2x.
Sure, Xenosaga or MGS3, at least from what i read in the forum should still be heavy as f**k, but maybe with a bit of overclock... I don't know about the Alienware, but for the asus, with a good cooling pad there may be some margin for squeezing more mhz out of the CPU.
I'm going to do some tests on GT3 as soon i can get my copy back and i will report the results.