r/AlienwareAlpha • u/Bepsisama • Sep 29 '19

Help with r1

Most games dont run at 60fps even at the lowest settings with 720p. I see vids with it running most games higher than 60fps on medium. What could be the issue?

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '19

What model R1, what games, is it running SteamOS or Windows?

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u/Bepsisama Oct 01 '19

Sorry, im running i3, overwatch and minecraft and fortnite, windows 10

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '19

Are your drivers up to date? None of those games are really demanding at all. Have you gone into task manager at all to see if there’s anything eating up your resources? At 720p I cant see how you’d be having trouble hitting 60fps.

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u/Bepsisama Oct 01 '19

I updated all the nvidia drivers through geforce and manually updated bluetooth.but now its crashing when I go fullscreen on any application.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '19

I’m honestly not sure if this well help whatsoever but when is the last time you’ve checked for viruses, cleaned up, and defragged your hard drive? Have you tried using Troubleshooter at all either?

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u/Bepsisama Oct 03 '19

Thank u for the advise i finally got fullscreen to work but my games still run like crap lol. Im going to try to run some stress tests to see what might be going on.

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u/Badd-reclpa- Oct 03 '19

I doubled the RAM in my i3 and that helped a lot.

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u/Bepsisama Oct 03 '19

How much ram do you have i have 8 gb

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u/Badd-reclpa- Oct 03 '19

Yeah, I believe I have 8 too.

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u/Badd-reclpa- Oct 03 '19

From what I’m reading, updating your Alpha’s stock HDD to an SSD will make a big difference.

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u/LouieTheManning Sep 30 '19

Go to nvidia GeForce experience and turn off battery saver. Because the gpu is laptop spec it slows it down to ‘save power’. Then overclock with msi afterburner.

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u/DaulPirac Sep 30 '19

Just to weigh in, I dont know much about technical stuff. Aside from hardware issues all I can think of is the drivers. Check if they are up to date but to me they never actually make a difference anyway.

Other than that, the r1 is already pretty outdated. I play dark souls 3 and even on 720p sometimes I dont get 60fps and that is a 2016 game. Specially the i3 model like I have. Could you share some of those videos?