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    Call of Duty 4 Not Recognizing the nVidia card

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Kuroishi, Jul 20, 2011.

  1. Kuroishi

    Kuroishi Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well... I seem to have tried most everything. I am trying to play Call of Duty 4 (Steam Download) with my M14x and it does not detect the nvidia card at all. I tried forcing it so that everything ran through the card, tried to run the program itself with the card, no dice.

    Any tips anyone? Maybe its drivers?
     
    Kuroishi, Jul 20, 2011
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  2. azn4lif3s

    azn4lif3s Notebook Consultant

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    Um what do you mean as it doesn't recognize it? Does it not allow you to start the game where a message pops up saying "steam does not recognize this card and we do not recommend you using it?" or something like that?
     
    azn4lif3s, Jul 20, 2011
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  3. eats7

    eats7 Notebook Evangelist

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    okay, which drivers are you using?
     
    eats7, Jul 20, 2011
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    /Drakk_ Notebook Consultant

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    Steam and Optimus are not friendly with each other as far as I know. Have you white listed the steam.exe?
     
    /Drakk_, Jul 20, 2011
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  5. CGSDR

    CGSDR Alien Master Race

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    For me I dont use the Steam version, I use the retail one, so I just whitelist both the SP and MP .exe of CoD4, and I think Steam should be like that too, and dont forget, after you whitelist the thing up, you may need to set the setting by yourself, because it wont do by itself though.
     
    CGSDR, Jul 20, 2011
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  6. M14xKing

    M14xKing Notebook Enthusiast

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    Right click over the desktop icon hover over run with graphics card choose High-Performance
     
    M14xKing, Jul 21, 2011
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