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    Help. Weird issue with GTA 4

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by ZazzMaTazz, May 30, 2011.

  1. ZazzMaTazz

    ZazzMaTazz Notebook Enthusiast

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    Okay, I have downloaded and installed the newest beta drivers for the nvidia card. All my games run fine. However when I try to play GTA 4 it still wants to recognize the intel display driver instead of the nvidia even though I have my global settings set to use the nvidia driver. I even checked the GTA.EXE to use it in the white box in the control panel, but it refuses to use it. I am at a lost, help please anyone.
     
    ZazzMaTazz, May 30, 2011
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    xSix Notebook Geek

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    Try
    "white listing" the LaunchGTA.exe not GTA.exe
    with the 275.27 drivers (the newst ones, forgive me if the number is wrong D :) gta runs fine with everything on HIGH save for shadows, which are on med.
     
    xSix, May 31, 2011
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    ZazzMaTazz Notebook Enthusiast

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    Fixed it. Had to create a shortcut of the launchgta4.exe and then edit the target line with -norestrictions to get it to let me change the video settings. Hope this helps anyone else with this problem.
     
    ZazzMaTazz, Jun 1, 2011
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    iNTERNETUAL Notebook Enthusiast

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    This kind of stuff is extremely annoying, I wish they would just give us back the BIOS option to use discrete graphics only, one reason I will never get rid of my m11x R1! This Optimus crap is pretty much worthless!
     
    iNTERNETUAL, Jun 2, 2011
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    madmantm Notebook Consultant

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    Rep+ and join the club, i wish i had this option too.
     
    madmantm, Jun 2, 2011
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    Stylomonk Newbie

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    Could u kindly advise how u edit the target? as i'm having this problem of not able to play.
    My car is driving in the air.....
    I have download the navidia driver 275.33 but still not able to fix this problem.

    All graphic is running on low and resoultion is the lowest.
     
    Stylomonk, Jun 7, 2011
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    Infin1ty Notebook Geek

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    "the newest drivers are not always the best drivers"

    Glad to see you worked the problem out though
     
    Infin1ty, Jun 7, 2011
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    Sure. Make a short cut of launchGTA4.exe. Put it on your desktop. Then right click and go to properties. Now, the targer line should already be highlighted in a box. Move your cursor all the way to the end of the target line..hit the spacebar once and add -norestrictions. Click the ok button. Now double click on the shortcut and the game will launch and you should be able to adjust the settings.
     
    ZazzMaTazz, Jun 8, 2011
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    @ZazzMaTazz: Even I've been facing the same problem and I tried doing what you mentioned above; but still its the same.. cars, in the air.. also, is there anyway that I can enable nvidia as the default card for all the applications? thnx...
     
    aliengod999, Aug 5, 2011
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