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    Mass Effect 3 Demo is really laggy.

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Mudig, Feb 14, 2012.

  1. Mudig

    Mudig Notebook Consultant

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    I don't get it. ME2 runs just fine, and this game doesn't look all that much better than ME2. What am I doing wrong?
     
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    sounds like you are running on the integrated GPU and not the gt 555m. All you need to probably fix this is just whitelist the .exe if you can find it. The link in my sig should help you out. :)

    Edit: Not sure what drivers you are running, but the newest nvidia beta drivers added a performance profile for mass effect 3. So a driver update could fix it as well. You can find the newest drivers here: Nvidia Drivers 295.51 Beta
     
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    I never figured it would be the whitelist issue because I right click the game and pick run with GT555m, but it turns out that I had to whitelist the main loader file in the directory. It works fine now. Thanks.
     
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    Anytime, Now go enjoy the game :D
     
    bigtonyman, Feb 14, 2012
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