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    Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by suntears, Sep 6, 2011.

  1. suntears

    suntears Newbie

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    I'm playing Space Marine, and the textures won't load although cutscenes, menus, and lightning all render just fine. The game doesn't even stutter and the audio comes in just fine. Instead of textures all I get is black, and if I turn the textures to low, I can see blood splatter effects but that's it.

    I have triple checked to make sure the dedicated NVIDIA GPU is running, which it is as the game won't launch if I force the Intel GPU to run the game.

    I'm running on the A03 BIOS, the stock NVIDIA drivers from Dell, with the core i7 2630QM at 2.0GHz, the 3GB 555m card (again, with the stock 267.21 A01 drivers), and 8GB RAM 1600 MHz.

    Any advice?
     
    suntears, Sep 6, 2011
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  2. Marcymaru

    Marcymaru Notebook Consultant

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    Update drivers!
     
    Marcymaru, Sep 7, 2011
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    stryderxx Notebook Guru

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    Make sure that your global setting for Antialiasing in the Nvidia control panel are set to Application-controlled. Any other setting will corrupt the games graphics.
     
    stryderxx, Sep 7, 2011
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  4. ZACK02

    ZACK02 Notebook Consultant

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    How can I know if I need to update de drivers of my m14x?.. and which updates are? cpu? BIOS? or what? thanks.

    P.S. I got mine yesterday
     
    ZACK02, Sep 9, 2011
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