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    Disabling Optimus: Smartest Thing I Ever Did

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by hex9979, Oct 22, 2011.

  1. hex9979

    hex9979 Newbie

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    Wow.

    I had graphics and driver issues for the first few months of owning my Alienware m17x with the Nvidia 460M. I came across a post that there is a modified Bios out there to disable the integrated intel graphics.

    Once I disabled it, instantly all of my problems disappeared! I was getting 60+FPS on my favorite games at the highest level of graphics, where I was previously getting 20-25FPS.

    I was able to update my driver with the modified NVAM file without blue screens.

    I am SOOOO happy I did this. If you don't care much about portability (if you did why did you buy a laptop this heavy) then you are good to go!

    Just google the insyde modified bios and welcome to actual gaming!
     
    hex9979, Oct 22, 2011
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  2. SlickDude80

    SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet

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    lol...congratz bro! Life with your computer will be way better now.

    Optimus in theory is wonderful, but in practice, the autoswitching doesn't always work correctly
     
    SlickDude80, Oct 22, 2011
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  3. hex9979

    hex9979 Newbie

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    The wierd thing is when optimus was enabled, i would even get the little nvidia icon in my sys tray that said it was using the discrete graphics.. well it was lying!!
     
    hex9979, Oct 22, 2011
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  4. zoolian982

    zoolian982 Notebook Deity

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    Just remember to give +rep to the people you took the information from ;D
     
    zoolian982, Oct 22, 2011
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  5. bigtonyman

    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    Optimus hasn't been that bad for me, i just wish the 460m had a bit more power :D looks like ill be going ATI for a while :p
     
    bigtonyman, Oct 22, 2011
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  6. ninja2000

    ninja2000 Mash IT

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    I had nothing but trouble with optimus. For a few games it works great, but for RUSE, DOW2 I get much better fps without it. Also RUSE would give me really weird gfx glitches.

    Also the best thing I ever did!
     
    ninja2000, Oct 23, 2011
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  7. james_2k

    james_2k Notebook Evangelist

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    get the 580, like a boss
     
    james_2k, Oct 23, 2011
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  8. paradigm

    paradigm Notebook Deity

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    don't even get me started on optimus....it took me 2 replacements (for optimus and other unrelated issues) to switch co. and i must say ATI hasn't let me down...save for drivers, i really like the NV driver development teams..... and this is coming from an NVIDIA fanboy.... and since i was really pinning for portability and power i went with the 6970M...
     
    paradigm, Oct 23, 2011
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  9. bigtonyman

    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    If i had the money for it i would, but sadly i don't :(
     
    bigtonyman, Oct 23, 2011
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