Far Cry 3 Runs Slooow And Crashes - New Alienware M17X

I'm guessing this must be a driver issue of some kind.

I have a new Alienware MX17 (with specs below) almost the first thing I did with it was to install Steam and decided to give Fra Cry 3 a blast. Downloaded and installed and it ran ok, if a little slow at times and with occasional crashes. Then after about a week, today I started up and opened Far Cry 3 and it is so slow it is impossible to play. Settings are still set to optimal.

There was a Windows update - but that was after the game was running slow. I allowed the update because I thought maybe it would help speed things up but no luck there.

Any ideas?

Alienware MX17
Intel core i7-3630QM
8GB Ram
Windows 8 64 bit
Geforce GTX 675M

 

Try updating your video card driver..

 

Also try other games and check the GPU/CPU temperatures with HWinfo.

Laptop is not new. It is most likely a Refurb R4, buying a refurb can be deadly if you don't buy it directly from Dell.....and do you have any warranty bro ?

 

Thanks - how?

 

Not a refurb. It was old stock at John Lewis. Their one and only attempt to sell Alienware at their store and no one wanted it. Some 6 months old I believe but not a refurb, anyway..

 

if you allow i will help you via teamviewer

 

Thanks but I don't like putting out on my first date... could you just walk me through?

 

OK

first

go to controll panel and uninstall ALL nvidia drivers

then restart the laptop

Then download and install this

http://www.nvidia.com/content/Drive...-international-whql.exe&lang=us&type=geforcem

Then install this

http://www.hwinfo.com/files/hw32_432.exe

Run in Sensor Only

Then scroll down a bit and take a screenshot so i can see the temperatures of GeForce card and CPU, and post it here

 

You mean go to Device Manager - display adapters - right click on Nvidia - uninstall ?

 

See that is why i wanted teamviewer - i would teach you quickly

Here i have to make 500 posts in order to help

Go to Control Panel and pick add/remove programs, locate all NVidia software and Uninstall it one by one

If you do it the way you want you will not uninstall the driver itself...

 

Sorry, man - I don't have Teamviewer anyway. But thanks for your help -

I uninstalled all the Nvidia stuff as you suggested. A few restarts but ready for the next step...

 

A simple install of teamviewer would do it but he would prob "assault" machine right?!

 

you may want to double check your power plan settings. i had witched to power saver when on battery and forgot to switch it back to high performance and had a very similar issue. switched it back to high performance and all was resolved.

 

Here's a tutorial from our support site to perform a clean driver re installation, uninstall the video drivers as explained in the article and install this one.

EDIT ADD: Check if your games are running with the Nvidia card, this article explains how.