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    Having a couple of problems after a Clean Install

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by RubberChickin, Jan 6, 2012.

  1. RubberChickin

    RubberChickin Newbie

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    A while ago I had to clean install due to a virus on my computer. It was the first time I ever had to do it and I followed the instructions from another thread on this forum. However 2 things that I haven't been able to "fix" is my wireless latency issue and the webcam. Whenever I play any multiplayer game via wireless I have about 50ms more latency than I did before. Also I can't find the right driver/application to reinstall the webcam central thing. These are two relatively small things but I would like to get things back to the way they were. Any information or help would be great thanks!
     
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    ValkerieFire God Follower

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    1) the webcam has no driver. Windows 7 should enable it automatically. Have you tried to use it?

    2) The wifi may not be a driver issue. Are you downloading files, torrents, streaming Netflix, pandora etc? Any of those tasks with a game seriously worsen my latency. Is your router encrypted? If not, your neighbor doing any of those tasks (on your network) will slow down access also.
     
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    RubberChickin Newbie

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    1. It does work however before the clean install there was like a webcam manager application that would pop up every time I used it. Also the quality seems a lot worse but that might just be me remembering things wrong.

    2. As far as I can tell I don't have any programs causing latency issues. Usually all my programs are closed when playing games. Also this happens no matter what wireless I am connecting to so I don't think its a problem with the individual routers.
     
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    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    have you tried connecting with an Ethernet cord to make sure its the card, and not the game or a software issue?
     
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    Well to get my wireless to work at all, after the clean install, I had to hook up my computer to the ethernet and go to device manager and click on update drivers for the wireless card, even after i manually installed the driver from dell.com.

    Could this be the cause of the problem? If so how would I go about fixing it?
     
    RubberChickin, Jan 9, 2012
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