The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Horizontal bars issue while gaming

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by LeoRigonatti, Nov 21, 2011.

  1. LeoRigonatti

    LeoRigonatti Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    4
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I'm having this really weird issue that's happening on my recently bought m17xr3 that I can't really explain, to clarify things I made this video:
    Horizontal lines issue on M17x - YouTube
    as you can see horizontal bars keep popping up on my screen as soon as I enter any game (Battlefield 3 was just an example) and the gameplay gets really laggy.. this started happening about 2 weeks a go and progressively started getting more and more often, up to a point where it is happening every single time I try to play..
    I'm sorry for my crappy english, I'm not a native speaker, but I really wish you guys could help me, this is really bothering me..

    computer specs:
    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz
    2 GB AMD Radeon HD 6900M Series
    8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1600MHz (4DIMMS)
    500GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s
     
    LeoRigonatti, Nov 21, 2011
    #1
  2. mbob

    mbob Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    36
    Messages:
    95
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I had a tearing bar I resolved - 6990m tearing on video?

    *Disregard, your video finished processing and I could watch it. Mine wasn't like that . Are those bars static looking?
     
    mbob, Nov 21, 2011
    #2
  3. LeoRigonatti

    LeoRigonatti Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    4
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Thanks for the answer but I checked a few other people that actually had the same problem than you and apparently it's not the same as mine, because I tried the solutions and it didn't work.. any other ideas?

    *now that I saw your edit: I'm not actually sure what they look like.. another observation is that my computer seems to be really slower when I have that issue, loadings take more, etc
     
    LeoRigonatti, Nov 21, 2011
    #3
  4. SlickDude80

    SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    3,262
    Messages:
    4,997
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    106
    is this only on BF3 or on all games?

    have you checked your vid card temps? I bet they are getting toasty
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 22, 2011
    #4
  5. LeoRigonatti

    LeoRigonatti Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    4
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    it's on every single game I play and temps while running BF3 were stable at about 60 celsius
     
    LeoRigonatti, Nov 22, 2011
    #5
  6. SlickDude80

    SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    3,262
    Messages:
    4,997
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    106
    ok, well 60c is not hot.

    have you done a clean reinstall of your amd drivers?
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 22, 2011
    #6
  7. LeoRigonatti

    LeoRigonatti Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    4
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    [​IMG]

    I'm getting this error when trying to install the AMD Catalyst on my pc, in portuguese it means:
    "It was not possible to download the AMD Catalyst Mobility on your computer because of an incompatiblity of hardware/software in your computer.

    There is no support for the version of your graphics adapter.
    Contact the manufacturer of your notebook for an update of your graphics driver"
    help? lol
     
    LeoRigonatti, Nov 23, 2011
    #7