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    M17x-R2 major screen tearing

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by zchay7e, Mar 6, 2011.

  1. zchay7e

    zchay7e Notebook Consultant

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    Hi guys,

    I've got the R2 with crossfire 5870's and I've tried both Dell drivers and the newest 11.2 from AMD, but in my favorite games (so far I've tried Starcraft 2, Counter-strike Source) there's major screen tearing going on. I understand thats from the crossfire? I've also installed the radeonpro tool but no change really. I can't play CSS like this as the screen tears every minute or so at certain positions and the screen generally is jumpy in 3d games.

    Any ideas? Anybody else play CSS with crossfire 5870 and NOT have any problems??
     
    zchay7e, Mar 6, 2011
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    SpecialEffect Notebook Guru

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    I play CSS and on crossfire I usually see color tering... Like a little pink color going on but it flickers quickly... Doesn't happen to all games though so I guessing it's normal... And on peoples names when they chat it flickers abit... You get thAt also?
     
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    zchay7e Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah I do actually - in Starcraft 2 in addition to the screen tearing. The blue fonts are fine but the yellow ones are like you describe - don't you get any mad screen flickering?? What drivers are you using? And did you update vbios?? I'm on A08 bios and dunno vbios - I haven't touched it since it was shipped.
     
    zchay7e, Mar 7, 2011
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