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    Performance decrease

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Stelio, Oct 2, 2011.

  1. Stelio

    Stelio Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys,

    My roommate has the exact same m17x system as me in my signature (I ordered it for him) and yet he has significantly better performance. Such as he loads into games faster and textures are smoother (face/bodies,effects, shadows). We have the same amd driver installed. I think my graphics card might be a problem as when I alt/tab out of Swtor (we are both in the closed beta testing) the screen flashes purple and so do all the textures.

    He is playing on a 24" monitor and I am playing on my 27" monitor or my 32" tv/monitor.

    Is there anything I can do to improve performance? Maybe change to default Dell drivers? Thanks for any help.
     
    Stelio, Oct 2, 2011
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  2. DarkXeRoX

    DarkXeRoX Notebook Consultant

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    both play on the same resolution ?
     
    DarkXeRoX, Oct 2, 2011
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  3. Stelio

    Stelio Notebook Evangelist

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    Yup

    10char
     
    Stelio, Oct 2, 2011
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  4. nayilalien

    nayilalien Notebook Evangelist

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    Go back to stock Dell Drivers. Uninstall from device manager, use driver sweeper to remove everything and then install the 6990m driver from DELL. Yes, I know you have the 6970m and so do I.
     
    nayilalien, Oct 2, 2011
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  5. Stelio

    Stelio Notebook Evangelist

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    will the 6990m driver work in BF3, Swtor? 11.8 did not work with swtor
     
    Stelio, Oct 3, 2011
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  6. SlickDude80

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    first thing i would are check all the things that are within your power...like make sure you are using the the performance energy profile.

    Are you guys using the exact same drivers etc? is he overclocking

    you may need to reinstall drivers and or windows before coming to a conclusion that you have a hardware issue
     
    SlickDude80, Oct 3, 2011
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