Hi I recently bought an m17x r4, it came last Wednesday. I was excited to see how well it ran some of my games. I bought with it the gtx 675m. On all the games I've tested it runs fine! however 2 out of the 5 games that I've tried so far will not run because of Optimus. (these games being GTA 4 and Mafia 2) GTA 4 won't recognize my Nvidia card and Mafia 2 won't even start. I've done research and I'm pretty confidant that the reason they aren't working is because of Optimus. I'm kind of upset because I spent so much money on this laptop and now it won't play 2 of my favorite games? I know this isn't dell's fault it's nvidia's.
What I want to know is can I send my laptop back to have them give me a graphics card that will actually run the games I'd like it to? These were 2 of the key games I was planing on playing and again I can't because of Optimus. If they won't give me a new card would I be able to get a refund? because I feel this is sort of ridiculous. So what do you think are my options? Thanks for the help!
Edit: for some reason I've been having trouble posting on this site. Sorry.
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have you tried whitelisting those two games?
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Modded bios is for R3, DO NOT FLASH ON R4!!
Whitelist the games in nvidia contol panel!
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Thanks for the response guys! Whitelisting was one of the very first things I tried and it didn't work. I'm able to run one game in particular in windowed mode (which isn't that bad but its still annoying). Maybe these are the only 2 games I will have problems with though? Idk
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Can you possibly just disable the integrated graphics and make it so your 675 is the default? you should be able to do this in the bios but i dont know if you need a modded bios for this.
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how do you if optimus is being used in your games? i have an r4 i can't even tell lol.
Returning latptop to switch GPU?
Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Zomborgi, May 20, 2012.