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    Skyrim FPS problems NVIDIA 560M

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by McGee1, Nov 16, 2011.

  1. Matt Mcneil

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    Nope, I am in the utility, but everything is blocked.
    D:
     
    Matt Mcneil, Nov 17, 2011
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    hmmmm...i'm running the unlocked A08 bios. You on the stock dell bios?
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 17, 2011
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    Oh, Well that's the problem. Now I remember I posted in this chat to help OP, but I don't have an Alienware. I just gave him pointers on what I did to make Skyrim run smoother.. Your Dell has the unlocked bios. Sorry to waste your time.
     
    Matt Mcneil, Nov 17, 2011
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    no biggie, your laptop should still work with the XTU though
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 17, 2011
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    Really, do I need the unlocked BIOS? If so, how would I go about getting that..
     
    Matt Mcneil, Nov 17, 2011
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    i thought that Clevos already came with no restrictions in the bios. The alienwares have a very restricted bios by default
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 17, 2011
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    I bought from Ibuypower, because I didn't feel like building one myself grom the actual clevo website.. Hmm.. I didn't do any updating besides for Windows when I got it, could my bios be outdated?
     
    Matt Mcneil, Nov 17, 2011
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    i doubt it. You should go in and see what options you have in the bios.

    try runnning xtu in admin mode. When happens when you click on the manual tuning button on the left menu?
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 17, 2011
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    Okay, there's two .exes. There's the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, and there's an XtuService.exe. Which one do I run? I tried both, In admin mode, the XtuService won't open, says: Cannot start service form command line or a debugger. A windows Service must first be installed blah blah... But, the Extreme Tuning one opens but I have no control in the manual Tuning.
     
    Matt Mcneil, Nov 17, 2011
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    Downloading now. I'll let you know!
     
    Matt Mcneil, Nov 17, 2011
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    It says Extreme Tuning Utility could not be contacted.. D:
     
    Matt Mcneil, Nov 17, 2011
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    I have the same problem manual tuning is locked... You gave V2.1 and not 3.0 was that your intention?


    installed the 2.1 version same as matt: Extreme Tuning Utility service could not be contacted
    I use an AW m17x locked bios
     
    Mkkillah, Nov 18, 2011
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    2.1 is the version i am using so that was the intention.

    ok, there is one step that I forgot to mention...you have to enable overriding the defaults in the bios...

    one sec, let me look for a a screenshot
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 18, 2011
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    Okay thanks friend! +Rep power to you. :)
     
    Matt Mcneil, Nov 18, 2011
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    Thanks Matt!

    Ok, i don't know what it is in the Clevo bios, but in the Alienware Insyde bios, the way to unlock overclocking is to go to the advanced tab and do this:

    Overclocking Feature [ENABLED]
    Override Turbo Setting [ENABLED]

    save, reboot

    NOw, when you go into XTU, you should get a few more features enabled :D
     

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    thinking about trying this how much of a performance increase does this program give you?
     
    bigtonyman, Nov 18, 2011
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    for me, setting my max turbo tdp to 57w (cpu uses 53w but you need to set higher because of vdroop) equals a permanent 300mhz turbo speed increase to 3.1+ghz with 4 cores @ 100% (the multiplier fluctuates between 30-31 as advertised)

    if i don't do this, my max turbo after a while will eventually drop to 2.8ghz with 4 cores @100%

    Also, i've bumped my bclk up to 104.5 so that's another 135mhz. This causes everything in my computer to be slightly overclocked so things are slightly faster

    It really only matters in CPU intensive tasks and benchmarks. Vid games won't get much faster fps because that's mostly GPU limited
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 18, 2011
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    ah alright, guess ill do it when i decide to punish my system with a vantage run or something :D
     
    bigtonyman, Nov 18, 2011
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    Exactly :D...set it to stock for everyday
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 18, 2011
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    My bios doesn't have those options, it's clearly locked :( Well, thank you so much for the effort!
     
    Matt Mcneil, Nov 18, 2011
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    I had a clevo P150HM and I thought that they werent locked at all :/.

    I'm going 2 try now I will update :p
     
    Mkkillah, Nov 18, 2011
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    Update the BIOS?
     
    Matt Mcneil, Nov 18, 2011
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    I noticed my Hotkey doesn't have an affect on performance no matter what it's set too. What? o_O
     
    Matt Mcneil, Nov 25, 2011
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