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    Slow Gaming issue

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by briantyk, Jul 14, 2012.

  1. briantyk

    briantyk Newbie

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    I bought my M17x R4 about a month ago with Intel Core i7-3610QM, 8 GB kingston plug n play ram, 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M, and a kingston hyper x ssd. I am not a heavy gamer but I do like my games to run smoothly. I was able to run Left4Dead 2 maxed the first week I had the laptop but now I cannot run it maxed without lag. According to notebookcheck.net, my graphics card should be able to run many high end games at stable framerates. I am confused what the problem is. I have steam installed on my HDD and steam games on my SSD. I also run windows on high performance. Any help/ideas?
     
    briantyk, Jul 14, 2012
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  2. bigtonyman

    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    Try whitelisting the games and see if that helps. If you need help with that follow the guide in my sig. :)
     
    bigtonyman, Jul 14, 2012
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  3. black-bean

    black-bean Notebook Consultant

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    i would try to install the latest driver and check my GPU temps under game load.
    got hwinfo?
    and post it here.
     
    black-bean, Jul 14, 2012
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    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    I haven't really been keeping up with nvidia drivers lately as I have an AMD card now, but this driver looks like it would work. :)

    v302.77 Windows 7/Vista 64bit | Dell Mobile
     
    bigtonyman, Jul 14, 2012
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    zoolian982 Notebook Deity

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    You are playing while plugged in, right?
     
    zoolian982, Jul 14, 2012
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