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    call of duty ghosts and lagging with the m17

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by bader102, May 3, 2014.

  1. bader102

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    have you tried updating to catalyst 14.4?? helped my alienware m17x r3. and you meaning frame rate lag or connection lag
     
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    actully i dont know if i have uodated it or i didnt for the lag its frame rate lag ..


    could u please give me the way how to update to the catalyst 14 ?
     
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    ok am downloading it right now but do i need to reinstall the old driver and install this one ? thanx
     
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    shouldnt have to. just install catalyst, it updated my drivers for me
     
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    the game just isn't reall well optimized!
     
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    oh god the same issue happend again when i install the new driver on the old one and i restarted my pc i tryed to ply the game but looks like its not recognized to the system when i press right click and screen resolution after that advanced settings it is not recognized to the system it says standard vga graphica Adapter even that i tryed to reinstall it and install it again the same issue happend ..please can u help me guyz what shall i do right now ,,

    the pic will show every thing ..

    3b787ae331c433c.png
     
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    easily fixable, go to dells support site and grab the amd drivers from there. Driver Details | Dell US
     
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    thats odd, never had that issue with my r3 or r5...
     
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    that one is old mate i tryed the dell drivers but its old ...
     
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    yea, but if the catalyst install didnt install drivers, that may be your only option
     
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    idk but do u think this is a hardware problem |?
     
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    doubt it, even on my r9 m290x (alienware 17) and my now custom desktop with the r9 295x cod ghosts either crashes or is laggy... the game was porrly optimized for pc, instead they chose to optimize it for ps4 and xbox one..
     
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    wow, don't know why i keep giving this POS game a chance....it just black screened on me and i thought it had killed my OC but it didn't...yes, it the game is that bad! :p
     
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    put even black ops 1 is lagging idk whats the problem please i need ur help i want to install the new catalyst manager 14.4

    sad face :(
     
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    try to install it again... i think you may have clicked uninstall.., hit install on the screen like the one im attaching instalamd.png
     
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    mate i pressed the install button and am sure about that even that its showen in my system that its installed but it won't be recognized


    what about formatting >? i will put this as a last option ..
     
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    it seems like you did what ti forced me to do, it uninstalled my catalyst control center and drivers, had me reboot then i had to reinstall, shouldnt be coming up as vga adapter
     
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    :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
     
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    i tryed that also same problem still
     
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    weird, if i was there i could help, but its kinda hard atempting to do this over the pc, re install the dell drivers.
     
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    that's it, i'm giving up on this game like i did with eye-dub....they used to care but they don't now! :(
     
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    thats why i dont play cod on my pc.. i stick to bf4 and arma..
     
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    i'll give sledgehammer a chance on their first outing but i am not buying anything from IW....treyarch has become the better studio even though they started out like sledgehammer and they're still in my good books.
     
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    cod in itself just got to diluted for me, cod 4 was near perfect, mw2 was a step forward, mw3 was a smaller step forward everygame after that was a step back.. adding all the trackign scopes and such..
     
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    at least they ran really well on PC (except Blops 1) compared to ghosts....urgh totally abismal!
     
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    Weird cod ghosts runs perfectly smooth on my gtx660m. This must be an amd driver issue. What OS is the op running. I run win8


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    Running it on the extra image quality setting really kills the fps for me so I had to chuck it down to high and it still dropped into the 30s...i Uninstalled it because I kept getting black screen crashes.

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    It runs as smooth as glass for me also with 780M SLI on the M18xR2 and Alienware 18, under Win7 and Win8. BF4 has more glitches than CoD: Ghosts does on both machines, but not buggy enough to avoid playing it.
     
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    what are ppl's settings?
     
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    Yes I did have to turn some settings down. I ran some stuff on extra and some stuff I had to turn down. I forget which as I uninstalled already. I find in some games you can't tell much difference between medium and ultra. I think this was one of those games. Campaign on this was actually very good.


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