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    need help with my m17x R3 VGA card GTX 460M :(

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by thai0101, Feb 20, 2012.

  1. thai0101

    thai0101 Newbie

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    i bought this M17x R3 for 1 week and 1 day ... up to now ; i cant switch my Alienware from onboard card to Vga card - GTX 460 M 1,5 Gb ... :(

    can someone teach me how to ? ... i'm newest member at alienware ! :D

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    thank you very much to all :)
     
    thai0101, Feb 20, 2012
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    zoolian982 Notebook Deity

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    Optimus is an automatic switching system. You don't do anything. However if you would like to run programs with the nvidia card, you would whitelist them in the nvidia control panel to run on the "High Performance" card.

    Right click anywhere on the desktop and you should see an option for Nvidia.
     
    zoolian982, Feb 20, 2012
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    thai0101 Newbie

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    OMG ! that's my problem ! it cant switch by itself ... my brother using 2 years old M17x ... with noobie gear ...

    i'm using 2011 M17x R3 ... and cant play same game ... :(

    i tried a lot of times about change Nvidia Driver ... turn off onboard vga ... GTX 460M seem cant run ...
     
    thai0101, Feb 20, 2012
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    What game are you trying to run? You might have to lower the settings to play the game fluently. Don't forget, the R3 is a single GPU laptop whereas your brothers is a dual GPU laptop.
     
    SkylineLvr, Feb 20, 2012
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    thank you all ... PROLEM RESOLVED ...

    cant use windows server 2008 R2 data center ... :(

    i tried another OS ... windows7 ultimate and VGA card working properly
     
    thai0101, Feb 22, 2012
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