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    what the hell is going on help

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by manonmmon2009, Oct 2, 2011.

  1. manonmmon2009

    manonmmon2009 Newbie

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    I have an Alienware m17x r3 with a 460m gpu.Any time i shutdown my system after playing Crysis 2,when I power on again and attempt to play it (Crysis 2) or any other game.The system uses the integrated Intel gpu and not the 460m giving me poor performance.Why is this happening?

    Sorry about before.
     
    manonmmon2009, Oct 2, 2011
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  2. aarpcard

    aarpcard Notebook Deity

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    I'm not sure how you expect people to help you when you state your problem in one giant run on paragraph with no punctuation.

    Can you try to be clearer about what's going on?
     
    aarpcard, Oct 2, 2011
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  3. jono123

    jono123 Notebook Consultant

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    If your running off the battery the system will switch back to the integrated card to save power. Make sure your mains are in and on. Reboot changing your card settings in the bios.
     
    jono123, Oct 3, 2011
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    nayilalien Notebook Evangelist

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    Have you done the new Bios Update?
     
    nayilalien, Oct 3, 2011
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  5. Stampy

    Stampy Notebook Consultant

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    Add a line in nvidia control panel, so that your video games use the high performance processor. Also, when starting the game if it STILL uses the amazing intel xD... try looking for the actual ".exe" file and right click it to run with high performance graphic card (Don't know why, but with me, it just don't work with shortcuts).
    I gotta say this is not normal though, look into the last drivers maybe? Start asking yourself what parameter did you change before this problem started to happen (game install, driver, hardware change etc...).
    Good luck
     
    Stampy, Oct 3, 2011
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  6. zoolian982

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    No, this is actually quite normal. I mean, the OP doesn't mention using the control panel or saving the profiles, so I'd presume he just right clicks on the exe file and chooses to run on the high performance.
     
    zoolian982, Oct 3, 2011
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  7. Stampy

    Stampy Notebook Consultant

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    This has a sarcasm smell to it...
     
    Stampy, Oct 3, 2011
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    I'm just honestly replying to the op's post. I only have a little to go off of, and logically, he didnt say he saved profiles or anything. My intention wasn't to make it sarcastic.
     
    zoolian982, Oct 3, 2011
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