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    Is my graphics card messed up?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by (Txc)Traveler, Aug 18, 2010.

  1. (Txc)Traveler

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    Hello, so I have noticed recently that my framerate has dropped alot in the past week as far as playing games and even when opening a new tab on chrome it gets choppy if I am on the nvidia graphis card but not the intel one. My question is, could my graphics card possibly messed up? I am in the process of transferring files to reformat incase I have a virus, but something tells me that it has to do with the graphics card, its been extremly hot lately and my m11x r1 laptop already gets extremely hot even when it was cold temperature wise outside. Could that have damaged it? Also been playing alot of starcraft 2 and now its unplayable, even on low settings for everything it lags by 2 seconds when i order units around and framerate drops to single digits in even the smallest of battles, what do I do?
     
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    did you change drivers?
     
    danyune, Aug 18, 2010
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    Noah14, Aug 18, 2010
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    Ahhh man......I hope its not too late...
     
    (Txc)Traveler, Aug 18, 2010
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    Has the bug been auto-patched yet? It's bloody disgraceful that a game costing in excess of $100m to develop could harbour such a dangerous glitch.. ActiBlizz should be offering repairations to those affected.
     
    Bendak, Aug 18, 2010
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    Not that we know off.
    Then again, I myself haven't been checking the patch notes.
     
    Noah14, Aug 18, 2010
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