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    New beta drivers for r2 on Dell support

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Chandicuts, Jun 30, 2010.

  1. Chandicuts

    Chandicuts Notebook Enthusiast

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    Got my r2 yesterday, and it's brilliant....well aprt from the optimus issues.

    Anyway, I have only played portal and DoWII so far - portal runs perfectly, but DoWII does not let me adjust graphics settings above low/medium for some reason - still plays well at those settings.

    Regarding the optimus tool that was posted on here, before I installed the new beta drivers the 335m was idleing all the time browsing windows/internet and kicked 'on' when running portal and DoWII. These new drivers have made a difference and now the 335m is 'off' when doing normal windows browsing, and turns on correctly when running the aforementioned games.

    So it seems optimus is mostly working for these two games at least. Maybe battery will live up to expectations now that the 335m is not always idleing!
     
    Chandicuts, Jun 30, 2010
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  2. ninja2000

    ninja2000 Mash IT

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    Yeah, I posted this a little while ago as someone else was having problems with battery life. You can also get the original driver to switch off the nvidia in idle with an addition in registry.

    I am finding problems with the beta driver with BFBC2 and COD WOW, i keep getting kicked by punkbuster for multiple D3D drivers :(

    And yeah I have the DOW2 issues, I have tried everything to get around it. I even tried changing the config file but it just overwrites it :(
     
    ninja2000, Jun 30, 2010
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    Radam Notebook Geek

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    Have you tried setting the config file to read only?
     
    Radam, Jun 30, 2010
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    thisguyrighthere Notebook Guru

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    I just got mine yesterday as well.

    Tried Lost Planet benchmark and it kept dropping to single digit frames and using the Intel HD graphics. After installing the beta drivers it went ahead and used the 335M.

    I tried Dow, Supreme Commander 2, Cod4, BC2 and L4D2 and Section 8. All were playable on medium settings. L4D2 had a strange mouse delay though.

    Maybe tonight I'll have some more time to mess around with things.

    All in all I'm pleased. I just hope the Optimus thing gets fixed.

    I noticed the beta drivers creates a choice in the Nvidia control panel to default to the 335M. Anyone try that?
     
    thisguyrighthere, Jun 30, 2010
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  5. ninja2000

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    nope, I didnt try that. I was hoping there was a launch option to disable the gfx card check?
     
    ninja2000, Jun 30, 2010
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    BatBoy, Jun 30, 2010
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