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    Street Fighter 4 lagging horribly

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Soni4126, Feb 16, 2011.

  1. Soni4126

    Soni4126 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Whenever I play SF4 with the M11x is plugged in, it plays beautifully, but when I don't have it plugged in, it lags like it has antialiasing turned on to OVER 9000!!!!!

    Any ideas or fixes?
     
    Soni4126, Feb 16, 2011
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    smash it over your knee
     
    trikan, Feb 16, 2011
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    Xsonic Notebook Consultant

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    When it's plugged in HDMI, it always uses NVIDIA GPU. You just don't have the game whitelisted in Optimus.
     
    Xsonic, Feb 17, 2011
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    Make sure the power settings are set to 'performance' when it's unplugged. Also make sure the GPU isn't set to run in some sort of 'balanced' mode when unplugged.
     
    bchreng, Feb 17, 2011
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    Yep, I made sure that it wasn't set to balanced, but it still does the same thing even on high performance. It only seems to lag like this on SF4, but every other game plays absolutely wonderful. I guess I'll just try and fiddle with the game a bit more.
     
    Soni4126, Feb 17, 2011
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    I think I'll pass :)

    I found out why it was lagging though.
     
    Soni4126, Feb 17, 2011
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