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    absolutely nothing playing on 335m gt - m11x r2

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by djjosherie, Apr 18, 2011.

  1. djjosherie

    djjosherie Notebook Consultant

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    It's broke! lol

    My internet connection has been getting slower and slower, so 2 days ago while playing I realized my m11x was causing the networking ping up to 400ms, I ran a few tools including my favorite combofix, and sure enough, a rootkit was to blame. Now internet is super fast and I'm happy again (I pay for 25m down and 5m up)... BUT...

    Nothing will work with my nVidia card, EVERYTHING is playing on Intel HD. I've reloaded both Intel and nVidia graphics drivers, to several versions too... Now I'm downloading Driver Sweeper and am going to try to do this, but I'm obviously getting aggravated... Anyone else for suggestion?

    Reloading is not gonna happen, I have WAY too much data on this drive at the moment and a lot of website specific files and video editing projects I can't headache with on a different system.

    I have tried several driver versions, and several programs. IE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, League Of Legends, Windows Chess, Sims 3, Skype, World Of Warcraft, and My DJ software all shows up as "NVIDIA GPU Activity: None" on the nvidia taskbar icon and are giving awful frame rates. I have white listed everything and even tried setting nVidia settings to completely automatic, nothing is working.

    Thanks for any help in advance!
     
    djjosherie, Apr 18, 2011
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  2. roxxor

    roxxor Notebook Evangelist

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    Have you actually manually whitelisted the programs you want to use the 335 with?
     
    roxxor, Apr 18, 2011
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    kfruit Notebook Consultant

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    Have you tried using the "Run with graphics processor" option when you right click a program? You have to enable it by going to the Nvidia Control Panel then the "Desktop" tab at the top left, there is an option to check it there.
     
    kfruit, Apr 18, 2011
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  4. djjosherie

    djjosherie Notebook Consultant

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    Yes, nothing still.
     
    djjosherie, Apr 18, 2011
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    Lysdexia Newbie

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    Sounds like a driver issue, had the same issue, Driver Sweeper plus current drivers fixed it up for me. When you reloaded the drivers, if you didn't do the "custom" install with the overwrite option, you would still be getting the same problem, if it is indeed a driver thing.
     
    Lysdexia, Apr 18, 2011
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  6. ajslay

    ajslay Overclocker, PC Builder

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    actualy, this sounds to me like its hardware related by everything that you stated. do you have an extra drive to install windows on and test to see if this problem still occurs?
     
    ajslay, Apr 18, 2011
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  7. djjosherie

    djjosherie Notebook Consultant

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    Have tried uninstalling and reinstalling every driver in every day and every version... no success



    I do have a 500gb drive that is currently not used, I'm going to try this.
     
    djjosherie, Apr 18, 2011
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    varsfx Notebook Enthusiast

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    I might have something in common here, problem is that my GT 335 is running slow for some reason, I get 400ish 3D Mark Test with that PassMark software but their web suggests 600ish ... why? besides, I get lower FPS in games, for example in StarCraft II, it used to be 160-180 with low settings or so, but now it's 100 and below and in the battles, it starts to slideshow. Temperatures seem to be normal :/ about 80ish CPU and 60+ GPU
     
    varsfx, Apr 18, 2011
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