reloaded mx11r2 can't start games

I slapped in a SSD drive and reloaded windows, then installed all the drivers and software from Dell. I have added the wow launcher to my white list and it will not start up wow. It tells me that it is unable to start up 3D acceleration and to verify that DirectX 9.0c is installed. I have directX 11 and the latest nvidia drivers. can anyone help me get this working? Thanks

 

Check the DirectX install?

DirectX

 

Well, for some reason it only gives that problem if I have 2 displays enabled. I have it plugged into a monitor. When I disable the laptop display I'm able to start the game up just fine. Any way to be able to have both the monitor and the laptop display. I was looking forward to a bit of extra space.

 

Are you setting your external monitor to be the primary display?

 

Yes, the monitor is my primary.

 

Also, I'm running world of warcraft. I'm sitting at medium settings and only 30fps. I would think this thing could way out do that. Are there tweaks I need to make to increase my performance. I'm quite disappointed with this.

 

You have to realize that mmorpgs are a different breed of games. There my favorite personally and I play them all from time to time and there are alot of them of course but heh, you could give a different free mmo a go to compare with wow for now like DDO(Dungeons and Dragons online) or LOTRO(Lord of The Rings Online). You have to settle with tweaking it insead of having all the power right at your disposal when geting a game like wow to work well for you especially on the m11x. You cant expect to raid in the large 40v40 battlegrounds and expect to have the performance that your looking for. Theres parts of wow you will be able to play fine with, and other parts not so well. You have to find a different play style. Remember wow is eccentric to the m11xs processor. Wow is a processor hungry game.

things you can attempt:
gamebooster(software on the net that shuts down processes and flushes ram before gaming)
resolution(change it to a lower setting along with other settings)
fresh install of win 7 along with different driver configurations
overclocking gpu/cpu
most importandly patience, If I can get Aion to run on an area51 776 made in 2004 with solid 60 FPS you can do anything I would hope.

 

WOW isn't exactly a taxing game to play compared to some. I have a 4 year old desktop with an athlon cpu and 7900gt that runs as well or better then what I'm seeing off a "gaming" laptop I am on a completely fresh install of win 7 with all my drivers loaded I hope properly.

How do I verify that the system is using the nvidia card when I start up a game?

 

as posted in the wow thread, I know it's a big thread so it could be easily overlooked, but wow mainly runs off of raw GHz rather than tech because it only utilizes 2 cores. It was originally designed for 1 but a patch tried to make it utilize 2 so it's not really truly designed for it.

That's why you might see a high MHz PC run it better when it has older tech

Since the M11x is theoretically 4 cores but runs low, wow isn't getting as much as it needs

 

ok, I slapped the disk it came with, completely stock. Nothing changed. Exactly as it came. I tried to load the WOW client and it tells me that my computer fails to meet the miminum system requirments due to insufficent CPU Speed. . There has to be a problem with this.