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Any tips for the M15x's laggy/jumpy touchpad?

Discussion in 'Alienware' started by JWest, Apr 28, 2010.

JWest Master of Notebookery

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I knew when I bought my M15x that it had some touchpad problems, so I still love my machine Still, does anyone have any tips to make it smoother? I tried installing different drivers, and letting windows install the default drivers, but then I didn't have the ability to adjust the sensitivity, and the Alienware command center would occasionally crash.

So far, all I've done is install Synaptics' Scribe for multitouch gestures and two finger scrolling support, and it works with Alienware's command center, but the touchpad is still laggy. Any suggestions?

JWest, Apr 28, 2010

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Villosa Notebook Deity

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The best driver for the touchpad is the one windows installs for you. Unfortunately it's just going to be laggy forever till Dell fixes it.

Villosa, Apr 28, 2010

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Or find a way to increase the PS/2 Polling rate.

denogun, Apr 28, 2010

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Yeah, I've got a suggestion.

Use a mouse.

If not, then I'm not really sure. Try out different drivers, like the basic Windows driver and other mousepad drivers.

EviLCorsaiR, Apr 28, 2010

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