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    Holy mother of God lag.

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Rosefox911, Oct 31, 2009.

  1. Rosefox911

    Rosefox911 Notebook Consultant

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    Alright, I just got my new M17X like 1~2 weeks ago and I've been having this problem with it recently ( I don't think I had it when I was on vista though ) [ I'm on Windows 7 now ] anyways. It will run fine ( not playing games, I'm just doing stuff like photoshop/msn/firefox etc simple tasks ) then suddenly it will start to lag like CRAZY. But when I reboot, the lag is fixed. What do you thing this could be? I mean it's hella annoying to have to stop your work midway because of this...
     
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    Check programs running in the background while it happens.
     
    Mandrake, Oct 31, 2009
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    It's most likely the Alienware Fusion Service (it's a known issue between that and Windows 7).

    Go into Services (Run > Services.msc) and disable it. Double-check that it is Alienware Fusion Service that is the problem though. Go into Task Manager > Performance > Resource Monitor and check your Memory tab to see what's eating your RAM.

    I had a similar issue with Fusion, and disabling it fixed the problem right away.
     
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    Yeah, I am sure you are right. I did check out what was hogging all my Physical Ram and at the top of the list was the Alienware Fusion Service. My question is, if I disable it will I be able to change the color of my keyboard and whatnot?
     
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    fushion is the facial rec stuff not the afx so ofcourse you will be able to, i have everything disabled including the fx i just turn the fx on when i feel like changing the colors.
     
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    Yes. Fusion doesn't change your keyboard colors, that's AlienwareFX. Ultimately, I found it all to just be horrible, laggy, poorly written software. I ended up disabling everything, and I only open FX when I feel like changing my colors.
     
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    Just to clarify, AlienFusion is part of the CommandCenter interface to change your OS PowerProfile settings (it is a resource hog which is more than enough reason to disable it). Just use the OS interface to change PowerProfile settings.

    FastAccess is the AlienSense component (facial recognition).
     
    BatBoy, Nov 1, 2009
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    Hi, I just checked and it was using over 60% of my Physical Memory ( holy cow ) so I stopped the process, is there a way to disable it permanently or at least till Alienware fixes this?
     
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    Services.msc
     
    Ribz, Nov 1, 2009
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