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    Huge flash lag

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Napbree, Oct 25, 2009.

  1. Napbree

    Napbree Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey,

    Question, when I am run full screen flash like youtube or games it will lag out horrendously, like half the normal running speed for videos so it's really sloooooow. I have 1920x1200 res and 2.5ghz cpu, it should NOT lag out. Why does it, how do I fix it, did a quick google but none of the solutions did it. Also it does it in IE, FF and chrome.

    Thanks
     
    Napbree, Oct 25, 2009
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  2. BaronGalf

    BaronGalf Notebook Consultant

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    Try to uninstall and reinstall your network adapter. Problem seem to come from your internet connection
     
    BaronGalf, Oct 26, 2009
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  3. lxrgg

    lxrgg Newbie

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    Try some local videos, if it still lag then that's not the connection's problem, it could be the video card driver's problem, install the latest video card driver, if that still can't fix, that might be your video card's problem, replace it try again...
     
    lxrgg, Oct 26, 2009
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  4. Trelawney

    Trelawney Notebook Guru

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    You're almost certainly running on the 9400 instead of 260M/280Ms. Turn Stealth Mode off (Tachometer button above the Numeric Keypad, and reboot.
    Another possibility if you accidentally restarted your M17x without Power turned on (easily done) it will disable Discrete Graphics (see BIOS Graphics Options, re-enable Hybrid Mode and reboot).

    Cheers

    Trelawney
     
    Trelawney, Oct 26, 2009
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  5. Thatoe

    Thatoe Notebook Evangelist

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    I thought it's m15x that he has????

    Still, the same thing happens to me with flash like youtube and facebook games. Sometimes Firefox just freezes or crashes.
     
    Thatoe, Oct 26, 2009
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    Miskid Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have the same problem. But in my case is not Firefox, it's Opera.
    But the rest the same.
     
    Miskid, Oct 28, 2009
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