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    SLI Profile & Audio Issue

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by whitelight01, Nov 28, 2009.

  1. whitelight01

    whitelight01 Notebook Geek

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    Figured I'd knock two birds with one stone here....

    How do I create an SLI profile to run Crysis on. Just noticed on my HWMonitor that only was GPU is being utilized.

    With that being asked, has anybody had any sound issues? During my 1 hr play, I noticed a few times of the sound coming as distorted & jumpy....not the gameplay, just the sound. Thought at first it may be my Nvidia drivers but I'm not sure....I'm on 186.64 right now. Latency is staying decent...only a few random hits into the red. Believe that is due to to my antivir agent always running :) Avg highest peak is about 1500 & lower.

    Any help is much appreciated...

    Hope everyone had a safe & great Turkey Day also!!
     
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    MaoMau Notebook Consultant

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    whitelight01 Notebook Geek

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    Thanks, I'll try this out. Is my driver the correct one that everyone else is using. I know I've saw on here that the newest released were not the best.
     
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    It was a test lol. VERY long story short: A friend had the same issue thought he had a realtek in his Alienware. So installed it, and fixed the audio issue. So i decided what the heck, and it fixed mine to??!! Wired..

    Thanks for telling me about the IDT my friend told me wrong info then. :rolleyes: Should i deinstall it even though its fixed?
     
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    Yeah you're using the right 1... I'am using it right now too.. =) But u can always try the newer driver (beta)... ;)
     
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    If everything is working for you - leave it alone. I just didn't understand how it could possibly help since the driver should fail as there is no associated device. Now, if this was a player app from Realtek - thats a different scenario. In any case, leave it alone if you are satisfied with your system's performance. ;)
     
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    I don't understand either, how or even why it fixed it. I am very happy though :D
     
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    I've heard of other systems with different onboard sound chips (usually Desktops, though) using Realtek drivers to solve problems. I don't know how it could work, but apparently it does in some cases. It's puzzling.