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    Wich drivers must be updated after a Windows 7 upgrade?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by JamesSunderland, Nov 16, 2009.

  1. JamesSunderland

    JamesSunderland Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guys!

    I have upgraded my vista 64 to windows 7. I did a vista 64 with all drivers ugrade to windows 7 and I'm just woundering wich drivers (chipset, grafikcard) should I download from the dell windows 7 driver site? I have yesterday installed Bioshock on my Alienware m17x and everything was fine for about 1 hour after one hour the game starts to get laggy and after few minutes the games become tottaly laggy and crashed. I think the problem is that I use the drivers (grafikcard ect.) still from the vista 64, can someone confirm if this is the problem? And if yes which important drivers should I download from the dell windows 7 driver download? Yeah and I forgot I got few time a really high usage of CPU and RAM, I got a a singel quadro cpu, and 4 gig RAM, the usage is about 80-90% I dont think this is normal.

    I hope you can help me guys!

    Thanks for your help in advance!
     
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    Hi thanks a lot for your respond, you think i have to install all the drivers again, for the windows 7?

    Thanks a lot!
     
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    Hi

    Thanks a lot for your help again, but I think I try to download frol dell the windows 7 grafikcard and chipset driver and deinstall my old one, if this not working I'm gonna stay on vista 64, for me is this a bit too much work, and windows 7 occurs to me too much troble.

    I really thank you again my friend!