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    am i doing something wrong

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by BrianDigital, Mar 21, 2009.

  1. BrianDigital

    BrianDigital Notebook Geek

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    i got dual 2.5 ghz and 9800 ft nividia in my laptop with 4 gigs of ram running vista 64. So I went ahead and bought the orange box and with this setup on high settings I get like 15-30 fps wft
     
    BrianDigital, Mar 21, 2009
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    NapalmSilyPuddy Notebook Consultant

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    Are your drivers up to date? because I have the exact same setup and mine works just fine
     
    NapalmSilyPuddy, Mar 21, 2009
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  3. BrianDigital

    BrianDigital Notebook Geek

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    i believe so the only thing i can not update is my processor ( can't get into my hive) also is my montier has a certain driver, because when in device manager it just says generic
     
    BrianDigital, Mar 21, 2009
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    ryujin 2B or not 2B

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    sleep mode off?
    why cant you get into myhive?
    why dont you go to laptopvideotogo for gpu drivers and why not go to intel site for proc updates then?
     
    ryujin, Mar 21, 2009
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    HaloGod2007 Notebook Virtuoso

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    you dont need proc drivers
     
    HaloGod2007, Mar 21, 2009
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    What games are you playing with the orange box?
     
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    probably mostly team fortress 2. BUt got the whole package incase their new things for portal and more content for half life 2
     
    BrianDigital, Mar 22, 2009
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    i almost forgot, yeah so I think it was an issue coming out off sleep i think I restarted and it worked fine. Also I went and got a modded driver from laptopvideo2go and resulted a lower 3dmark but beter preformance in-game
     
    BrianDigital, Mar 22, 2009
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