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    smoke in games slowing fps to a crawl. M17x

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by ttnuagmada, Apr 17, 2010.

  1. ttnuagmada

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    I have a t9600 and 4870's. For the most part i never experience problems, but occasionally in games, if there is a lot of smoke on screen the framerate slows to a crawl, im talking less than 10 fps. It has done it in MW2 and BFBC2, Borderlands as well as Just Cause 2, (these are the only games ive really played much since i got it). I have the A03 bios, and i have everything on defaults in the control panel.

    I'm running the 10.3 drivers, haven't tried any others yet. Has anyone else experienced this issue?
     
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    I am having the same problem. Where did you get the 10.3 driver?
     
    WozniakMac, Apr 17, 2010
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    I have experienced this also, and just recently with mirrors edge and with phyxs off which I'm thinking was the culprit since I'm running nvidia gpus i have the option of turning it on or off but even when it is on oh my god its annoying when smoke hits the screen...frame drop :(.
     
    CUELLARM, Apr 18, 2010
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    I got them from the ATI website. With version 10.3 they now officially support their mobility GPU's. You dont have to mod the drivers anymore.
     
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    ttt

    anybody?
     
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    Everytime I try to install those the driver isn't available any idea why?

    I am running driver version 8.632.1.2000 and i don't have that problem
     
    Mechanized Menace, Apr 19, 2010
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    ttnuagmada, Apr 19, 2010
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