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    Aero performance dropped!

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by nikola1970, Dec 1, 2011.

  1. nikola1970

    nikola1970 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all,

    Today i noticed annoying problem, my score in Desktop performance for windows Aero in WEI droped from 6.7(or higher, i cant remember) to 4.8??? nvidia 255.62 drivers

    L502x i7 6gb ram 750gb hdd

    anyone with solution??? what is the "problem" ??

    Cheers
     
    nikola1970, Dec 1, 2011
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  2. Fenikkusu

    Fenikkusu Notebook Evangelist

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    There probably is no problem, WEI score is not very useful and will change a few times even if you run it back to back. If you're not noticing an issue there probably isn't one.
     
    Fenikkusu, Dec 1, 2011
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    mikeybc Notebook Consultant

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    i think somehow your aero was running on the intel graphics, should be 6.6 for aero and 6.7 for gaming. 4.8 is a huge drop.
     
    mikeybc, Dec 3, 2011
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    tonyr6 Notebook Consultant

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    Mine did the same thing when I updated the Nvidia 258.62 drivers. WEI is a joke anyway. It is a terrible inacurrate benchmark that gives you a score based on your lowest score instead of averaging out all of your scores. I don't worry about WEI anymore.
     
    tonyr6, Dec 5, 2011
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