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    174.51 drivers

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by flipfire, Mar 21, 2008.

  1. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    I was playing battlefield 2 today and i had to ALT+TAB to a chat window. I noticed that AERO was disabled. When i closed BF2, Aero automatically enables again. Which makes me think these drivers disable AERO temporarily while gaming to improve performance. Good stuff hey

    Anyone else notice this with this or other drivers?

    So far these drivers havent crashed on me and very stable. I will recommend it to any 8400m GS users
     
    flipfire, Mar 21, 2008
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    thomaskc.dk Notebook Deity

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    It has always been like that with aero :) You can see it glimt quickly when you start an 3d application, to disable it.
     
    thomaskc.dk, Mar 21, 2008
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    Never noticed aero being disabled with previous drivers, and i ALT+Tab quite alot..
     
    flipfire, Mar 21, 2008
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    StormEffect Lazer. *pew pew*

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    It always does this when I start my TV Tuner, but I haven't noticed it happen while I play games.
     
    StormEffect, Mar 21, 2008
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    I think this is how i got extra performance on the stress test, by automatically and temporarly disabling aero (which hogs resource)
     
    flipfire, Mar 21, 2008
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