Razer Blade Owner's Lounge

I have a Question Regarding the Default programs that you can run on the SBUI, is there a way of changing these around at all?
Because I would really like to use skype instead of twitter.

 

They're both DX11 capable, so if we eve get like, DX13 or something, R1 or R2 you're boned either way probably, so if you don't want to speed the extra 1000 for the extra umph, then don't. If anything, you're going to have a slight advantage on an R2 in some games because of your i7 being dual core, which gives it a higher base clock on the cores than the R2's, so any game (Like WoW) that does 99% of the work on the first core, then you won't even see a difference going from dual core i7 to quad core i7...So no probs there. Even then, most games don't use more than 2 cores, so you're still save even outside of WoW...the quad core would only serve to future proof at the moment until game developers start coding for 4 cores...

Windows 8 is awesome imo. It takes getting use to, but I think it's better than 7. There are some cons of course, but overall, I think it's better. I guess I just like metro a lot...And if your only desire is 720p gaming, then brother, you'll have 0 issues with any game and should thoroughly enjoy your R2 Have fun!

Don't think, just do! lol

 

No sir, the "home page" of apps are all static/unchangeable. The Track pad app (If you have a picture of it, it's the upper most left app, track pad icon) are where you can manually make your own profile.

So, you can just make your own profile, and then put skype on the track pad app for 1 of the 10 buttons. Now, there is not a way to make the other 9 the default SBUI apps. You can however make the other 9 buttons programs to be launched like skype, and then just hit the razer home button to switch back to the default ones.

Such a shame, there's so much potential for the SBUI and razer hasn't even tapped a fraction of it yet...

 

tweaktown interview with Razer Supreme-Potentate Min-Liang Tan, he says the Razer Edge should be shipping in the US in the next couple of weeks (yay). Meanwhile I'm picking up a Surface Pro at Best But next week to play with for a few days to tide me over (thanks for your 30 day return policy BB).

 

This has been happening to me for a while but thought I might finally ask. Every time I start my R2 I get a dialog box which says "Unable to cast object of type 'System.Boolean' to type 'System.String'." Is this an issue with the blade, or is it just something to do with something I have installed?

 

I bought it directly on the Razer webstore. I will test it and try to push it. I have to get ready for Starcraft II Heart of the Swarm. And I want to play it even in an airport...

 

I haven't seen this message, and I had both the WIn 7 and Win 8 versions.
I did have to change two Razer's, before I got one working in great conditions (the first one would not boot up, and the recovery programs would not work - this was software related.) In the second Razer, the keyboard stopped working when I upgraded to Windows 8, following the instructions in Razer's website (which forgot to mention that you need to uninstall dataplex.).
I have now one that came with Windows 8, that is working great (better than expected), and I did the upgrade to Windows 8 Pro. I don't get any problems with this machine, except with the installation of some legacy programs (most have been compatible.)

 

Probably something you've installed thats trying to start at start up. If your'e on Windows 8 use the new Ctrl+Alt+Del and go to the start up tab to turn off programs you don't recognize that are being started under the user, not the system, becareful though to not stop something from starting that isn't important. It's usually pretty simple to spot those files, but tread lightly

If you're still on 7, jsut open a cmd, type in 'msconfig' and hit enter, new window will come up, there will be a start up tab, then do the same as above


Of course I'm just assuming this since this is the first time someones reported trouble like that and I haven't seen anything like that myself...Good luck!

 

Bought what? Your Blade? I've pushed this thing all the way up to a 1170/3000 clock -- Maybe you'll be able to go higher!

 

I can un Starcraft 2 on Ultra, everything maxed out with a couple hundred units on screen with no lag whatsoever.

 

Sorry it took me so long, but I finally took some pics and extracted the WIM file that's on the Razer R2 recovery USB drive. Here are some pics.

It's a 16Gb USB drive with Razer's proprietary bootup software on it. It doesn't give you any option to install to a different drive. It defaults to the 500Gb HDD that comes standard when you buy the Razer Blade. (I learned this the hard way, all my data on that drive was gone lol)

In any case, I was able to extract the image and I'm going through it now. I have the OEM logos and startup sounds so far. Still looking for the login screen wallpaper.

Back:


Front:


System Properties:

 

Sorry, but I think I missed something along the way - is this an official recovery stick from Razer? If so, where did you get it because my Blade did not come with either a recovery cd or a stick.

Also, I'm still having really bad (weak) wifi connections compared to my other laptops or even iPad. I've installed the latest drivers but no luck. I spoke with support about this and he said I need to tweak settings on some routers. Well, this is kind of stupid because I don't have access to hotel, Starbucks or other hotspot routers. Anyone else have connection issues?

Thanks.

 

Cyanide can you host the files that you have for the OEM logo's and the blade soundfile please?

 

You have to request the USB stick from razer support to get one.

As for the Wifi issues, known problem with the laptop. I finally had issues with mine while at a friends house, laptop can barely get 3 megs on a speed test, everyone elses Asus laptops were getting 25+ when they did theirs. It's not a router issue, this is definitely something to do with the laptop hardware or the driver for the Wifi.

If I'm in my gaming room (I'm in an apartment mind you, so the distance is small) I get upwards of 25 megs on a speedtest. If I go to the living room, which is parallel to the game room, they both share a wall and the router is EXACTLY on one side, and I'm EXACTLY on the other side, I only get 8. I just tested it, 8 in the living room, 25 in the game room, back out to the living room, 8 again. Start test at the door to my place, struggles to get 6, as I walk closer to the game room while the test is still running, the data speed goes up.

Something fishy here. Sent Razer support an email, hopefully I'll hear back from them with good news...Here I was thinking my laptop was bullet proof when it came to the wifi problem...

Update: Guys, if you're having Wifi issues go here

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect/wireless

It should detect a 15.5.6 version, that got me from getting 8 mbps in my living room to 21, still not the 28 I get in my gaming room, but it's a start.

 

Official recovery stick from Razer, yes. Call them up, ask them for it.

I've never had any weak/bad WiFi connections. Sounds like you might have a bad card, wires loose or something. 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz band?

I get the max 50/20mbit speed from Verizon FiOS that I'm paying for.

 

Yup, soon as I find some place lol, I will.

 

Regardless of distance from the router?

 

There's a wall seperating the router from the laptop. And my desk is on the far corner of the room, still get full speeds. What router do you have? I have the Netgear N900, it's one of the more powerful routers out there.

 

Netgear N300. It can't be my router though, I've got 5 bars anywhere I am in my house =/

 

Btw, in the Properties tab of your wireless adapter, in Device Manager, go to Advanced and set your transmit power to Lowest and see if that helps. I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but try it.

 

Changing from 5 to 1 and back to 5 again without any rebooting, the speedtests provided the same speeds...

 

If you do a speed test from another wireless device, do you get your max speed?

Also are you connected using the 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz band?

 

Got about 4 Megs faster on my cell phone. And that I don't know, I can't remember my routerrs UID and PW at the moment...Whoops >_>

 

Try these drivers: http://www.razersupport.com/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=downloadfile&downloaditemid=1091

Uninstall your current drivers, then go into Device Manager, right-click on your network adapter, choose Uninstall and make sure "Delete all device drivers" is checked. Finish uninstalling, reboot and install the drivers in that link I gave you.

 

I was using the razer support site drivers, using the ones off intel has actually fixed the problem I think thought because as soon as I switched I instantly started getting 21Mpbs from the 8Mbps I was getting previously using the ones off the Razer site. Normally you'd think its my ISP just being bogged down but I'm in a rare area where I don't experience that even at peak timmes.... I'm actually getting 31Mbps speeds now in the living room after resetting my router UID/PW and tooling around with it. Set the channel for my router to 11 which was the default for the Laptop, that seems to have fixed it between that and the new Intel drivers.

STILL though, the I suppose razer was right, if you have wireless issues its your router, but at the same time I think it's a little ridiculous, just as someone previously said in the thread, how often are we going to have access to star bucks, airport, work, etc routers?

 

The drivers I posted are the ones they have listed for Windows 7 and are slightly older. They're the ones I'm currently on. Do me a favor and give those a try.

Just because the drivers are newer doesn't mean that they're better.

If your router has a 5Ghz band, I recommend using that instead. The 2.4Ghz band is quite congested, very unreliable and inconsistent, which sounds like what you're experiencing.

Also make sure WMM is enabled in your router to enable channel bonding. You should be getting a 300mbps connect speed at least. Sounds like WMM/channel bonding isn't enabled in your router.

Oh and changing the channel on your laptop is just for AdHoc networks (laptop to laptop, no router) that has nothing to do with your router's channel.

 

I've tried to uninstall, delete all device drivers, restart, every time windows boots up the device is still there and even when I try to run the older drivers it just errors out and tells me I have something more up to date.

I understand that older drivers are sometimes better than newer drivers, but I'm getting the full speed from my ISP now, so I'm assuming the new ones from Intel will work just fine.

Router doesn't have a 5Ghz band, I have an older N300 that wasn't dual band

And channel might have something to do with maybe my friends house, he told me he has his network setup as an adhoc, but since the card is defaulted to 11 anyway and thats what he runs on I'm guessing I was A-Okay that night anyway.

 

His house might be setup as AdHoc, but if you're using a router, you definitely aren't on an AdHoc network.

Try installing it without rebooting after you uninstall the old software.

Make sure you have WMM enabled in your router.

 

I got them uninstalled by just running the install and using the uninstall option, used the ones you posted, same data speeds so far. And I'm looking all over my router settings page, I'm not seeing an option to turn on WMM

 

Under Advanced > QoS setup?

Oh and when you install the drivers, make sure you install the drivers ONLY, no software, nothing. Just plain drivers.

 

Ah, didn't catch it on QoS, yes sir, and it is enabled!

Didn't install anything else but the drivers

 

Sounds like it could be your router then. I recommend getting one w/5Ghz capability.

 

With the blade being the only device I've ever had these issues, and after using the new Intel drivers and getting the right speeds now.I'm more inclined to believe its more so the blade whether is be the wireless card or the drivers razer provides...

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Well unless you've had a super sensitive wireless card besides the Razer Blade before, such as another gaming laptop etc, these problems would be very hard to pick up with your everyday wireless device.

I had an Alienware M17x with a Killer Gaming wireless card in it and that card had so many problems I decided to switch it out for an Intel 6300 card and all my problems went away. So I'm pretty familiar with wireless cards and routers. I bought the $200 Netgear N900 to make sure I wouldn't have a problem, but it turned out to be the card itself.

And especially since you're on the 2.4Ghz band, it's such a crowded spectrum, a laptop like the Razer Blade with it's wireless card will be very susceptible to fluctuations in that band. Any other wireless device, phones, tablets, even other regular laptops that are just used for everyday mundane tasks would be fine with it.

Also like I've said, I've had zero problems with the Razer Blade and it's wireless card.

 

Need help with Windows 8 Pro!

Has anyone done the upgrade? I am running Windows 8 Pro, and have problems running the windows updates.
All is well, until I get to the KB2770917 and KB2779768 packages. I had tried to install this manually. The package itself has several components. I was able to install all components for KB2770917, except the sub-file KB2771744.
I read some documentation mentioning that some computers may experience problems with this patch, related to the licensing. Anyways, I installed what is supposed to be a patch for the 'patch' and it sitll doesn't work.

Can anyone confirm if you have been able to install all the updates under Windows 8 Pro, or whether you are facing similar difficulties? This maybe Razer not being up to speed?
I have done a clean install twice.

How you done the updates before installing Synapse?

My laptop seems to be working fine, but I don't want to be blocked from installing further updates.

Thanks.

 

Well, my previous Rig is a G73, with a 6200 in it, and my wife has a $500 Asus laptop, and I've never had these issues with either of those, nor the 3 other laptops and 2 other desktops my friends have brought over to use in the dining area...And my other friend I talked about has an E1000, Alienware M14x and 3 different Asus laptops had 0 issues with it. That's why I'm saying it's the blade itself wether it be drivers or the card in it. Something is bunk, and it needs to be addressed by Razer. Looks like a simple driver update is all mine needed, but Razer needs to put it's newer drivers up or something. Telling us it's our routers isn't really an acceptable answer.

2.4Ghz being crowded is true, but that would only really make a difference if I lived in a crowded area with wireless networks, wireless phones, etc all working on the same band...Which could be, which in case like you said, the Blade with its wireless card will be very susceptible to fluctuations, that just tells me they put subpar wireless card in the machine, people with laptops that cost half as much as mine were doing better at my own house (m14x), and of course the Asus ones weren't having problems..

At the end of the day my gripe is they needed to either put a better wireless card in the laptop, especially for the price tag thats associated with it, or provide better support to people other than "Its your router, you need to fix your shize ". Because that ISN'T the problem in my house, or my friends house.

Glad you're had zero isses. Hopefully now that I'm rocking these new drivers I'll continue to have no issues either..

 

I've got Windows 8 Pro as well, haven't had any issues with Windows 8 updates at all, it's set on auto and every now and again I catch it installing updates when starting/shutting down and haven't had a single error yet, this is not on a fresh 8 install though, I upgraded from 7 to 8 to 8 pro.

 

I've been reading through some of this forum and it got me wondering about the video drivers for the V2 razer blade. Can you update from the nvidia website or do you need to use the old ones listed on the razer site? I am going to purchase one tonight and wanted to start collecting data on updates, so I can rock it out when I open the box.

 

I use the ones from nvidia myself. No issues with them yet

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Thanks for the info, I was worried since it has the secondary screen (touchpad) wasn't sure if there was sime craziness built into the driver. I should be putting my order in tonight!

 

you originally had to use the stock drivers from the razer website for the blade r1, but they quickly fixed that so you can use any of the nvidia drivers (including the beta ones).

 

Since you've gone through all that trouble, chances are it might be your wireless card or the antenna. When you opened up the laptop, did you double check the wireless card? Should be an easy check, I'd take it out, clean the contacts a little and put it back in. Make sure the leads for the antennas are clicked all the way down too.

The wireless card they have in this laptop is fine. It's definitely NOT subpar. I wouldn't want any other one in this laptop.

The Killer Gaming Wireless-N 1103 card I paid $50 extra for in my M17x had nothing but problems. I actually swapped that one out for an Intel Advanced-N 6300 that was HALF the price (which is the card right above the one that comes standard with the Razer Blade) and all my problems went away. I'm just glad to have one that works right now.

And the drivers are handled by Intel, not Razer. Besides checking your router, there's not much support they can give honestly. Also don't forget you're on Windows 8 as well. I'm on Windows 7. The drivers for Windows 8 might still not be as mature/developed as the Windows 7 ones.

Have you been on a 5Ghz network at all? Maybe go over to a friends place that has a 5Ghz network and see if the same problems occur.

And if you're still having problems, like I said, the Intel Ultimate-N 6300 card is only $34.99 here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106062

Might be worth something to think about. I know you shouldn't need to fix Razer's or Intel's problems, but it's a pretty cheap solution and hey, you already opened up your laptop, so why not? The wireless card is probably the easiest thing to access too as well.

 

Well, I know that its not razers fault. The point was they should actually provide some type it support rather than just auto replying that its on our end. Even if it was the routers fault atleast try something first...and they should probably update their drivers on their website or atleaat have the option for newer ones up for those consumers that don't know they can go outside razer for different drivers.


And true, windows 8 drivers might not be as mature. I didn't even think about that, I figured their drivers were more one size fits all and as long as I had a 64 bit windows driver it would work fine regardless of my OS.
Haven't actually opened it up yet but I will soon. Suppose I could buy a 6300 and install it along with the new SSD ill have soon.

Thanks for the replies cyanide. I'm going to said friends house tonight I believe his is on the 5ghz band so we will see!

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No problem, wireless is such a finicky thing that there's so many variables to it, it's quite hard to troubleshoot.

On the plus side, my FiOS got upgraded today:


That's through one wall from the router, on the far corner, on a wireless 5Ghz connection on my Razer Blade w/transmit power on the lowest setting.

 

So jelly! Wish I had fios in my area. So sad att didn't try to compete at that level with them. I can get a 110mb down with my ISP but the up is like 5 lol

Wireless is very finicky, we will find out soon tonight how it'll work. There's going to be a lot of us so ill have to figure out how many are on it to know what speed I should he getting since the router is set to divy up the speed evenly.

Another provider here does fiber but they don't offer crazy high bandwidhts, 15 is what they cap out at

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UPDATE:
I will answer to myself, because this can be helpful to someone that follows me.
As noted elsewhere, I have swapped my hard drive for an SSD drive. The new drive installed well (Samsung 840 Pro), but the headache came when I had to re-install the OS. I wasn't able to clone my HDD, so I had to do a 'New' install . For this I used the media file for Windows 8 Pro, that I created when I did the upgrade from Win 7 to Win 8 Pro. This was not a good idea, because I had replaced my laptop, and I had Win 8 instead.
I had all sort of problems with the installation, and then updating windows, especially with some patches. After applying some online recipes, I posted a log of my activities, and got some help from a Danish blogger in the Microsoft community.
To make the story short, if you do a clean install, you may have to do a couple of 'refresh' from Windows (go to General settings, and do a 'Refresh', to make sure you got all your files installed properly (I missed a few, and they were reinstalled correctly later.) Strangely enough, reinstalling windows always caused the same problem, perhaps because the media file is not complete.
In my case, the order you do the installation is important. I had to do the 'refresh', and then run windows update BEFORE I installed all the drivers from the Razer website. When I installed the drivers first, something always failed. This may not happen all the time, but that's what happened to me.
DO NOT INSTALL THE RAZER FIRMWARE FOR YOUR KEYBOARD IF YOUR KEYBOARD IS WORKING! Just installing Synapse will get rid of any driver's problem with the keyboard (you may erase the bootloader -I don't recall the exact name),

After doing the Windows refresh, doing all the windows updates, and then, installing the drivers from Razer, things are finally working fine. I had to install the nVidia drivers a few times, directly from the website (the files that I have downloaded, and that worked earlier, did not work when I tried using them again. I got problems with windows recognizing the digital signature.)
All my devices are working properly now (before doing the 'refresh', and 'windows updates', one of the HD audio devices would not work properly.)
Installing Razer's drivers last got rid of any remaining problems.

For some people, upgrading hardware may be easy, but you need to be prepared to do other things if something goes wrong. At CNET, they show swapping a hard drive as the easiest thing to do. Sure, replacing the hard ware is easy (if you have the correct tools), but getting all the software to work properly again may take days, and you may be questioning yourself all the time.
Overall, I am very happy now.

WARNING: Be careful when you type razerzone.com . You don't want to forget any of the letters, or you will end up at a site filled with malware!!

 

Quick question...

I saw a guide here to upgrade the mssd card. Is the OS installed on the mSSD card? I ask because I have an SSD I want to install on it...(I bought the computer but Razer is taking its time to ship it )
Installing the SSD is probably going to make the mSSD card kind of pointless.

 

The OS is installed in the Hard Drive. The small mSSD is used as a cache with Dataplex. You will need to uninstall Dataplex, and swap the HDD for the SSD (you can't replace the mSSD with a regular SSD.)
Beware you will need a USB stick, or DVD (together with dvd external player) with the OS. You can ask Razer to send you the medial file. You will have to fill in a form once you get your New Blade, and then wait for a week or so.
A separate thread on how to install a mSSD drive should still be useful for you. Read about the screwdrivers you need, and be prepared to spend some time setting this up. Swapping the hard ware is easy, but what comes next is not (at least in my experience .)

 

You can't replace the mSSD with a regular SSD but you can replace it with another mSSD just to clarify from Charly's post, everything else is correct!


Also, League of Legends is now supported on Switchblade via a new App that came out today. I don't play it, but I know a lot of you guys do, so enjoy! Also, if you didn't know, Skyrim is on there now too.



@Cyanide - Friends house last night went wall, with just 1 other person on the network I was rocking 17mpbs @ 8ms ping - a farcry from the 3mbps @ 100ms+ the week before!

Wireless issue RESOLVED.

Phew. If I have anything else creek up on me you'll be the first person I look to in the future! Thanks again for all the replies! If I could give you more rep I would

Can't double dip though, 'spose its from your mSSD replacing thread.

 

The mSATA SSD acts, and *IS* a whole seperate HDD. You can install whatever you want on it.

The 64Gb one that comes with the Razer Blade is pre-configured to be used as a cache drive. You can uninstall the Dataplex software, go into Disk Management in Windows and initialize it and it will show up as a regular HDD.

You *CAN* stil have a regular SSD plus the mSATA SSD running alongside together, they will both show up as 2 separate HDDs.

Good to hear!