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    Fatal Problem on Alienware 17R2

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by elichow747, Oct 3, 2015.

  1. elichow747

    elichow747 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Bonjour everyone,
    I'm using a 240W PSU and I have upgraded the bios straight from A00 to A06 few weeks ago.
    Currently, I realized that I'm facing fatal performance throttling issue during gaming session.
    (Battlefield 4: It was 70+ fps and never drop below 60, now it easily drop below 60 fps)
    (GTA V: It was 60+ fps on high settling with 2X MSAA, now it turns to below 60+ fps..)
    Sometimes, I also realized the "Nvidia stated Displayed Driver Stop Working and Recovered." keep appears after startup.
    To summarize it, performance throttling happens and I suspect my Alienware is now "bricked"?? I heard people said that doing a Blind flash will help.
    Can anyone help me on this?
    Thank you..
     
    elichow747, Oct 3, 2015
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    judal57 Notebook Deity

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    judal57, Oct 3, 2015
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  3. DeeX

    DeeX THz

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    You must use a program like Intel Extreme Tuning Utility and GPU-Z to actually see if you are throttling. I have seen some recent nVidia drivers kill frame rates. So to be sure please gather some data via some apps.

    Also the "Nvidia stated Displayed Driver Stop Working and Recovered." is a known bug with some recent nVidia drivers and mainly Google Chrome and some other browsers. The work around is to disable hardware acceleration or simply close Chrome while playing games.
    This is not to say this error might show up by other means but this is a fairly common issue with recent drivers.

    Also just curious; Which Windows version are you on?
     
    DeeX, Oct 3, 2015
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  4. elichow747

    elichow747 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm using a Window 10.
    The performance in gaming was fine with Window 10.
    I realized this problem after 2-3 weeks I upgraded the bios from A00 to A06 (Not step by step)
    Thanks for your suggestion. I will try it out.
     
    elichow747, Oct 4, 2015
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  5. Papusan

    Papusan Jokebook's Sucks! Dont waste your $$$ on Filthy

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    Win 10 give you unwanted drivers automatically. Remove the trash Os and rather use win7.
     
    Papusan, Oct 4, 2015
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    I have the same problem as this guy have, with my Alienware 15.
     
    bumbo2, Oct 4, 2015
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