Alan Wake Horrid Performance on M14x

Title sums it up, just bought the franchise running on my M14x which has an i7 2720QM running at 2.20Ghz, 4GB of RAM, and a Nvidia GT555m which is running the 301.42 driver. Yes, I have tried white listing the game in the NVIDIA control panel with no better results. I've seen and read forums posts/videos of people who have the same system, run the game completely maxed out just fine so I'm pretty perplexed what the issue is here.
Any help is appreciated thanks!

 

Maybe its the verde driver. Try installing the specific gt 555m drivers from the Dell site and not the gt 650m drivers. Did you try to rightclick the games exe and manually use the nvidia GPU for it?

Anyway i doubt that the M14x R1 can play Alan Wake in max settings without heavy lag. The youtube vids i found was playing it in max settings and in 1366 x 768 with decent lag. Playing it in Full HD or even in 1600 x 900 on this system will cause it running in like 15 FPS or something.

Dont forget the gt 555m is pretty weak for newer demanding games.

 

I am running it in 1366x768 I'll try running different drivers but the ones dell hosts on their site are ancient and will severely bog down my performance in most other games like Skyrim. I don't expect Maxed settings with 100 FPS, but I do expect my hardware to at least run medium in a stable state. The menus and videos all run extremely snappy even while in game which makes me suspicious that it's a software issue not a performance thing. Along with that this is a console port off the 360 which runs the equivalent of an 7900GT.

 

What type of performance are we talking? Notebookcheck lists your GPU with Alan Wake at about 25 FPS on medium settings. According to benchmarks, AlanW is pretty badly coded. Are you talking about SUB 25 frames?

 

I just bought Alan Wake, but I'm running it on my R2 with an i5 and the 1GB GeForce 650M. Would that make any difference? My copy runs great so far, though I haven't made it too far into the game. I am also running the latest beta driver.

 

Yea it matters, the 650m is a good bit better than the 555m.

 

Everything's a massive difference for me, I jumped from the m11x R1's little 335M into this! I'm liking Alan Wake's plot so far, it's like a less-violent version of Silent Hill meets a Stephen King novel. Still a good survival horror game. What's creepy is the cabin reminds me of the one I stayed in with my wife on our honeymoon...all I was missing was a chainsaw and a shotgun.

 

Fantastic game, I beat it on xbox 3 times and the final time on Nightmare, which IS a nightmare (soo hard). When I get my m17x, I'm going to re-buy it on steam.

 

I was getting less than 8 FPS on Very Low, but I fixed it. The solution was a complete reformat unfortunately. A few days ago I had a bad malware infection and used combofix to cure it. I found out combofix irreversibly s up any computers with Nvidia Optimus (Ability to switch between integrated and Nvidia GPU seamlessly) so despite that I had whitelisted games to run the Nvidia GPU combofix deleted the necessary files to allow my system to turn it on. In summary combofix.

 

Yikes, sounds like combofix has some problems of its own...I just use Malwarebytes and Avast in unison. I noticed my R2 defaults to the NVidia GPU with Steam itself, but some of the games' exe files I had to manually whitelist. I fell off a cliff near the start of Alan Wake about 5 times in a row, then I realized my dog had one of her paws on my keyboard.