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    Dell Nvidia Drivers vs Nvidia Drivers

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by L1qu1d, Nov 10, 2013.

  1. L1qu1d

    L1qu1d Notebook Evangelist

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    Back when I had the Alienware m11x R1 dell's video card support was 0. Now I see they update it. Is there any point in using the Dell one? Or do they just repackage the Nvidia one?

    I mean honestly, not P R answers :p Is it really optimized by dell or is just the Nvidia driver?

    Thanks!

    Only reason i ask is because it's much faster to receive update through nvidia
     
    L1qu1d, Nov 10, 2013
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    I suggest give both of them a go
    as dell release an update driver so rarely, it's not hard to try them all ;)
    from my experience, the latest dell driver performs better than the current nvidia driver
     
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    I believe the .45 Dell update is the Nvidia .25 driver with a minor update to fix some issue with Win 8.1. The fix should be included in NVidia's latest driver.
     
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    Pretty much that ^^... Trying them doesn't take long and may help you out with the games you play. We always recommend to stay with the DELL drivers unless one of the games you have requires an specific driver update.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Nov 12, 2013
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    The drivers seem to be better for Cs but, bf4 doesn't work dell latest drivers. So I had to go back to the latest Nvidia. Also the Dell ones do not support 8.1, they crashed upon completion, and Nvidia control panel doesn't work lol

    I hope we see dell drivers soon, every other laptop has been updated! funny thing is that the alienware ones were updated on the same day nvidia launched the 331.65 drivers (which are the only ones that work with BF4.
     
    L1qu1d, Nov 15, 2013
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    I second this. I've tryied the latest dell drivers. BF4 was "running" at 4 - 5 fps.... (optimus disabled) and give you the warning at start up that 331.65whql drivers were required.

    In the hope that dell will address the problem quickly, i'll stick with 331.65whql drivers.
     
    CptXabaras, Nov 16, 2013
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    If any of you are running Windows 7 with IE 11 this may be causing some serious performance issues. The reason is that Windows Update KB2670838 (a requisite update) cripples things. For me it knocks frames down by almost 50% and some cases more. For example, in Fire Strike benchmark I am normally running between 45 and 70 FPS as it progresses through test #1 and it drops to an average of 15 FPS as soon as the update has been installed. You may want to uninstall KB2670838 (which will simultaneously downgrade your IE to 9.0). I use Chrome so I don't really care about this.

    KB2670838 Windows Update Diminishes DX11 Performance For Windows Users
     
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