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    NVidia Driver Question (GT555M Related)

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by TheBadCharacter, Apr 30, 2012.

  1. TheBadCharacter

    TheBadCharacter Newbie

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    I find every time I update my drivers, if the game is not running in DX11, the performance on the game becomes significantly worse. I play a lot of non DX11 games, and ironically Crysis 2 runs better on DX11 heavy settings than on non-dx11 settings.

    My question is, why? Makes no sense to me that DX11 which I assume is more hardware intensive, would run better than using normal dx9/10. I'm also curious if using the beta drivers might resolve this issue to some degree.
     
    TheBadCharacter, Apr 30, 2012
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  2. CGSDR

    CGSDR Alien Master Race

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    First thing first, have you whitelist the Game's .exe file into NVIDIA Control Panel (Guide can be found in my sig)? And if possible use the 295.73 instead because I find that version is the only stable one that doesnt drop fps or crash games for those who has a high OC setting like me.
     
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