For some reason, there is a loss of performance when the adapter of my m14x is unplugged. I tried playing WoW / Starcraft and its laggy, it feels like my laptop automatically uses the Intel HD Graphic when using battery mode. I also made sure that the battery/alien fusion are set to High Performance but to no avail. The good news is that my laptop does not shut down by itself. Need help please!
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I just called dell and apparantly, this has been a known issue to some of the people. They are releasing a new graphic card vbios on the may 20th. But just wondering.. any1 experiencing this?
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There's a thread on here about the laptop crashing when trying to play games in battery mode so I would say if you're able to play it at all using the battery you're doing better than most people.
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Greetings,
You also need to open command center and change your settings to high in fusion. Unfortunately, it will then shut down.
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you need to set the graphics card to high performance not just the setting
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It's NOT in the Nvidia Control Panel. If you got to the power setting options > change Plan Settings, then click on Advanced Options.
A small window pops up with A LOT of options. You have to scroll down to the Graphics Processing Unit power management.
Change it from "Balanced" to "Max" while on battery. -
I have the same lag problem. I was getting about 25 FPS on DIRT 2 with all settings at mid and lowering the resolution to 1360 x 768 (battery + high performance mode). The second I plugged in my AC adapter, my FPS shot up into the high 60s and low 70s. Even when I maxed out DIRT 2 on 1600x900, anti aliasing and everything on high, I got 40 FPS (on AC power). No lie. The difference is that huge.
If you go into advanced settings, as a previous commenter said, you can change the GPU to MAX PERFORMANCE on battery in high performance (by default it is set to balanced). When I did that, I was getting the same 65+ FPS, but my laptop shut down on lap 2 of my first race. -
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IT's kinda stupid... like some kinda big oversight in the design of the laptop.
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Oh ok, I hope there will be a bios update soon for the fan issues and shutdown issues, I don't purchased mine atm but I hope when I'll get mine these problems will be fixed, also expecting the SATA III update because I want to buy an OCZ vertex 3 in the future.
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I think if they are going to do anything, it'll be a BIOS update to fix the issue with the battery. Battery seems to be the main culprit here altogether. -
Playing game lags when in battery mode
Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Mortinator, May 7, 2011.