Up until a few days ago my aw 14 ran smooth as butter with maxed settings in WoW. But now no matter the driver, forcing the nvidia through the control panel, manually adding games, or even fn + f5 restart has me sitting at TERRIBLE fps. Even set the game to low and it gave me maybe 3-5 FPS boost. Also when I remove the driver and restart I get a BSOD which makes me think that I may have a faulty GPU. Logs are showing up clean, device manage is showing up clean as well as nvidia and intel.
Anyone else have a similar problem? Thinking I may call dell but I really DO NOT want some tech puting his/her grubby little hands on my rig.
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Ok. I have literally tried every driver and setting I can and still my fps is TERRIBLE. I guess its time to talk to dell and see about them sending me parts.
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You've got the computer plugged in, right? You can't game on battery.
If you do, try running the system diagnostics and see if it recognizes that the GPU is faulty. You can do so through boot options (F12). Alienware Technical Support will ask you to do this anyway. -
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As of now I've successfully restored to a day where I know it was working as I took gaming footage and have loaded and reloaded drivers several times. Will run my last tests this afternoon.
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Damn. I hate the idea of someone working on my rig.
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Try and uncheck the min and max fps on your wow video settings, or putting the slider all the way to max for both min/max.
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CptXabaras Overclocked, Overvolted, Liquid Cooled
just out of curiosity, have you tried any other game besides WoW? a benchmarking program (3D mark11, vantage etc..)?
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So, I dont blame when you say you dont want someone else to work on your computer. -
Another symptom I forgot to mention and supports the motherboard being the culprit is that sometimes in BIOS or even startup the keyboard is completely unresponsive or some keys dont work at all. Imaging drives right now and about to talk to dell.
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I game all the time on battery with my machine! Even when I owned an M14x I was gaming on battery. I just do nto expect near the performance. In fact, I normally set laptop at power saver mode and set the Nvidia graphic to go integrated on everything. With WOW, doing that I get 60+ FPS on fair settings. The game is playable and I can play it for 3 hours on battery. But, that is my current. I came to this forum because I am looking at getting a smaller computer again!
Besides, how do you game while taking a crap! You gotta be on battery...
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I have ac outlets in my bathroom not far from the toilet.
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Have you tried setting it to Discrete mode disable the Intel Graphics and run totally off the Nvidia?
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So removed and installed dell intel and nvidia drivers 3 times and still no good. Press fn + f5 and reboot to ultra low res and a dx9 error/warning. Doing it again got my high resolution settings back but 20 or less fps on much lower settings then usual. Email sent to dell.
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Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Thaenatos, Jan 30, 2014.