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    My Nividia control panel lost its 3d settings.

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by abcxyz91, Apr 23, 2011.

  1. abcxyz91

    abcxyz91 Notebook Consultant

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    From stock nvidia driver, I upgraded to 266.58 and after 2-3 days, the nvidia control panel lost its settings. The only left is "Set physX configuration".
    Then I upgraded to 267.76 and after 2-3 days it became like 266.58.
    It only fixed when I rollback to dell driver. Does anyone here have this problem and how did you solve, could you tell me?
    I already google but seems like edit registry doesn't work, at least for me.
     
    abcxyz91, Apr 23, 2011
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    spadesluck Notebook Enthusiast

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    Restarting the computer usually helps. I stuck with the 260.99 driver because of that issue with the 266.58 driver. I do not know how the 270 driver does with this issue.
     
    spadesluck, Apr 23, 2011
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    DeeVu That Compsci/Psych Major

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    267.76 driver hardly has that happen for me. Weird. When it does happen all I do is restart and its comes back.
     
    DeeVu, Apr 23, 2011
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    How am I supposed to do if the restart method doesn't work?
     
    abcxyz91, Apr 25, 2011
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    thegh0sts Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    it should work. if not look for an NvXDSync.exe and restart that program.
     
    thegh0sts, Apr 25, 2011
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    Yeah restart should work? I would post on nVIDIA forums because this issue was suppose to be fixed if you are using latest version..
    Perhaps you did not clean install properly. For that I think you need to do a Driver Sweep, install the factory drivers again, then install the latest. I could be wrong though... A lot of people are saying the new feature 'clean install' in the actual driver package itself works well
     
    MasivB, Apr 25, 2011
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