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    is the dell stock drivers better for battery life for m11x r2?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by gordesky1, Mar 23, 2011.

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    Today for some reason my m11x r2 windows got really mess up on its own which seems like after i tried too play crysis 2 the activation kept popping up and the game wouldn't start so i restarted and got the endless loading files and no matter what i did i couldn't get windows too boot up, so i restored with the dell image partition.

    And everything seems much faster and when i tested the battery life when im at work the battery life was saying 6 too 7hours even in battery bar and discharge rate is much lower and i saw as low as 7 and 8mw!

    Before with the new drivers i was getting like 4hours too 4hours and 30min max showing on battery bar and windows battery thing and discharge was around 16mw and will go down too the lowest 13 too 14mw.

    So does the dell drivers give off better battery life than the latest nvidia drivers off there site?

    I would like the new drivers because i herd they the ony ones that work with punkbuster games, But i also want this good battery life.


    At first i was kinda disappointed with the battery life but im pretty happy with it now.
     
    gordesky1, Mar 23, 2011
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