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    Driver help

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by masafi73, Jun 8, 2011.

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    masafi73 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Can anyone help me get the correct driver for my graphics card i brought my laptop just before 2009 running windows vista 64, 4 gig ram, nvida 9800m GT ....When i find the newest ones from nvida site they dont work on all games..ive downloaded the ones from alienware site a few months back which are the 176.37 (using that now) and that seems to work on more games than the new drivers do but the 176.37 must be old now... i contacted alienware they told me the my hive is no longer up and running so they sent me here....help very confused ! :confused: thanks.
     
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    JohnnyFlash Notebook Virtuoso

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    Which games are you having problems with, using the official nvidia driver?
     
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    Well i cant remember all but i had problems with rift and also dc universe dc universe came up with an error mesage about wrong video card settings so i rolled back to the old 176.37 from aw site and they work fine with rift and dc universe...both on high settings so i know my rig can play them...i understand my card is old and tbh not very good but im just confused what drivers i should be using ?
     
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    also im trying to get dungeon seige 3 demo to work from steam but the game crashes as soon as i open it in steam and gives me a runtime error...reading the steam forum im not the only one but i thought it maybe a driver problem...
     
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