maestro_jiang Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Hey guys, new to this site so please excuse me if there's an issue with this post. I just bought an Alienware 17 and the previous owner had replaced the original AMD card with a GTX 980M, which is great but I am having a hell of a time trying to get drivers to work properly. I am using the latest nVidia 378.49 with the modified .ini as shown here: http://null-bin.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/how-to-modify-nvidia-notebook-driver.html Can anyone give me some ideas, the drivers seem to install fine but after a couple of minutes in a game, it will crash with a grey screen and windows will tell me that the application was blocked from using the GPU (btw this is in the "non-switched" graphics mode with the FN+F5 shortcut, I cant get anything to run on the 980M in the normal mode). Any ideas? I used Section 244 and Section 246, same issues...Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoldago Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 If you are using Windows 10 you have to modify 2 device id groups, "[NVIDIA_Devices.NTamd64.10.0...14310]" and "[NVIDIA_Devices.NTamd64.10.0]". What about your temps, are they ok? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maestro_jiang Posted February 1, 2017 Author Share Posted February 1, 2017 Hey man, yeah the temps seem to be OK (around 70c at full load I think, although I've not really been able to run it for very long given the issue). I didn't know you have to do both, but they have different sections for the graphics card? Which section do I use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoldago Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 12 hours ago, maestro_jiang said: I didn't know you have to do both, The second came with a driver update after a big Windows 10 update. The instructions you use are a bit old, that's the reason why there's only one id Group. I always use section 033 and it worked for me in my M17x r4 with a 780M, 880M, 980M and 1060. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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