Thorarin
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I will do the same for now. I had some issues doing a clean install last time I tried, so I'm not quite ready for that yet.
I'll try with some other games as well and see if they have similar issues.
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I haven't played Guild Wars 2 specifically, but CPU does become an issue for some other games in the genre once too many people are in a single area.
Have you tried playing with the graphics settings at all? If lowering them doesn't increase the FPS significantly, then CPU being the bottleneck would be very likely.
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I have a M17x R4 with 7970M. Last week I upgraded to Windows 8.1. After the upgrade, I lost my dedicated graphics until I installed these drivers (AMD 13.151).
However, now I'm seeing a very strange performance issue. I was trying to play Rift on the laptop, but it was performing even worse than it was before I reinstalled the AMD drivers. I was getting about 2 FPS on settings that were previously fine for the laptop. After some experimentation I figured out that the performance is fine when I run the game in windowed mode, but it is terrible when running full screen.
I realize this is a pretty specific set of circumstances, but has anyone seen something similar, or does anyone have any suggestions on what I could try to resolve this?
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Thanks for the update. It appears the European Dell website is lagging behind. A12 was still the latest version there.
Terrible 7970M full screen performance on Windows 8.1
in Alienware M17x / AW 17
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I've just tried the same with Neverwinter, which was the only other game I have installed on the laptop. I get a similar performance drop when playing full screen, so for the time being I'll assume it's a fairly common driver issue and will be fixed in some later version.