Leo14

Long story short, having issues getting FPS to hover where it once did, sits around 10 or so now, I'm not sure where I should start but I've run out of options and I've been at this for too damn long M17x r3 HDD is 6 years old - my thoughts it's finally had enough and that's my issue ( unsure ) 680m with 382.33 from may I believe, had the most recent installed, not as bad as now but still, 10 FPS and unplayable. Had upgraded to windows 10, drivers never installed or worked properly at all when it did install once, re formatted back to windows 7 with cd from purchase, now nothing runs as close to what it once did I've checked updates/drivers for mobo, direct x, bios is set to peg, audio drivers, windows updates, prefer max performance Could it be my ac adapter? vBios? Temps from what I've seen are fine, I've let it run for a while with a game open while getting under 20'fps, minimized st 6fps to check CPU and gpu temps both were under 60 Celsius. I'm lost here, if anyone has insight or could just even give me something else to try it would be very much so appreciated. I've been struggling for days with this and I know the damn thing is capable of running at least a few of these games with at least 60 FPS, 40 even would be acceptable for those that I expect 60+ Sorry for the lengthy messy post, I'm stressing and struggling to get this going again. New PC isn't in question yet.. though I am saving towards it

I've been struggling with updating drivers after installing windows 10 (m17xr3 680m) either it corrupts and I can't modify the file properly, or it just fails after 10% install ??? At first the newest drivers downloaded - but wouldn't display to my monitor. Now I just can't get drivers installed period. What the hell is going wrong? I've tried nvdmi / nv_dispi / nvam I've disabled driver signing I've updated am I missing something like damn java ? What is it. Days of this ugh any insight would help. Just reformatted as well

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_11A0&SUBSYS_04901028&REV_A1 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_11A0&SUBSYS_04901028 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_11A0&CC_030000 PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_11A0&CC_0300 those are what i found for hardware ids.. no idea what you mean sorry lol. Windows 7, probably dedicated considering I've never heard of optimus. What should I do? Runs like crap. Can't do anything. S

windows 7 btw.. did some searching cant find anything. I thought there was a thread but I can't recall..

All of a sudden low fps, realized it has been a while since I've updated. Do I need a new inf file everytime I update? Thanks in advance

Dire need of help 680m m17x r3 need modded inf/updated driver

Haven't updated in a while, did a quick search came up empty.. any new updates for 680m/modded inf?? It's been a while

Still spiking down to 6 occasionally, not really sure what could be causing it.. pretty stumped at this point, CPU temps haven't gone above 73 on any of the cores and gpu max 66

Whoops.. kk it's disabled now

Well this is delayed.. Thanks I will do that,

Hmmm maybe I should have checked that out. Would have been worth a shot, not sure if I added any conclusion to this issue but it seemed to resolve itself after swapping the 460m for a 680m. Wish I knew what was actually the issue, was probably what you said tho mw86.. As after I installed the cArd I installed a diff bios..

Well ever since I did http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m17x-aw-17/2285-unlocked-throttlestop-alienware-m17x-r3-r4-m18x-r1-r2.html and went into the bios etc and changed the pwr limits etc, I've noticed my fps being lower overall and spiking. I'm going to undo what I did for now and see if that helps, but not really sure why this is hindering performance. Was I supposed to raise the short/max higher then 72?

I dont know what I fucked up but my temps have been lower, and it seems as if it is running worse, framerate is lower.. might be the new drivers but idk. Wasn't this bad lol. Probably going to just un do this..

Thank you so much J

This is going to be an almost pointless thread. I've been on the unlocked bios for a while with the same video card drivers, feeling like it's time to update, is there a thread where those modded files get posted for the newest updates? Or am I just mislead here and just need to do a DDU then a clean install/modded .inf file?