Framerate Problems with Alienware M15x

I have an alienware m15x and all of my games are having framerate issues, even at less demanding settings. Can this be fixed or is this a serious issue?

Odd. Now it is only happening with L4D2 and Fallout New Vegas. Thoughts anyone?

It might help if you tell what specs it has maybe. im guessing you customized it a bit

NVIDEA GFORCE GTX c260m graphics

Intel Core I7 CPU

Pretty much the standard M15x specs.

NVIDEA GFORCE GTX c260m graphics

Intel Core I7 CPU

Pretty much the standard M15x specs.

GBASWFan

I think that GPU is a bit weak for games. So if youre playing new games and trying to max them on that, then it could be the problem. What kinda games are you running? and what settings?

And what do you mean by less demanding settings? medium?

All of this started happening after Fallout New Vegas crashed at a loading screen. I couldnt do anything, not even task manager, so I had to do a force shutdown. After that, all of this happened. Is it possible thatis the problem?

All of this started happening after Fallout New Vegas crashed at a loading screen. I couldnt do anything, not even task manager, so I had to do a force shutdown. After that, all of this happened. Is it possible thatis the problem?

GBASWFan

I am going to update my windows, in case the update that was happening around the time of the crash didnt go through

I am updating my drivers, Is it possible that drivers are the problem if some games work and some dont? If it was a driver issue, none of the games would work. Or would they?

I am updating my drivers, Is it possible that drivers are the problem if some games work and some dont? If it was a driver issue, none of the games would work. Or would they?

GBASWFan

The NVIDEA installer said it couldnt find compatable hardware.

Nevermind about the above comment. I chose the wrong kind of driver. It is updating as we speak. Dont know if it will help though.

Lets hope that it was something that screwed up when the update was interrupted in the drivers. Cause then reinstalling drivers would fix it. Lets see what happens...

If it comes to the worst scenario, you could just reinstall windows all over again. Don't do that yet though... leave that as a last resort.

Windows itself was updating, not the driver. The crash didnt occur after the windows update.

I figured out what is causing the problem. Whenever I plug the laptop in, the computer actually performs WORSE! When I unplug it, it plays like it is suppost to. I dont know how to fix this problem however.

I put it on Performance Mode and it still wont work well. If i play unplugged, it works for a few minutes, then the framerate starts sucking again.

I only have one card

This is becoming disturbing when even Dragon Age Origins is suffering from framerate issues. A fix, anyone, or shall I continue to suffer. Even unplugged, the framerate still has issues.

Which resolution are you playing at?

I believe the M15X is suited for 1280*768 so don't expect good results at 1920*1080.

Stock drivers won't work natively, lookfor insight. You need to either do a little editing in Notepad or wait for Dell/Alienware to update their branded driver version.

Make sure the graphics card is the preferred gpu in Nvidia control panel.