So I have an Alienware m17 laptop, from 2012 I believe. 16g Ram, Solid state hard drive, Nvidia 660, windows 7.
Not entirely sure what all to specify, but a few months ago, my computer froze while updating my driver.
Before I'm told to load a restore, this happened at a very unfortunate moment and I cannot. I screwed up, and don't need to be told that I did.
Anyway, the graphics card still works, but sub-par. When I start up, occasionally the graphics must have failed because it starts looking like I don't have any card installed and I have to restart, but then it's fine other than initially the resolution on my logon screen is wrong. That automatically corrects itself when I log in. On the surface, it seems perfectly fine, but when I start to play any games, I notice a few issues.
One, being when I play an old World of Warcraft server, if my laptop started up with the incorrect resolution, I will not be able to correct the resolution to 1920x1080. The max I will be able to do is 1600. However, if I restart, log in on a guest profile of windows so the resolution corrects there, then I log off and log into my main one, the resolution is fine. When I do this, my overall performance seems slightly better.
Also, I'm beginning to notice major performance issues. Where I used to be able to get 120fps, I am barely able to pull 40. (All in-game settings unchanged).
Any sort of factory restore is at the bottom of the list of things I want to do.
I have updated my drivers since then, and tried totally reinstalling the driver.
Thanks for any suggestions
Not entirely sure what all to specify, but a few months ago, my computer froze while updating my driver.
Before I'm told to load a restore, this happened at a very unfortunate moment and I cannot. I screwed up, and don't need to be told that I did.
Anyway, the graphics card still works, but sub-par. When I start up, occasionally the graphics must have failed because it starts looking like I don't have any card installed and I have to restart, but then it's fine other than initially the resolution on my logon screen is wrong. That automatically corrects itself when I log in. On the surface, it seems perfectly fine, but when I start to play any games, I notice a few issues.
One, being when I play an old World of Warcraft server, if my laptop started up with the incorrect resolution, I will not be able to correct the resolution to 1920x1080. The max I will be able to do is 1600. However, if I restart, log in on a guest profile of windows so the resolution corrects there, then I log off and log into my main one, the resolution is fine. When I do this, my overall performance seems slightly better.
Also, I'm beginning to notice major performance issues. Where I used to be able to get 120fps, I am barely able to pull 40. (All in-game settings unchanged).
Any sort of factory restore is at the bottom of the list of things I want to do.
I have updated my drivers since then, and tried totally reinstalling the driver.
Thanks for any suggestions