Posts by PatioFurniture

yeah I have tried all of those, and it is still bothering me, I thought a defrag would do it....

so. i tried enabling Vsync and no luck. What i am noticing is a noise from my hard drives when the game lags, just for a split second, so the overflow of the RAM makes sense. But could that really happen with 2GB on a game like FIFA 07?

Nope im not playing online... When it does it my hard drive makes noise for a sec if that helps

Thanks Brixton, also congrats on you M5790 nice times through the stages!!

When I am playing some games, that are not all that graphically intensive, such as FIFA 07 and Call of Duty 2, my framerate will be plenty high (no lower than 35FPS) and every once and a while i will still get a lurch. In FIFA the only...

Hey thanks guys i have paid more attention to that and now it makes sense.

So it clocks down even when i am plugged in to AC power?

I recently re-installed XP on my M9700 and in the control panel i saw my CPU clock was being reported at 807Mhz. I updated to the latest drivers and it is better there. I thought all was well until I ran CPU-Z and it showed 807Mhz as...

Yeah, I was being dumb and didn't even think to look on the Alienware site. But its all good now. Thanks for your help!

I got my M9700 today configured with Vista. I decided that i didn't like Vista at all and proceeded to re-install XP. I ran across a problem when i tried to reinstall drivers. The WLAN driver was in a different language and didn't...