6990m Cut Scene and game screen tearing

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

Ok, so my new alienware has been running fine up till today, this morning I started up crysis and began to play at my normal settings and it started out being horribly laggy, so I called up alienware and they just told me to refresh my drivers, that fixed the lagg but now in all of my cut scenes I get video tearing lines. Alienware is telling me that they think I should replace my graphics card and they will do it for free but I personally think that seems unnecessary as there should be a much simpler solution to this problem, so in search of that solution I have decided to come to the wonderful realm of OC3D and see if anyone can help me figure this out.

 

[S_I_N]

first off get a desktop its way better

now seriously if it didnt start til the driver update roll back to the old one and see whats what. maybe theres an inbetween driver?? or it could just be tweaking the settings of the new drivers

 

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

first off get a desktop its way better

now seriously if it didnt start til the driver update roll back to the old one and see whats what. maybe theres an inbetween driver?? or it could just be tweaking the settings of the new drivers

First off a gaming desktop with the same specs as this with monitor and all would have been about 2.5-3k so no, they are not better < < Secondly, it actually started like in the morning, when I turned it one and switched back from my sandy bridge onboard graphics which I was using to save power. So I know it is not the drivers.

 

[S_I_N]

lol bro the desktop comment was a poke at ya

was thinking it was driver related as you said Alienware told ya to refresh the drivers figured it was a good place to start at. but weird its only at cut scenes as they are not normally as graphically intensive as the gaming portion.

 

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

lol bro the desktop comment was a poke at ya

was thinking it was driver related as you said Alienware told ya to refresh the drivers figured it was a good place to start at. but weird its only at cut scenes as they are not normally as graphically intensive as the gaming portion.

Yea..time to update, finally started to notice it in the game itself, even if only every now and then. Have any thoughts on how I mite correct this?

 

[I Hunta x]

FYI the "6990m" if its like any of the older laptop equivalent parts will be roughly 50-60% the performance of the desktop named equivalent sooo.

If you know the Driver version it came with try that on it again, if no luck try from the latest one back one by one to see if you get better results.

 

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

FYI the "6990m" if its like any of the older laptop equivalent parts will be roughly 50-60% the performance of the desktop named equivalent sooo.

If you know the Driver version it came with try that on it again, if no luck try from the latest one back one by one to see if you get better results.

Well that is a given XD we all know that about lappy parts, now there is a new problem....first on the finaly mission of crysis once I get out of the carrier and begin to fight the boss the entire sky is flashing different colors and a white light will all of a sudden hit and the game crashes, now WoW is running like shit and it normally runs GREAT. I finally found a weird fix though, I oced the 6990m with Saphire TRIX and oced it to 800 on the core clock, and 1000 on the memory clock. This fixed the problem, even though Crysis will still crash at random moments some times, and WoW has never ran so smoothly, I am always above 50fps....but it is weird that the only way I could fix those problems was threw an OC...does this mean I really do have a slightly defective gfx card?

 

[Pat123]

If alienware have offered to fix it for free, whats the problem in doing that? I wouldn't mess around too much otherwise they might turn around and say 'you've messed with this we aren't going to help you'. My advice is just send it back, you've spent a lot of money don't waste it..

 

[DwarfAdigginAhole]

If alienware have offered to fix it for free, whats the problem in doing that? I wouldn't mess around too much otherwise they might turn around and say 'you've messed with this we aren't going to help you'. My advice is just send it back, you've spent a lot of money don't waste it..

Turned out to not be the gfx card, they did not help me at all, they in fact hindered me as this new gfx card overheats badly. I am attempting to get this worked out though. I am about to check the drivers because something else that seems to have screwed up when this happened, my Catalyst control center, I am almost certain this is a drivers issue now.