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One Skunk Todd
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October 5th, 2009 16:00
M17x really slow
I've tried a number of different drivers to see if I could get a particular game working. Some of them seemed to install ok but most of them weren't stable and none solved my problem. Finally I decided to just go back with the basic drivers from Dell and the machine is very slow. Opening web pages, scrolling text files, playing solitaire, everything is very slow and laggy. If I uninstall the video drivers altogether and just use MS VGA drivers everything is fine (with low resolution). As soon as I install any video drivers it's like the machine is full of molasses. Anybody have any suggestion? I've been using driver sweeper to make sure I'm cleaning out the old drivers completely but that doesn't seem to help.
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One Skunk Todd
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Posted October 6th, 2009 18:00
Uninstalled everything and reinstalled 186.81 whql driver from the Nvidia site and everything is running normally. Not sure what caused the slowdown. Before I uninstalled CPU usage was constant at 40 percent or so and turning on firefox and email pushed it to 80 or 90. After I uninstalled and was just using VGA it went to 3 to 5 percent and after reinstallation it stayed at that level.