Stargate Fanboy
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Hi,
Okay, I recently got an Alienware M15x and it's a great computer, love it, I have had no problems with it until now. Yesterday I went to play Civilization 5, now the computer had been running the game just fine all weekend, fantastically in fact, but yesterday the game had an unbelievably bad framerate, it was so slow it was unplayable, I restarted the computer but that made no difference, I updated the NVIDIA driver, no difference, I check the windows experience index and my 'Graphics' had gone from 6.9 to 2.8, which made me thing my graphics card was broken, but I did a system restore and then it was running fine and the windows experience index was back up to 6.9 for graphics, and it was running civilization perfectly again, but since I restarded my computer (turned it off yesterday, started it up again today) it is running all my games just as badly again, I checked the windows experience index again but so far that hasn't gone down to 2.8 again, I would prefer not to have to do another system restore, the only program I have installed since the first restore was maybe iTunes but I can't remember, my specs are below:
Processor: Intel(R) Core (TM) i5 CPU M520 @ 2.40GHz 2.40GHz
Memory (RAM): 3.00GB
Windows 7 64-Bit (Service Pack 1)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M @ 1.5GB
Please help ASAP.
Okay I just went back to the Windows experience index and it's done the exact same thing, it said New hardware detected, your score needs to be refreshed, so I ran the test again and the graphics has again gone back down to 2.8.
Okay, I recently got an Alienware M15x and it's a great computer, love it, I have had no problems with it until now. Yesterday I went to play Civilization 5, now the computer had been running the game just fine all weekend, fantastically in fact, but yesterday the game had an unbelievably bad framerate, it was so slow it was unplayable, I restarted the computer but that made no difference, I updated the NVIDIA driver, no difference, I check the windows experience index and my 'Graphics' had gone from 6.9 to 2.8, which made me thing my graphics card was broken, but I did a system restore and then it was running fine and the windows experience index was back up to 6.9 for graphics, and it was running civilization perfectly again, but since I restarded my computer (turned it off yesterday, started it up again today) it is running all my games just as badly again, I checked the windows experience index again but so far that hasn't gone down to 2.8 again, I would prefer not to have to do another system restore, the only program I have installed since the first restore was maybe iTunes but I can't remember, my specs are below:
Processor: Intel(R) Core (TM) i5 CPU M520 @ 2.40GHz 2.40GHz
Memory (RAM): 3.00GB
Windows 7 64-Bit (Service Pack 1)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M @ 1.5GB
Please help ASAP.
Okay I just went back to the Windows experience index and it's done the exact same thing, it said New hardware detected, your score needs to be refreshed, so I ran the test again and the graphics has again gone back down to 2.8.