I have bought an alienware m11x to play STO as seen in the last game convention.
But when i try to play (full graphics mode), i see that Antialiasing is disabled because it is not supported by the graphic card (NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 335M 1 GB GDDR3) so in game graphics are pixeled. I have already updated the drivers (from dell).
I cant understand i have watched all the videos in the last game convention where someone played STO full graphics and antialiasing was enabled.
Actually i play with the gread squareborders Sciencie vessel, it reminds me early 90s games.
Ouch you should have gone with an ATI card this round. I designed a system a while back with a 4 series HD that has done excellent.
So far most Nvidia Cards after the 9 series have essentially been 9 series cards with minor fixes, clock speed up's, and even minor degrations.
When you say update drivers from dell I assume you mean AlienWare?
Try default Graphics Drivers from Nvidia
Did you research your mainboard chipset throughly? Might be an issue there. Also Nvidia usually comes with a client that you can edit settings in that, including game profiles. Try that as well.
I have bought an alienware m11x to play STO as seen in the last game convention.
But when i try to play (full graphics mode), i see that Antialiasing is disabled because it is not supported by the graphic card (NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 335M 1 GB GDDR3) so in game graphics are pixeled. I have already updated the drivers (from dell).
When you say "is disabled" is the option for Anti-aliasing greyed out or is it simply turned off? Last I checked the M11x should work okay with at least 2x AA at 1280x768 or so.
Its the Intel® Core2 Duo SU7300 1.3GHz (3MB Cache) version.
Sorry for not coming back here sooner to reply to this. -_-
It's showing up greyed out? That's really odd and does not sound right at all so I think there may be something else going on. Can you attach a DXDIAG file to your post so that we can see what may be going on? If you have not done this before here are some steps provided by cipher_nemo:
1. Hold down the Windows key and press the R key. If you don't have a Windows key, then go to "Run" from the Start menu.
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2. Type dxdiag into the box and press Enter or click "'Ok".
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3. If you're prompted with a question, just dismiss it for now. Let the progress bar finish before doing anything.
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4. Click on the "Save All Information" button.
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5. Click "Save" to save the file to your desktop (default location).
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6. Open up the newly created file (ie: double-click on it).
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7. Right click anywhere on the text and choose "Select All" (or press Ctrl-A).
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8. Right click anywhere on the text and choose "Copy" (or press Ctrl-C).
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9. Use a pastebin service such as http://pastebin.com/ to paste your copied DXDiag text (Ctrl-V to paste).
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10. Link your pastebin to your post.
Also, if you can, go to http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ and download that program. Once downloaded double-click the file which will run the program 'tho you may have to click "yes" on a "are you sure" message. Once you have it up please do a ALT+PRT SCR to take a screenshot, open up Paint (under Accessories in your Start Menu), paste the picture into the application and save it, then attach that as well to a post in this thread.
This will tell us what hardware you are running and maybe get a customer support person or developer to take a look. It will also help the rest of us help try and troubleshoot your issue especially since some of us were thinking of this laptop to buy for STO. ^_^
Any news on this Sivious? I've got a couple of other ideas to try for you after you are able to get the info I suggested in my last post.
Normally I'd let this die but you're the only person I know of who actually has a M11x AND STO instead of one or the other. And I figure if I can help you here I can share the link elsewhere with other potential M11x owners.
Okay, I'm looking at your DXDIAG now and had a question for you. When you launch STO are you making sure to switch over to the NVIDIA graphics instead of the Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family? That would explain why no anti-aliasing option shows up. I tried finding a walkthru on how to do this but couldn't find one but I'll still look if for some reason it's not in the manual for your notebook.
Now, if you've never uninstalled and reinstalled your drivers before here is a set of steps that details out the process:
1. Copy the new driver onto your desktop where it may be easily located.
2. Go into the Control Panel and under Add/Remove Programs (or Programs and Features in Vista and Win 7) find the driver in the application listing.
3. Left-click on the driver labeled NVIDIA Driver. Once highlighted click on the Uninstall button (or Change/Remove under Windows XP) up at the top which should now start the full uninstall process. When the uninstall completes do NOT reboot your system yet.
4. Look for two other products such as the PhysX driver and Nforce Display Manager and make sure they are both uninstalled as well.
5. Once you have the NVIDIA Drivers, NVIDIA PhysX, and NVIDIA Nview manager removed go ahead and reboot your system.
6. After your system finishes rebooting, and you cancel the "Install driver" messages, you will run the driver that you saved to your desktop; making sure to reboot your system once the new driver has finished installation.
Now, if for some reason updating or re-installing your graphics card drivers does not work please reply back here and there are a couple of other things we can try. I do not wish to overwhelm you with things early on and I do encourage you to ask questions if something does not make sense or if you need clarification on something.
Also, if you have never been here, the NotebookReview website is a good resource for you as well:
I have done everything you said except the uninstalling NForce and Nvidia Sphinx that did not appeared.
I reinstalled the last driver from dell "R253896.exe" but i had no results. Antialiasing option is disabled :S
I dont know what to do next. :S
Well, I was hoping it would not come to this since I've not tried this before. Let's try modifying the gameprefs.pref file to see if we can force the anti-aliasing to kick off.
1. Locate the gameprefs.pref file that the game uses which is usually ends with Star Trek Online\Live\Localdata. Now do note that there are two different gameprefs.pref files in your game directory but the one you want is in the Live\localdata folder.
2. Once in there you can open this file by right-click and select Open With... and just select notepad from the list.
3. Once the file is open look for a line titled PrefEntry GfxSettings.Antialiasing, change the number to a 4, and then save the file.
Now, what I am hoping is that the game will auto-switch from Recommended to Custom and force the enabling of the anti-aliasing option. I should also note that there is a way to force anti-aliasing in the driver of most NVIDIA video cards but that is a last option since it can cause more problems than it fixes.
If that still fails to work the best suggestion I have would be to submit a bug inside of the game; making sure to reference this thread in the body of the text.
Hopefully one of the devs will then take a look at it and see if there may be something else that can be done. I'm pretty sure that I've seen the option enabled on another M11x before and that the GPU does support the feature.
I called dell support this morning.
They tell me to get into the bios and Enable the option that let me change between the 2 graphics GPUs.
They dont know why it was enabled.
Now Fn + f6 works fine, and antialiasing is enabled.
I called dell support this morning.
They tell me to get into the bios and Enable the option that let me change between the 2 graphics GPUs.
They dont know why it was enabled.
Now Fn + f6 works fine, and antialiasing is enabled.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
AWESOME news!!!
Do let us know as well how the game performs, what settings you are using, and all that other good stuff. ^_^
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So far most Nvidia Cards after the 9 series have essentially been 9 series cards with minor fixes, clock speed up's, and even minor degrations.
When you say update drivers from dell I assume you mean AlienWare?
Try default Graphics Drivers from Nvidia
Did you research your mainboard chipset throughly? Might be an issue there. Also Nvidia usually comes with a client that you can edit settings in that, including game profiles. Try that as well.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-335M.24060.0.html
Which CPU did you go with?
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+SU4100+%40+1.30GHz
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+SU7300+%40+1.30GHz
Alienware are Dells now
When you say "is disabled" is the option for Anti-aliasing greyed out or is it simply turned off? Last I checked the M11x should work okay with at least 2x AA at 1280x768 or so.
Sorry for not coming back here sooner to reply to this. -_-
It's showing up greyed out? That's really odd and does not sound right at all so I think there may be something else going on. Can you attach a DXDIAG file to your post so that we can see what may be going on? If you have not done this before here are some steps provided by cipher_nemo:
1. Hold down the Windows key and press the R key. If you don't have a Windows key, then go to "Run" from the Start menu.
.
2. Type dxdiag into the box and press Enter or click "'Ok".
.
3. If you're prompted with a question, just dismiss it for now. Let the progress bar finish before doing anything.
.
4. Click on the "Save All Information" button.
.
5. Click "Save" to save the file to your desktop (default location).
.
6. Open up the newly created file (ie: double-click on it).
.
7. Right click anywhere on the text and choose "Select All" (or press Ctrl-A).
.
8. Right click anywhere on the text and choose "Copy" (or press Ctrl-C).
.
9. Use a pastebin service such as http://pastebin.com/ to paste your copied DXDiag text (Ctrl-V to paste).
.
10. Link your pastebin to your post.
Also, if you can, go to http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ and download that program. Once downloaded double-click the file which will run the program 'tho you may have to click "yes" on a "are you sure" message. Once you have it up please do a ALT+PRT SCR to take a screenshot, open up Paint (under Accessories in your Start Menu), paste the picture into the application and save it, then attach that as well to a post in this thread.
This will tell us what hardware you are running and maybe get a customer support person or developer to take a look. It will also help the rest of us help try and troubleshoot your issue especially since some of us were thinking of this laptop to buy for STO. ^_^
Normally I'd let this die but you're the only person I know of who actually has a M11x AND STO instead of one or the other. And I figure if I can help you here I can share the link elsewhere with other potential M11x owners.
I dont understand very well all the instructions you made, but i ll try:
http://pastebin.com/XiCwh1tn
THere is the dxDiag saved in pastebin.
Actually i dont like very much publishing screens. But if is necessary i will do.
Another time, thank you very much.
Okay, I'm looking at your DXDIAG now and had a question for you. When you launch STO are you making sure to switch over to the NVIDIA graphics instead of the Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family? That would explain why no anti-aliasing option shows up. I tried finding a walkthru on how to do this but couldn't find one but I'll still look if for some reason it's not in the manual for your notebook.
Also, I did some digging and some people have noted similar behavior with their M11x on other games where the anti-aliasing feature does not come up. How they fixed it was by uninstalling the drivers that the notebook ships with and installing the latest ones. The newer ones can be found here: http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag=&SystemID=ALW_LP_M11X&os=W764&osl=en&catid=&impid=
Now, if you've never uninstalled and reinstalled your drivers before here is a set of steps that details out the process:
1. Copy the new driver onto your desktop where it may be easily located.
2. Go into the Control Panel and under Add/Remove Programs (or Programs and Features in Vista and Win 7) find the driver in the application listing.
3. Left-click on the driver labeled NVIDIA Driver. Once highlighted click on the Uninstall button (or Change/Remove under Windows XP) up at the top which should now start the full uninstall process. When the uninstall completes do NOT reboot your system yet.
4. Look for two other products such as the PhysX driver and Nforce Display Manager and make sure they are both uninstalled as well.
5. Once you have the NVIDIA Drivers, NVIDIA PhysX, and NVIDIA Nview manager removed go ahead and reboot your system.
6. After your system finishes rebooting, and you cancel the "Install driver" messages, you will run the driver that you saved to your desktop; making sure to reboot your system once the new driver has finished installation.
Now, if for some reason updating or re-installing your graphics card drivers does not work please reply back here and there are a couple of other things we can try. I do not wish to overwhelm you with things early on and I do encourage you to ask questions if something does not make sense or if you need clarification on something.
Also, if you have never been here, the NotebookReview website is a good resource for you as well:
Alienware M11x Review Discussion
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5957569
Notebook Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)
http://forum.notebookreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=26
Alienware Notebook forum
http://forum.notebookreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1018
That day was the single worst day in computer history.
I am trying to uninstall old drivers and installing the new ones as you said right now. I ll report.
Thank you.
I reinstalled the last driver from dell "R253896.exe" but i had no results. Antialiasing option is disabled :S
I dont know what to do next. :S
Well, I was hoping it would not come to this since I've not tried this before. Let's try modifying the gameprefs.pref file to see if we can force the anti-aliasing to kick off.
1. Locate the gameprefs.pref file that the game uses which is usually ends with Star Trek Online\Live\Localdata. Now do note that there are two different gameprefs.pref files in your game directory but the one you want is in the Live\localdata folder.
2. Once in there you can open this file by right-click and select Open With... and just select notepad from the list.
3. Once the file is open look for a line titled PrefEntry GfxSettings.Antialiasing, change the number to a 4, and then save the file.
Now, what I am hoping is that the game will auto-switch from Recommended to Custom and force the enabling of the anti-aliasing option. I should also note that there is a way to force anti-aliasing in the driver of most NVIDIA video cards but that is a last option since it can cause more problems than it fixes.
If that still fails to work the best suggestion I have would be to submit a bug inside of the game; making sure to reference this thread in the body of the text.
Hopefully one of the devs will then take a look at it and see if there may be something else that can be done. I'm pretty sure that I've seen the option enabled on another M11x before and that the GPU does support the feature.
I called dell support this morning.
They tell me to get into the bios and Enable the option that let me change between the 2 graphics GPUs.
They dont know why it was enabled.
Now Fn + f6 works fine, and antialiasing is enabled.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
AWESOME news!!!
Do let us know as well how the game performs, what settings you are using, and all that other good stuff. ^_^