Friday, February 26, 2010

Piriform updates CCleaner to v2.29

Piriform updated CCleaner to v2.29 on 2/25.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

DPC Latency Revisited - Part 2

As all M17x R1 owners are aware, the recent workaround posted Friday on the Dell blog did not fully resolve the DPC Latency issue. I was fortunate enough to speak with Alienware's Director of Engineering, Patrick Desbois, on Sunday concerning this. As it turned out, Patrick had a visit to the Bay Area scheduled for Monday and he was kind enough to set some time aside to meet with me.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Command Center updated to v2.5.44.0

Today Dell released an update for the Alienware Command Center. This update is the first which combines all three models (M15x, M17x and M17xR2).

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Resident Evil 5 Benchmark demystified... FPS Drop FIXED

Notebookreview.com member Kade Storm approached me with an interesting issue. The Resident Evil 5 benchmark as some of you know has issues with Area 3 and Area 4. A very low FPS drop shows up in Area 3 and also slightly impacts Area 4.