Hello, I solved the issue last night by downclocking the GTX 880M with MSI Afterburner. I just pulled the Core Clock slider to -135 MHz. Since then I had no more driver stops. Also other games using the Unreal Engine are not crashing anymore. // o/, this is addressed to serious tech geeks and/o…

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Yes, that’s my old post. But DX9 did not fix it and the problem still exists and had become more worst.

Looking over all the Google results, this seems to have been a problem on a few machines since 2012 or 2013. Sadly, nowhere did I find an actual fix, just work arounds.

i have had the same problem with an older M17 and GTX 330M. found no solution ; ( i guess it is the Alienware driver for the Cards, but to install another driver brought other problems for me.

I found a solution short before I wanted to trash my A17. I am downclocking the GTX 880M with MSI Afterburner by setting Core Clock to 0 MHz. Now everything works stable. No crashes since yesterday. Unbelievable that this took finally 2 years to figure out. I looks like the GTX 880M is initially ove…

[SOLVED] Serious freezes with Alienware 17 and GTX 880M

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Presidente_Gallente (Presidente Gallente) November 6, 2017, 8:00pm 5

Thanks for your effort to help. I will file a bug report now.

Anyone else running EVE on a A17 R1 with GTX 880M?

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[SOLVED] Serious freezes with Alienware 17 and GTX 880M

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