1. Turn off AERO. I'm having some success doing that since it frees up the GPU and RAM for your game.
2. Search the forums for your game. Sometimes you find someone has hacked the Nvidia driver for your laptop.
In closing the missing details from your post stop me from looking for you.
Bob
Hey
Nvidia does not come with the correct drivers for the DOW to see it happen. I know there are lots of threads about this on the web. The thing is, almost every one of them recommends downloading the driver from the web, but I have a Laptop (Dell Inspiron 1420 with Nvidia 8400 graphics card) and the drivers directly from Nvidia won't work. I need to go the dell site, but the one that is there is outdated and fails to work.
Does anybody have any solutions?
Thanks!
Aet

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