Abnormal Program termination (C++ Error)

[Hellzer]

Hello, I have a small problem:

I'm on Alienware m15x (Which basically sucks)

And it used to run spring fine, but now, after a system reset, it does not work anymore (I suspect an outdated driver, but thanks to Alienware, I can't really update said driver.)

Right now, when I try to play a game it eventually shows an error message describing an "Abnormal program termination" (C++)

Included, my infolog.txt

Thanks in advance.

[aegis]

thanks to Alienware, I can't really update said driver

why not?

[Hellzer]

Well, I can either use their functional drivers (From their website) or use the one from nvidia, which have like, a 1/5 of being compatible.

But I just installed the latest Nvidia one and it -seems- to be working.

I'll post news as they come.
EDIT: Nope, it failed.




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[aegis]

you might need to use a driver modder, or go to dell for your alienware drivers

[Hellzer]

That's great, Dell doesn't even show my laptop how it is, although this is the right model number (M15x) It's physically not the same!

Also, they don't even have support for my graphic card.

Edit: Link: http://support.dell.com/support/downloa ... id=&impid=

[aegis]

did you use the service tag? there are two m15x revisions
you have a core 2 duo and my m15x has an i7 (and looks like the one on dell).. totally different laptops

you might have a chance with modding the official nvidia drivers (changing a value in an inf file to make it recognize your card) as well, what does the card's properties say?

[Hellzer]

I'm gonna try that I guess, but I'm a total noob when it comes to editing values related to a graphic card driver..?

Can you help me a bit on that subject?

[jK]

Try NVIDIA's drivers with a revision number greater than 256,
they finally started to unify their desktop/notebook drivers.

It seems they accepted that their clients don't have such a strict driver policy as themselves.

[Hellzer]

Well, the driver I tried yesterday was 257.21 and that didn't work..

EDIT: Yeah, well I went on their (Alienware) website to download the "latest" driver update.

Well, it's from ~2008 or something and is v176.37

Hey, it's just around ~81 versions behind the current one!
/sarcasm