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Alienware suddenly overheating, low FPS, video stutter

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Alienware MX 18 R2
Duel AMD radeon HD 7970m graphics cards

Sounds like a driver problem, right? 

I tried updating the driver, and... I'm not sure if I did. AMD's drivers work by giving you a "catalyst suite." I can never tell if that IS the driver, or if there isn't an update, so they just want to put more stuff on your computer... I dunno, but I installed it. I'm having the same problems. 

Whenever I run World of Warcraft, Sc2, D3, Tf2, Halflife 2, or any other game, my PC immediately starts to blaze. The top-left gets incredibly hot, causing some of the key to actually burn if I leave my finger on them for too long. 

And where WoW normally hits an average of 90 FPS, it drops to 20. Even now, typing this, I can feel my Alienware rising in temperature. 

If someone can help me, (assuming it's a driver problem and you have a link) can you give me the link DIRECTLY to the driver, not the website? That would be fantastic.

I've also noticed both Dell and Alienware have support only for older Alienware laptops. The MX18 isn't even listed in the tags, it's only 15's and 17's. Not even the auto-detect service # works with this particular machine. The driver downloads section on the Alienware site has everything except for machines that run on windows 8 (this one,) and use AMD graphics (also this one.)




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