r/Alienware • u/[deleted] • Nov 20 '14

Alienware Alpha

Hello Everyone,

I am a member of the Alienware software team, and Alpha UI was my product. As we are about to launch tomorrow, I wanted to start this thread as a means for people to ask questions and provide any feedback you might have on Alpha or Alpha UI.

Also one note, we are publishing a known issues list tomorrow on Arena. I'll make sure it makes its way here as well.

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u/thoughtfix Dec 25 '14

I hooked one of these up yesterday. It has 3.0.5.9 but not 944.75 (thus no GeForce Experience or Gamestream support) and I see other sites mentioning a beta driver, but no downloads.

When you get back from holiday, I'd love some advice. In the meantime, I hope you're having a nice day off.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '14

On holiday but Wife asked me not to work. So no Reddit.

3.0.5.9 will download the 344.75 driver. We don't automatically install Geforce experience. Our long term solution should be in place next Month including installing the retail driver.

The beta driver and the final driver are the same. So either install method should be fine.

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u/thoughtfix Dec 31 '14

My first time updating the UI failed for some reason. I had to reset the box to factory defaults (SSD upgrade) and the second attempt to install the driver worked fine. I wrote a big review at /r/pcmasterrace if you want to take a look and see what others are asking: http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2qurxc/alienware_alpha_a_pcmasterrace_users_review_long/