Gaming issue and problem with external hard drive

Chris Arnold · 01-16-2013, 09:33 PM

Hi, thanks in advance for any help with the following 2 issues

1. My Seagate 2TB external hard drive is recognized when plugged directly into my laptops USB 3.0 ports and when it's plugged into the USB 2.0 port on my Targus USB 3.0 Superspeed DisplayLink Docking Station. I believe that it's a DisplayLink 3900 series.

2. XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a game that worked on my external monitor through the docking station at the correct resolution yesterday, will not work correctly on it today. It works when the resolution is set to 1920x1080, or when it's set to 1920x1200 but running in windowed mode only, not full screen. The game runs perfectly on the laptop's internal monitor, and it works on the external monitor at correct resolution when the monitor is plugged directly into the laptop. The game either freezes up when I try to correct the games resolution to 1920x1200 when I'm in full screen mode, or it freezes up when it's already set to that resolution in windowed mode and I select full-screen mode. If the settings are set correctly when I start the game, it freezes up immediately when the game starts. It almost locks up the computer, and I have to shut the game down via task manager.

Since yesterday, I've run a windows update, and I specifically remember seeing a displaylink drivers update. I do not know what drivers I had before.

Laptop: Alienware M17X R4, Nvidia GTX680M Graphics card, dedicated graphics card internal to the i7 chps is disabled in the BIOS, Win 7 Ultimate OS

External Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster T240 (1920x1200)

Drivers:
Targus USB3.0 DV Docking Station: 7.0.41409.0
DisplayLink Display Adapter (4306): 7.0.41409.0
Targus USB Audio: 7.0.41612.0
Nvidia GTX 680M: 9.18.13.1090

I am all ears on how I can fix these two issues.

01-16-2013, 09:33 PM	#1
Chris Arnold Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 10	Gaming issue and problem with external hard drive Hi, thanks in advance for any help with the following 2 issues 1. My Seagate 2TB external hard drive is recognized when plugged directly into my laptops USB 3.0 ports and when it's plugged into the USB 2.0 port on my Targus USB 3.0 Superspeed DisplayLink Docking Station. I believe that it's a DisplayLink 3900 series. 2. XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a game that worked on my external monitor through the docking station at the correct resolution yesterday, will not work correctly on it today. It works when the resolution is set to 1920x1080, or when it's set to 1920x1200 but running in windowed mode only, not full screen. The game runs perfectly on the laptop's internal monitor, and it works on the external monitor at correct resolution when the monitor is plugged directly into the laptop. The game either freezes up when I try to correct the games resolution to 1920x1200 when I'm in full screen mode, or it freezes up when it's already set to that resolution in windowed mode and I select full-screen mode. If the settings are set correctly when I start the game, it freezes up immediately when the game starts. It almost locks up the computer, and I have to shut the game down via task manager. Since yesterday, I've run a windows update, and I specifically remember seeing a displaylink drivers update. I do not know what drivers I had before. Laptop: Alienware M17X R4, Nvidia GTX680M Graphics card, dedicated graphics card internal to the i7 chps is disabled in the BIOS, Win 7 Ultimate OS External Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster T240 (1920x1200) Drivers: Targus USB3.0 DV Docking Station: 7.0.41409.0 DisplayLink Display Adapter (4306): 7.0.41409.0 Targus USB Audio: 7.0.41612.0 Nvidia GTX 680M: 9.18.13.1090 I am all ears on how I can fix these two issues. Last edited by Chris Arnold; 01-16-2013 at 09:41 PM.