@Hellish656 Your graphics drivers are quite old, and Dell doesn't offer new ones. But Nvidia has a newer one you can try. However, it's a good idea to do some housekeeping first. Dell does offer a BIOS update for your laptop, marked urgent:
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/inspiron-15-3542-laptop/drivers
If you want, you can also use the Dell Update Application to check for other updates. Once you're done, restart and then run a couple of basic checks on your Windows system files. Here's how:
- Hit Windows key-X
- Choose either “PowerShell (Administrator)” or “Command prompt (Administrator),” whichever option is offered
- Inside the window that appears, copy and paste “DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth” without quotes into the window, and enter
- The system will start validating soon. If it throws an error, please list it here
- After it reaches 100%, hit Windows key-X again
- Again, choose “PowerShell (Administrator)” or “Command prompt (Administrator)”
- Inside the window, copy and paste “sfc /scannow” without quotes into the window, and enter
- Post the message you receive here
Restart and download and install the newest driver from Dell for your graphics card:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/145874/en-us
Restart again before trying to play.
If you still see the black dots, please again switch among fullscreen, windowed fullscreen, and windowed modes, just to check. Let me know how it goes.