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(Solved) Laptop Lock-up (Gateway FX-7901)
davidbarry
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I recieved a Gateway FX-9701 laptop for christmas, along with Crysis Warhead. I haven't played PC games in a long LONG time so I was pretty happy to be doing so. It ran without problems the first day. Second day, not quite so well. I've been getting lock-ups almost as quickly as the game can load. (anywhere from 1-15 seconds after loading it up.) After the first 2 crashes, I made sure my graphics drivers were up to date, but unfortunately that was not the issue.
My specs:
Intel Centrino 2 quad core q9000 @ 2.00ghz
4 Gigs of Ram
GTX 260M 1GB
I'm running Vista right now, but my free upgrade to Windows 7 is on its way
I'm running the game at 1440x900 (Native resolution for the laptop) with 8x anti-aliasing (I tried out the 8Q setting, and it completely killed the games performance). Initially all graphic settings were set to "gamer" (The auto detect function for the game decided this, so I left it), but I was a little suprised to find I could barely get 20 fps during the down moments in the game. I set everything down to "mainstream", and was getting about 30-40 fps. All of this was on the first day, no lock ups or anything.
Fast forward to right now, and I can't even go through the menus before I'm getting a lock-up, requiring a reboot of the laptop.
I've been out of the high-end pc game market for a long time, and definitely feel a little lost with all of this. My only lead is that the damn laptop is getting too hot and locking up due to that. Not sure if anyone here has had any experience with my laptop, but hopefully someone can help.
TL;DR: New laptop with (what I assumed) were great specs. Ran fine (if a little slower than I expected) for the first day. Locking up everytime I load up crysis. Could be a heat issue?
My specs:
Intel Centrino 2 quad core q9000 @ 2.00ghz
4 Gigs of Ram
GTX 260M 1GB
I'm running Vista right now, but my free upgrade to Windows 7 is on its way
I'm running the game at 1440x900 (Native resolution for the laptop) with 8x anti-aliasing (I tried out the 8Q setting, and it completely killed the games performance). Initially all graphic settings were set to "gamer" (The auto detect function for the game decided this, so I left it), but I was a little suprised to find I could barely get 20 fps during the down moments in the game. I set everything down to "mainstream", and was getting about 30-40 fps. All of this was on the first day, no lock ups or anything.
Fast forward to right now, and I can't even go through the menus before I'm getting a lock-up, requiring a reboot of the laptop.
I've been out of the high-end pc game market for a long time, and definitely feel a little lost with all of this. My only lead is that the damn laptop is getting too hot and locking up due to that. Not sure if anyone here has had any experience with my laptop, but hopefully someone can help.
TL;DR: New laptop with (what I assumed) were great specs. Ran fine (if a little slower than I expected) for the first day. Locking up everytime I load up crysis. Could be a heat issue?
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Regardless of that, it should be noted that Crysis is still a very resource-intensive game, specially on a laptop.
The mouse in question is a logitech MX510.
The funny thing is, I was using my brother's new wireless mouse given to him for christmas (the m305..i think) and it worked fine. There is work to be done to figure out why that's the case, but at least I know why my games were freezing.