27-04-2007, 22:09 | #11 |
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My supplier offered me a laptop with integrated intel card at first. I read some tests on it and decided against it and started looking for better models.
ON the whole I've been pleasantly surprised by most graphics cards I;ve had on my laptops. My last one had shared memory but it ran most games fine on only 512MB RAM. I even played WoW on it, worked fine unless you entered a very populated zone cause that would cause some freeze ups when both graph card and CPU were claiming memory. Just finished making recovery discs (cheap bastards at HP stopped including those, Dell at least has an option to buy some), makes me long to the days when laptops came with decent service Installing office now, games after that.
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28-04-2007, 09:52 | #12 |
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Installed vanilla Civ4 and it works like a charm, fast even and this is the out of the box unpatched version as well. I remember that being slow as hell when i 1st played it on my old laptop. Somehow I lost my Warlords CD, got the case but CD isnt in there, so I havent been able to install that.
I'm running the game on 1680*1050 and though its still fast all text is rather small
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28-04-2007, 12:03 | #14 |
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I;m not too worried about it. Saw Warlords for 5 euros in a local store so if I dont find it quickly I'll get a new one this afternoon.
That's the proside when a game doesnt achieve sales goals, you can replace your copy cheaply.
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Well, this laptop is just a year old and suddenly suffering from weird freezes after log on. At first every other log on would results in a freeze and then friday all log ons would result in a freeze. So today I finally had to time to figure out what would cause this. MOst probably windows automated updated service. I disabled wireless lan and BINGO, normal log on. So now I can copy my files and start a new install.
I wanna kick Bill G in the nads for causing all this crap.
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11-05-2008, 23:02 | #17 |
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I've read about that crap, apparently it's SP3 causing problems.
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for now I just disabled the associated service and hopeflly that will get thru the next week. Man, do I hate this.
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Uhoh, I saw the SP3-update flash by a couple of days ago, but haven't restarted since. Perhaps I shouldn't do so at all.
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There is a problem with XP-SP3 and AMD PC's, this link summarises it pretty well:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Win...-SP3,5334.html HP was mentioned specifically for doing this, but other OEM's have most likely done it as well. |