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David Grogan
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2011-11-04 19:54:53 UTC  |  Edited by: David Grogan
xxanjoahir wrote:
Has anyone got a solution to how hot the GUI gets when playing eve?

I have all my setting turned down, and eve is the only game that causes me to BSOD with a stop 0x00000124 issue.

all other games run fine, i have been plagued with this issue since the dominion patch... Its got ridiculous lately.

Idle temp. 60 degrees, active in game temp 80 degrees.

Its been back to the shop and they gave me a new hard drive saying i had an issue with that, since having the new hard drive the problem has persisted.

I have a Mobility Radeon HD 4500/5100 series all up to date drivers...

cheers,


GUI = Graphical User Interface - This is software and thus cannot get hot

i think u mean GPU

GPU = Graphics Processing Unit - This is hardware and yes Eve Online can make it run hot.... But it really depends on the Graphics card and how fail the heaksink and cooling fan is.

Nvidia are notorious for making great graphics cards with awful cooling methods. Buy a Zalman heatsink and fan suited for your graphics card and dont forget the thermal paste either. - this works great on my old Nvidia XFX 8500gt graphics card.


if your card is an ATI gcard then Zalman also make good heatsink and fans for those too.

If your gcard is intel well your out of luck.... Intel make rubbish GPU's

laptops also suck for overheating

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Annawynn
Federation Operations Division
#22 - 2011-11-04 20:22:32 UTC
Your laptop is pushing the bottom end of the system requirements and probably isn't really designed for extended gaming. If the air intake is located on the bottom of the laptop, try propping it up a CM or two to help improve the airflow a bit. An active laptop cooler could also help, but only if the issue is proper airflow into the cooling (you're SOL if the cooling setup itself isn't up to par).

Depending on where you're from a new computer can be assembled for fairly cheap. Here's a demo I put together of a cheap computer (<$300 USD) running the Incarna CQ with almost all settings set to max.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bikN4etytmw
T' Elk
Strategically Bad
Goonswarm Federation
#23 - 2011-11-04 20:29:09 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Melts your GUI?

As in, your buttons and drop-down menus start to sag and drip? P

Damn, beat me to it :(

~Badposter since FOOOOREEEEEVAAAAAR~ I come back after 2 years to THIS? ~Now 4 years apparently
Glory Hound
No Glory in Violence
#24 - 2011-11-04 20:43:54 UTC
Generally if you are seeing a BSOD it means your computer is not sharing memory very well with the other things in your laptop that use it. Your video ram will not have its own memory unless you splurged for Alienware.
I am betting you never upgraded your memory and are still trying to run with the 1-2 GB ram it came with. Spend some cash and get upgraded to 4GB (or more if you run 64bit).
KFenn
State War Academy
Caldari State
#25 - 2011-11-04 20:44:05 UTC
Chribba wrote:
for laptops, F10 is your friend unloads a lot of the GPU use.

/c


You play... with the map open?

Commanding Officer of the Treacle Tart Brigade
Kengutsi Akira
Doomheim
#26 - 2011-11-04 20:47:28 UTC
Nova Fox wrote:
GPU you mean.

CoD which one? If its CoD I then of course its going to run fine.

The fact its a laptop though means you need to either upgrade the laptop or get a real computer. EVEs minium requirements have been creeping up over the years no longer relying on technology 10 years old.


Lol I know someone that runs on a PC built in the late 90s

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Yes
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