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    I keep crashing? please help!!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by canada16, Mar 27, 2008.

  1. canada16

    canada16 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey

    I keep playing fear on my laptop and when ever the action gets hard like fighting elma in the first round.. which I cannot beat her, chucking grenades and unloading everything in my arsenal, My XPS 1530 just goes kaput and shuts down.

    Is my computer getting too hot or is there proplems with the drivers ect?

    the 8600GT should be enough to play this game, im really not understanding,

    When I started my computer up again it said windows shut down and would I like to run in safe mode ect..

    Please help, I dont think this XPS is a good gamer, and I am doubting it could even handle tetris to be honest.

    any thoughts has this happened to you
     
    canada16, Mar 27, 2008
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  2. jooooeee

    jooooeee Stealth in disguise

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    Try reinstalling the drivers and even the game I had the same problem on my desktop and that is what fixed it.

    Make sure you have all the patches for the game as well.
     
    jooooeee, Mar 27, 2008
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  3. canada16

    canada16 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey

    Thanks for that will try rolling back drivers and re-installing other ones.

    What patches for fear were do I get those from?

    Thanks so much.

    Im just really new to laptops and games.
     
    canada16, Mar 28, 2008
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