Has anyone with a Dual Core managed to get MOH:A to work properly yet?

My spec:

Dell XPS M1710
2.16ghz Core 2 Duo
Vista 32 bit home
GeForce Go 7950GTX (running 163.75 M6)
2 gig RAM
120gb 5400rpm

My problem:

I bought MOH:Airbourne on tuesday, and I cant for the life of me get it to work without looking like a slide show as oppose to a near £2k laptop.

1) I have browsed various forums for answers and keep getting mixed reports and recommendations

2) Ive downloaded god knows how many different versions of NVDIA forceware drivers, and when I do find one that works (the one im currently using) without making the game choppy, it just shuts down after about 2 minutes from overheating.

3) Ive tried running it on one processor, but as you could imagine the gaming experience is poor and still slightly choppy.

has anyone with the same setup managed to get this game to work? I am on the brink of buying an external HD to stick all my stuff on, and then putting XP on this computer.

How can we be guaranteed that SP1 will fix the millions of problems that gamers are experiencing whilst using Vista?

 

Oh by the way, I spoke to EA on the phone, and they basically said that MOH:A is designed to be used with single core systems - so they're effectively writing themselves out of the market with this game. Well done EA, dropped a knacker there.

 

with that statement about single core, they more than likely meant that the game isn't designed to utilize both cores. but if there is a problem with 2 cores you can turn off one of the processors in the bios and see if that may help out.

also, since heat was an issue with the crashing you may want to get a laptop cooler to circulate cool air underneath your laptop or consider undervolting your system to cut back on heat. the least you could do is raise the back of you laptop a bit to allow fresh air underneath if you have no other options.

 

ive raised the back up to get a bit of circulation going but to no avail. how do i undervolt?

Ive tried setting it to one core in the affinity but the game runs choppy still.

 

the demo works perfect on my system so youre having some issue unrelated to the core 2 duo

 

"the demo" being the operative word..

Im not alone in this issue either - http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=179053

seems to be UT engine that XPS systems dont like.

 

Actually they lied just to get you off the phone. Typical EA.

 

W*ankers arent they... I knew that wouldnt be the case.

So how do I get this game to work?? it seems other users with the same setup as me (core 2 duo, 7950gtx, vista) are having issues with unreal tournament engine based games like rainbow six vegas etc.

 

you may want to try these windows hotfixes. one of them relates directly to bf

you can't get them from windows update

http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_vista_hotfixes.html

 

is that not just the same as the forceware thats available from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/drivers ?

 

Played, beat the game at 1920x1200 resolution, max settings (little choppy but completely playable for me). I was completely oblivious there were problems with this game because it ran perfectly fine for me.

 

No, he's saying to download and install the hotfixes listed on Nvidia's site regarding Windows Vista. They fix some important issues regarding Vista's functionality.

Though, I thought Vista already incorporated them into their Windows Update?

 

my setup is:
c2d 2ghz
3gb ram
100gb 7200rpm hdd
8600gt 512mb
Win XP pro sp2
MOHA plays like a charm.....maybe a vista issue?
get nvidia monitor to check your gpu frecuencies...maybe powermizer is not working ok and underclocks the gpu.
what about other games? or 3dmark score?

 

plays fine on my rig.

although the linear gameplay is too boring.