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    Starcraft 2 Graphics Card Issues

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by roemer21, Jul 27, 2010.

  1. roemer21

    roemer21 Notebook Geek

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    Alright, so I took the dive and got SC2 this morning. The game loads up and runs fine until I either try to start the campaign or get into multiplayer games. Sometimes it crashes 2 seconds in, and other times it takes a few minutes. There is no error message, it just crashes and returns to the windows screen.

    My system specs are as follows:

    HP dm4t-1000
    i5-430 processor
    3GB DDR3 Ram
    Windows 7 - 64 bit
    Ati 5450 GPU w/ switchable intel graphics
    directx is up to date as of 7/27

    I have tried using the ati card and onboard card. The onboard runs longer, but still about 10 minutes or so into the game it crashes.

    My question is... will I be able to play this game? Has anyone else experienced this? I'm sure it's a problem with the drivers. Any idea what drivers I should have installed?

    Suggestions or help here would be so appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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    roemer21, Jul 27, 2010
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  2. rschauby

    rschauby Superfluously Redundant

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    Minimum Specs on The box require a 128-bit PCI-E GPU. Do you meet those requirements?
     
    rschauby, Jul 27, 2010
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  3. roemer21

    roemer21 Notebook Geek

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    Sure do. I smoke those requirements. The 5450 is a solid graphics card, but I think the drivers just aren't that great.

    Any suggestions would be nice.
     
    roemer21, Jul 27, 2010
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  4. rschauby

    rschauby Superfluously Redundant

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    Try different versions of drivers, the newest being the 10.7. Go through a few of them and see if any version gets you better performance. Play with the settings both in game, and with Ati CCC as well.
     
    rschauby, Jul 27, 2010
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  5. Brendanmurphy

    Brendanmurphy Your Worst Nightmare

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    5450 is no solid card. You will be lucky to run the game at a mix of medium and low. Mostly low. Its a low end card, only 1 step up from integrated.
     
    Brendanmurphy, Jul 27, 2010
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  6. MahmoudDewy

    MahmoudDewy Gaming Laptops Master Race!

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    According to Blizzard:

    128 MB PCIe NVIDIA® GeForce® 6600 GT or ATI Radeon® 9800 PRO video card or better

    so its 128 MB not 128-bit :eek:
     
    MahmoudDewy, Jul 27, 2010
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  7. IIIM3

    IIIM3 Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Thats really strange. I suggest updating to 10.7. They should fix the problem if it is a driver issue.
     
    IIIM3, Jul 28, 2010
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  8. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    the 5450 is fine. obviously it's not the fastest but you should be able to run the game with a good frame rate at lower settings. whatever- besides the point

    have you tried running other games?
     
    masterchef341, Jul 28, 2010
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