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    laptop gets BSOD when playing Warcraft 3

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Castel, Feb 21, 2008.

  1. Castel

    Castel Newbie

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    I have an Acer Aspire 4720, i can play CS and NBA Live 06 just fine on it but it crashes after about 10-30 mins when playing Warcraft III. I'm pretty sure my laptop is fairly powerful enough to run it so what seems to be the problem? I suspect it may have something to do about my CPU or graphics card overheating but i'm not sure.

    Here are relevant laptop specs btw.

    Intel Core 2 Duo T520 1.5 GHZ
    2 GB RAM
    a built in graphics card with 384 RAM.
     
    Castel, Feb 21, 2008
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  3. Castel

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    I wasn't able to take note since my laptop restarted after a few seconds. it did mention something about a memory dump. i looked around and google and seems a lot of people has this problem too.
     
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  5. Castel

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    my video card is a crappy x3100, lol. i don't think there are driver updates for it. i still suspect overheating though...
     
    Castel, Feb 21, 2008
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    Hmm. . . perhaps, just thinking a crazy though., your cpu might be too fast to run the game properly. Some people have problems running warcraft III on other systems. The solution is to slow down your processor using dosbox. I don't know if it will help in your particular situation seeing as I don't know what the bsod says but it is worth a shot. If you aren't familiar with it dosbox it is a program that allows modern(relative term) computers to run OLD games that will not work on them because the processors are too fast. It is very stable and well supported.

    Give it a shot.
    http://www.dosbox.com
     
    Sryii, Feb 22, 2008
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  7. crash

    crash NBR Assassin

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    See this guide on monitoring your notebook temps to see if your laptop is overheating while playing.

    However, I don't think your laptop is overheating because you can play those other games fine.
     
    crash, Feb 22, 2008
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    i had a problem something like this, counterstrike would run fine but whenever i played generals it would BSOD in a few minutes. Mine turned out to be corrupt memory.

    try memtest 86+
     
    Fittersman, Feb 22, 2008
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    Yea, use orev's guide on using memtest 86+.
     
    crash, Feb 22, 2008
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    i had similar problem. Turned out to be EAX2 on. Change the sound settings to Miles 3D Emulation.
     
    HexiumVII, Mar 22, 2008
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