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    Gateway NX860XL and games

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by DivinX, Nov 14, 2009.

  1. DivinX

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    I have a Gateway NX860XL, with a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS graphics card. Oh, and I have Vista Home Premium, OS. (I don't know if the OS changes anything..)

    I've been playing games like Aion (for instance), and now whenever I play for x-amount of time (say 15-20 minutes?) the game freezes, the interfaces dissappear, and from then on until I reboot the game it's constant lag.. virtually unplayable.

    I'm told these are symptoms of an overheated graphics card..
    But these symptoms seem to get worse, over time. (i.e. - Aion never use to crash like this)

    Any suggestions for what I could do, or possible explanations as to what's going on?
     
    DivinX, Nov 14, 2009
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