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    Envy 14 Hangs while playing TF2

    Discussion in 'HP' started by teflonsuck, Jan 25, 2011.

  1. teflonsuck

    teflonsuck Notebook Guru

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    I'm using ATI graphics, and the only program running is steam and tf2.

    Any solutions?
     
    teflonsuck, Jan 25, 2011
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    spencerp Notebook Evangelist

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    bump I'm interested as well
     
    spencerp, Jan 25, 2011
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    Define hangs.
     
    awdotson, Jan 25, 2011
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  4. Orange Canary

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    Whats hangs?

    Im playing TF2 right now as we speak, I see no graphical issues whatsoever.
     
    Orange Canary, Jan 26, 2011
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  5. Star Forge

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    You might need new drivers?
     
    Star Forge, Jan 26, 2011
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  6. teflonsuck

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    really. like i'll be playing 10mins of the game, then suddenly, it will hang, the music would be on a cycle, and i'll have to force shutdown. ctrl-alt-del works only sometimes
     
    teflonsuck, Jan 26, 2011
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    and how would i install them? i recently bought this envy in december, so it should be updated right?
     
    teflonsuck, Jan 26, 2011
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    Based on anecdotal evidence, I suggest you:

    A) Manually set your system pagefile to 6gb / 1.5x your ram. (Make sure you have enough free hard drive to take it off automatic.)
    B) Underclock your GPU with MSI Afterburner.
     
    neothe0ne, Jan 26, 2011
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  9. Orange Canary

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    I wouldn't underclock the GPU further, I mean its already at a ty 450.

    This hanging problem does not happen with me, I've played TF2 for two hours today and nothings happened.
     
    Orange Canary, Jan 26, 2011
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    It's great that your Envy 14 games fine, but some of us don't share that experience and need solutions. Hence, me offering the only two solutions known on this forum to have solved such system crashes from gaming. (one and/or the other fixed my crashing, (B) fixed someone else's problems.)
     
    neothe0ne, Jan 26, 2011
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    halkyon, Jan 26, 2011
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    I wouldn't radically change your gpu settings, reinstalling drivers is always good but I would consider the likely culprit to be your tf2 install. I would uninstall and re download it. Does the hang always happen around the same time? ie 10 minutes in every time, or can it be in the first minute if you are unlucky.

    If it is habitual based on time, or more than likely, habitual with tempature, then it could be your gpu, but typically when gpu's have heat based issues you get an error, you get a strange screen and that is it, no recovery reboot. So if you are able to get back into windows, i'm thinking install.
     
    awdotson, Jan 26, 2011
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    Agreed with above.
    Before you start messing with your actual computers settings eliminate the option that it could be your game that is causing the problems. Uninstall reinstall. Report back.
     
    spencerp, Jan 26, 2011
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    SOLUTION: it may be your powerplay options if you're on battery. turn it off and thn see if it still hangs. i had that problem too.
     
    prtzlflpz, Jan 26, 2011
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  16. neothe0ne

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    Please learn to read.

    His entire system is crashing. so once again, I suggest to teflonsuck, underclock and manually enlarge the pagefile, then see if you're still crashing.
     
    neothe0ne, Jan 26, 2011
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    He did say that cltr alt delete works sometimes. No need to be rude.
     
    awdotson, Jan 27, 2011
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    how would you do step a?

    thanks alot
     
    teflonsuck, Jan 29, 2011
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    my tf2 isn't hanging anymore after i set the fan speed to 100% :)
     
    teflonsuck, Jan 29, 2011
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