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    Max Payne & Civilization V Gods & Heros Crash frequently with 7970m

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Nick11, Jul 3, 2012.

  1. Nick11

    Nick11 Notebook Consultant

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    Folks, as the title states I have a Clevo P150EM with a 7970m. Although I love the laptop and happy with the performance of the card more or less, the frequent crashes in some of my favorite games have just become too much.

    Civilization V Gods & Heros - I have to play in Directx 9 mode or face constant crashes..

    Max Payne 3 - Frequent crashes have tried everything to solve it with no luck...


    Anyone else having these problems?
     
    Nick11, Jul 3, 2012
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  2. Hurricane9

    Hurricane9 Notebook Consultant

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    For the Civ V issue, perhaps you can try updating your DirectX
     
    Hurricane9, Jul 4, 2012
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  3. c0xad

    c0xad Notebook Enthusiast

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    Not working i have the same Issue in Civ5 , DirectX 11, Crashes...
    MaxPayne Working just fine here...
     
    c0xad, Aug 1, 2012
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  4. superspeed27

    superspeed27 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have the DX11 crash for Civ V too...it worked fine until I updated to the most recent AMD driver ): but now most of my other games work better so...I guess I'll suffer for now. And I've tried updating DX11 and turned off the intro video and all the other common advice I could find to no avail.
     
    superspeed27, Aug 1, 2012
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  5. spettow

    spettow Notebook Consultant

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    with stock drivers, i was facing crashing problems with max payne 3...
    with leshcat 12.6 drivers, these crashing problems stopped.

    Anyway, i recommend DX9 for max payne, because with DX11 FPS drops a lot
     
    spettow, Aug 1, 2012
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  6. Hurricane9

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    With stock drivers, I never have crashing problems with Civ V
     
    Hurricane9, Aug 1, 2012
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  7. alaskajoel

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    Same here...stock drivers are okay for civ v. Anything else crashes.
     
    alaskajoel, Aug 1, 2012
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