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    NP86662 / Vista 64-Bit / Frame Freezing During...

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by JKrulicki, Mar 29, 2010.

  1. JKrulicki

    JKrulicki Newbie

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    ... Diablo 2 LoD!

    The game will pause for 4-6 seconds randomly during play. This causes annoying, unneccessary deaths. Can someone advise a compadibility mode to run this game in, windowed mode, on this system?

    Next, when it pauses, the hard drive screams. It revs up to a very noticeable volume and produces slight vibrations on the unit. Can someone explain this and/or provide a solution?

    This does not happen on any of the other games or applications I run on this machine.

    Thanks much,

    Justin
     
    JKrulicki, Mar 29, 2010
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  2. roymathieu

    roymathieu Notebook Consultant

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    A good place to start would be to monitor your temperatures, check whether your HDD or GPU temperatures are too high (> 60C for HDD, > 90C for GPU)
     
    roymathieu, Mar 29, 2010
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    Hi Roy,

    I have been told that my idling at 59-60C for HDD is normal for the NP8662 without cooling. With a fan, it goes down to 52-53 ish.

    My GPU core never gets above 85 degrees unless i am sucking in hot air at a bad location.

    Thanks for the response. Anything else I can look into? It seems to only occur with this specific game.
     
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  4. roymathieu

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    hmmm your HDD temps would be ok if they were under heavy load, but they seem pretty high for idling temps

    i know some of blizzard games tend to be very HDD intensive, what kind of temps are you getting when the game pauses?
     
    roymathieu, Mar 30, 2010
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    An odd-ish question, but how much RAM do you have? The fact that it's accessing your HDD when you freeze seems to imply that the freezing is related to disk access, so I'm wondering if maybe Diablo's running out of RAM and going for the page file when that happens. Or similarly, it can't load an entire level into RAM, and thus has to go get the rest of it.
     
    Judicator, Mar 30, 2010
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    Do you have the latest patch (released a few days ago) and are your drivers up to date?
     
    Tblazer13, Mar 30, 2010
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    Which video drivers are you using?
     
    ettornio, Mar 31, 2010
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