I regret buying the 7805U FX

[TheLoneWanderer]

I really can't figure this thing out. It plays saints row 3 for 3 hours without any problems, but won't play Halo Custom Edition for five minutes without black screen and crash. It will play mass effect 1/2 with no crashes all through the game, but will not play oblivion for 5 minutes.

Plays fallout new vegas... no problem. Fallout 3 with an occasional crash. Skyrim... not one single crash and I played it for like 6 hours straight! But it can't manage 5 minutes of halo custom edition on bloodgulch. Or any other map.

It makes no sense. I can play halo custom edition with all settings maxed and the fans don't seem to kick on to pump out heat or stress the system and it crashes, but with saints row it sounds like a jet engine and never crashes. I have to dumb saints row down to make it look like it was being played on a PS2 but it never crashes.

I really should have saved the money I spent on this thing. $300 was to good a deal.


Only thing I can figure is some kind of conflict with older games running on this things intel centrino 2. Newer games seem to run perfectly fine.

[StormJumper]

Originally Posted by TheLoneWanderer

I really can't figure this thing out. It plays saints row 3 for 3 hours without any problems, but won't play Halo Custom Edition for five minutes without black screen and crash. It will play mass effect 1/2 with no crashes all through the game, but will not play oblivion for 5 minutes.

Plays fallout new vegas... no problem. Fallout 3 with an occasional crash. Skyrim... not one single crash and I played it for like 6 hours straight! But it can't manage 5 minutes of halo custom edition on bloodgulch. Or any other map.

It makes no sense. I can play halo custom edition with all settings maxed and the fans don't seem to kick on to pump out heat or stress the system and it crashes, but with saints row it sounds like a jet engine and never crashes. I have to dumb saints row down to make it look like it was being played on a PS2 but it never crashes.

I really should have saved the money I spent on this thing. $300 was to good a deal.


Only thing I can figure is some kind of conflict with older games running on this things intel centrino 2. Newer games seem to run perfectly fine.

Ok so have you clean out the dust in both the CPU and GPU locations? I would seem that you have a overheating problem related to dust on the cooling fins and need to reapply the heatsink compound to improve the heat transfer. Also that Centrino 2 won't mustard what games your playing and it's requirements if it was Duo 2 core I can say it would handle it. But you will need a T9300 or X9000 CPU if you want to play those higher games. Granted you either have 512Meg or 1Gig of GPU RAM but having a faster CPU will prevent bottle necking when gaming performance it needed. Having a Large GPU memory is good but when your CPU is slow it will tie up the rest of the computer.

[TheLoneWanderer]

Originally Posted by StormJumper

Ok so have you clean out the dust in both the CPU and GPU locations? I would seem that you have a overheating problem related to dust on the cooling fins and need to reapply the heatsink compound to improve the heat transfer. Also that Centrino 2 won't mustard what games your playing and it's requirements if it was Duo 2 core I can say it would handle it. But you will need a T9300 or X9000 CPU if you want to play those higher games. Granted you either have 512Meg or 1Gig of GPU RAM but having a faster CPU will prevent bottle necking when gaming performance it needed. Having a Large GPU memory is good but when your CPU is slow it will tie up the rest of the computer.

Yes, of course I clean it. Once a month. I can't afford a new CPU right now.

But none of that explains why it can play saints row 3 for hours and hours reliably, and skyrim for 6 hours straight yet can't play 5 minutes of Halo custom edition on a small map. Driving a car with nitrous on in saints row 3 = no problem, some frame loss of course, but nary a crash...

less then five minutes walking around a map in halo custom edition = black screen and system crash.

My temps are always very low. Even playing saints row 3 I never seem to go above 60 degrees. Usually it hovers around 50+ for most games about 38 when I'm not doing anything.

Like I said, it seems to have a lot of problems with older games. Newer ones seem to be fine. But without powermizer, it would crash if someone in japan in a basement farted.

[StormJumper]

hmm...so did you update those older games after installing them as well?

Halo: Custom Edition

Have you read this as well??? This might or might not help.....a little searching seems they are talking about bugs your experiencing or not....but that would be a good place to start....

[TANWare]

For now Oblivion has known black screen with Nvidia 9 series GPU's you have to go to the game people for that as it is not just gateways systems experiencing these. The Halo mod apparently in the PC version has bugs and other issues so it is hard to blame the system until those issues are all resolved.

[TheLoneWanderer]

all games are up to date, oblivion fix was tried, it had no effect.

I timed halo CE. I left it alone for 5 minutes, and it crashes with NOTHING going on, not even moving. I was making a sandwich when I heard the loud buzzing sound that always comes when I get the black screen and crash.

So, i just let the spartan stand there doing nothing, and the computer couldn't handle it.

I then played saints row 3 for an hour and a half... no problems. I even turned some settings UP and no crash. My temps didn't go above 60.

Halo Custom edition is such a simple game this system should have absolutely no problem running it for as long as I leave it going. But won't even go 5 minutes.

[StormJumper]

Originally Posted by TANWare

For now Oblivion has known black screen with Nvidia 9 series GPU's you have to go to the game people for that as it is not just gateways systems experiencing these. The Halo mod apparently in the PC version has bugs and other issues so it is hard to blame the system until those issues are all resolved.

I kinda figure that was the problem was software related and not the particular laptop or hardware causing the problem. This was based on the fact that two other software they ran had no problem with the laptop and laptop GPU from the OP reply.

[TANWare]

The oblivion fix, as it is called, still does not resolve everyone issues. There needs to be an "Official" fix released as in a true patch or version. HCE has known issues. I am sorry you can not accept what is well known and published issues. END of ALL responces................

[TheLoneWanderer]

I'm not on the blame the game bandwagon because that's impossible. Are you telling me most games are just so poorly made they won't run on this machine?

I get that there are conflicts, but when I leave a game sitting with nothing going on and it still crashes, it doesn't make sense that an update would fix it especially when I've already applied the most recent halo CE update from 2009.

I would buy this game glitch explanation if if happened after hours of playing, not five minutes into it every single time.

[TheLoneWanderer]

So I even changed the windows theme to classic, and put halo CE to compatability with win 98, 5 minutes and crash.

There's no emoticon for how I feel about this machine...