***ENVY 14 Gaming Lounge***

[Fat Dragon]

didja turn off catalyst AI? just making sure.

I didn't know I should. It's off now, but I won't have a chance to test until after work, and that's gonna have to contend with the wonky driver update and the post F.12 crashing of the Witcher (see Paradise Lost thread).

Though now that I think of it, the Witcher did crash one time before the update, but it was over a week before the update, and it was after 2-3 hours of playing on my lap, rather than 2-20 minutes of playing on a wireframe shelving unit with a floor fan blowing at me and the computer.

[MagusDraco]

mighta just gotten to hot on your lap.

*shrugs*

needs more testing

[Fat Dragon]

I got 10 minutes in before I had to leave for work. It ran fine (no noticeable difference from Catalyst AI off, same framerates, same stuttering, etc), until I approached a certain cutscene trigger, where it crashed at the end of the cutscene. Three of my crashes have been on this cutscene (first time in the middle, second and third at the end) now, and the other post-F.12 was also during a cutscene, though a different one.

It definitely looks like the cutscene renderer might have something to do with it (or corruptions in those particular scenes), but I had no trouble with cutscenes before F.12, and the cutscene that caused three of the crashes has crashed in two different spots. I've verified the game's cache before (though it's gone from an external HDD and back in the meantime), so I wouldn't think it would be the result of corrupt files, but I suppose it's possible.

Anyway, the moral of the story is that troubleshooting software issues is a horrible, un-fun activity, since there are so many damn things that could have gone wrong.

[Loki0wn]

First, let me apologize if this has been covered before. I used the search function and was unable to find any answers to my problem:

I recently got my Envy 14 and reinstalled the OS. I have it currently running at the 10.7a drivers and switchable graphics is functioning fine; however, whenever I attempt to use the GPU clocking tool found on the first page of the website, my computer does a hard freeze. Every time. The ATI card is the one that is active and the drivers are up to date. What can I do to get this straightened out?

Thanks!

[HTWingNut]

Holy cow. I just got done running a round of Bad Company 2 and CPU reached 90C!!! This was not overclocked either. Last few times I ran it, it didn't exceed 80C. I updated the BIOS to F.12. Wonder if that has anything to do with it. The fans don't seem as loud, so maybe they tuned that, but CPU is still way too hot.

GPU was only 82C, previously it wouldn't breach 79C. Room temp is the same as it always has been.

[protonxl]

kinda hot GPU

[MagusDraco]

Holy cow. I just got done running a round of Bad Company 2 and CPU reached 90C!!! This was not overclocked either. Last few times I ran it, it didn't exceed 80C. I updated the BIOS to F.12. Wonder if that has anything to do with it. The fans don't seem as loud, so maybe they tuned that, but CPU is still way too hot.

GPU was only 82C, previously it wouldn't breach 79C. Room temp is the same as it always has been.

Try downgrading to the old bios version (you can do that, right?) and see if it runs cooler again.


either way *stays far away from F.12 and the new hp drivers...for whatever reason*


Mine isn't broke (besides that hard-drive) no reason to go around changing things.

[Skhope]

ughhh i updated my bios to F.12 this afternoon didnt try SC2 afterwards..guess I will now

p.s htwingnut you ordered the warranty from costco right for the Envy 14? And everything was in order..I am going to order mine tomorrow I think

EDIT: did a game of 1v1 in SC2 everything seems ok GPU/CPU got to 71C max temps which is around what it got before I updated to F.12 BIOS

[shaolinx]

First, let me apologize if this has been covered before. I used the search function and was unable to find any answers to my problem:

I recently got my Envy 14 and reinstalled the OS. I have it currently running at the 10.7a drivers and switchable graphics is functioning fine; however, whenever I attempt to use the GPU clocking tool found on the first page of the website, my computer does a hard freeze. Every time. The ATI card is the one that is active and the drivers are up to date. What can I do to get this straightened out?

Thanks!

what program are u using to overclock and bios ver?

[L3vi]

The only tool that works is MSI Afterburner. AMD GPU Clock tool causes the computer to freeze, and other programs just don't work.