***ENVY 14 Gaming Lounge***

[MishaFashionista]

Is it normal for my temperatures on tz00 to be 100'C because I feel like my computer is overheating more now for some off reason. My computer idling now is at 84'c. But when I play diablo 3 it's about 100 or more.

[MagusDraco]

no I don't think it should be idling at 84 celsius. Mine still idles around 47 or so for tz00

[MagusDraco]

oh hey yeah diablo 3 beta worked well at max (AA off) at 1280x720. I did occasionally run into the "oh god my processor is at 89-92 celsius god damn blizzard you're the only people to pull this off" problem

[Thumpybass]

Hey all, new member here.

I've had my Envy for about 2 years, and I've only recently noticed something. I think my GPU is dying. For most games, even when I max it out for a test, the quality is barely above minimum, and it's most apparent in textures. Here's an example from STALKER of what I'm talking about.



Shadow of Chernobyl's not the best looking game out there, but I KNOW the ground isn't supposed to look like that. Especially not with a texture pack.

Any help for a forum newbie?

[Mike415]

Hey all, new member here.

I've had my Envy for about 2 years, and I've only recently noticed something. I think my GPU is dying. For most games, even when I max it out for a test, the quality is barely above minimum, and it's most apparent in textures. Here's an example from STALKER of what I'm talking about.

[IM]http://i50.tinypic.com/2m2vo9h.jpg[/IMG]

Shadow of Chernobyl's not the best looking game out there, but I KNOW the ground isn't supposed to look like that. Especially not with a texture pack.

Any help for a forum newbie?

Are you running on the Intel GPU or just have your settings set really low in the games?

[MagusDraco]

Did you set the mipmap setting to maximum performance in the catalyst control center? That may be causing your low res textures.

alternatively you messed up the texture pack or double alternatively the drivers are corrupted somehow (but that'd make giant texture triangles spanning off into infinity).

..or maybe your gpu is dying. I'd first check the mipmap stuff and if that's not the case I'd try reinstalling your drivers.

[cirial]

Anyone having issues running Diablo 3 on the 12.4 drivers? The opening movie becomes all pixelated, and then it just stutters, stops and runs really slow.. is this game just too much for my old Envy 1xxx?

[MagusDraco]

no but supposedly the 12.4 drivers has some issues with diablo 3 depending on the card.

clean everything out and then install 12.3 and wait for 12.5/12.4a

[cirial]

Magus, whats the easiest way to clean everything out, then installing stock 10.8 switchable drivers?

Would just running 12.3 be a problem if it works fine? Whats the deal with 12.3 compared to 12.4? Any reason I would need 12.4+

[MagusDraco]

*shrugs* generally newer graphics cards have improvements for newer games. 12.4 just kinda broke diablo 3 though for older radeon cards.

Anyway to clean things you you need to uninstall the drivers. reboot. uninstall them again. reboot again, hope you boot into vga mode (640x480) and if not uninstall a third time and then boot to safe mode and use driver sweeper on the ati/amd drivers.

THEN it should finally boot into vga mode on non safe-mode windows and you can install the switchable graphics drivers. then (if you're my computer) 11.2. then 12.3

edit: you may need to stop/cancel/do something to stop the computer from auto windows updating to the old HP drivers. Mine did that forever once (which is why I said you had to uninstall things 3+ times). It was a pain. Hopefully you won't have that issue.