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[bug] ?? ~10 minutes play, then freeze.

September 11, 2008 7:32:02 PM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

I also have the "play for a bit then crash" problem, though for me it's not a crash to desktop or something, it's just freeze.  I have to powercycle hard to get any response.  Music is still playing.

I'm checking drivers now.  I'm using a HP Pavillion laptop on Vista. (blech)

 

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Reply #1 September 17, 2008 5:57:16 PM
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I have the same problem, although the reason is very likely to be GPU overheating, because I opened my case and the heatsink on the video card is, well, way too hot to touch. By the way, I use NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT.

I'm using the "powerpack" driver from NVIDIA's website, which is 177.83. There is a newer driver 177.92 there and I'm downloading it. I'm also downloading nTune in order to check the GPU temperature. Does your laptop happen to have NVIDIA's GPU too?

 

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