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Thrill 2599 Posts November 07 2011 00:08 GMT #21 The 555 should be able to run medium settings @60fps. I would contact your dealer for warranty or a refund as this isn't normal. Sounds like the on-die intel gpu is acting up. Edit: i run the game at 1080p with low settings and effects on ultra at a steady 80-120fps with a 330M card so..

Gogleion United States534 Posts November 07 2011 02:47 GMT #22 Why do you make a blog blaming a whole company because you got a defective laptop that had a part that they didn't even manufacture? The problem is with Optimus technology, which is basically hybrid graphics between Intel HD and GeForce. But even further, the problems with that are limited to windows and work great under ironhide in linux. Just cool down man, no need to hate nvidia just for that.

Finskie Sweden412 Posts November 07 2011 03:31 GMT #23 i used to have a t61p with a nvidia quadro fx 540. it lived for exactly three years and one month. the odd month was after i bought it from the school from which i had lent it. long story short, the graphics card blasted itself to crap but it ran most of the games smooth and i could render high-polygon models with it. so they are not all bad

Sermokala United States14155 Posts November 07 2011 06:39 GMT #24 I have GTX 560 TI's and I consider it a personal insult when I can't play the highest graphics. This will happen with every game that will come out. Drivers for SLI comparability can be laughably bad with sometimes it would be better if I just had the one running. Its really not a nividia thing but just a general problem with the communication between graphics card companies and video game companies. I hear that some games are just as bad if not unplayable with Radion cards. Its really weird because companies try to make games good for cards and then card companies try to make things good with games. The companies should give the games to the graphic card companies a lot earlier but no one wants to leak their game. Thats really werid that the tech support guy has teusday and Wednesday off. This is the reason btw that I have a desktop and not a labtop.

Zariel Australia1312 Posts November 07 2011 06:57 GMT #25 As a computer technician, just don't buy a laptop with ATi/Nvidia graphics. Don't buy a laptop to play games, buy a desktop PC instead. CPUs and graphic cards are meant to have their own separate cooling systems, trying to combine both units to be cooled by a tiny 4cm fan with negligible heatsinks is just suicide. In the end, these big companies try to put the best parts in and raise the prices higher. They all know that each laptop is not at all capable of handling any form of gaming and know every customer is gonna fry their CPU/GPU a year later. Note: I just received a HP laptop with the customer complaining overheating, turns out he plays SC2 so I give it a run and not to my surprise, it turns off in about 5 minutes. I dismantle the laptop, remove old thermal paste and apply new paste, give it a dust clean, assemble it back. Give SC2 another run, this time, it lasts 15 minutes

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