Hello everyone
I recently purchased a refurbished laptop and have been having a few issues with it. The first problem occurred when I tried to view flash videos. The video would start, then abruptly cut to black, the sound continuing and the whole unpleasant affair warranting a hard restart. This was resolved by simply disabling hardware acceleration. At that point I figured I was in the clear.
However, a new problem has unfortunately arisen. The system suddenly shuts off whenever I try to start certain games, including KOTOR, STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl and the demo for Anomaly: Warzone. The first two aren't officially compatible with Windows 7, but the last one certainly is. The problem seems to be exasperated, or to occur in accordance with, full-screen windows. (I'm developing a phobia of the things!) In spite of this, various other games run just fine, including World of Goo, Terraria, Dungeons of Dredmor and the Bastion demo. Of course these games are less graphically demanding, but I'd think that my laptop could at the very least manage KOTOR. My last one did and it had a full gig less RAM.
The specs:
Processor: AMD Turion II P540
Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
RAM Amount: 4.0 GB
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition (build 7600), 64-bit
Idle CPU temp is between 45 and 50, rising to the 50-60 range when one of the functional games is running.
So, any suggestions?
I recently purchased a refurbished laptop and have been having a few issues with it. The first problem occurred when I tried to view flash videos. The video would start, then abruptly cut to black, the sound continuing and the whole unpleasant affair warranting a hard restart. This was resolved by simply disabling hardware acceleration. At that point I figured I was in the clear.
However, a new problem has unfortunately arisen. The system suddenly shuts off whenever I try to start certain games, including KOTOR, STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl and the demo for Anomaly: Warzone. The first two aren't officially compatible with Windows 7, but the last one certainly is. The problem seems to be exasperated, or to occur in accordance with, full-screen windows. (I'm developing a phobia of the things!) In spite of this, various other games run just fine, including World of Goo, Terraria, Dungeons of Dredmor and the Bastion demo. Of course these games are less graphically demanding, but I'd think that my laptop could at the very least manage KOTOR. My last one did and it had a full gig less RAM.
The specs:
Processor: AMD Turion II P540
Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
RAM Amount: 4.0 GB
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition (build 7600), 64-bit
Idle CPU temp is between 45 and 50, rising to the 50-60 range when one of the functional games is running.
So, any suggestions?