Laptop suddenly overheating the past week or so
By
Back_Blast,
Posted on: 2010-05-13 12:39 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at May 13, 2010 04:04 (-04:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100226-1909)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Studio 1555
BIOS: Ver 1.00 BIOS A06 PARTTBL"
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 4096MB
.Net Memory Report: 2102MB out of 3066MB available
Page File: 4980MB (1151MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD3200BEVT-75ZCT2 ATA Device) 227200MB out of 305195MB (74%) free
D Drive: (HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GA11N ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (32-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI display adapter (0x9553)
Video Memory: 1784 MB
Driver Version: 8.632.1.2000
Driver Date: 8/18/2009 3:20:38 AM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 7/13/2009 7:51:47 PM
WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: 0C234M
Motherboard Version: A06
BIOS Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
BIOS Name: Ver 1.00 BIOS A06 PARTTBL"
BIOS Version: DELL - 6040000
BIOS Release: 20090423000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1600x900
3D Resolution: 1024x576 (Using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: No
Physics Quality: None
Maximum Particles: 100
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No
Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: None
Texture LOD Bias: Crisp
Water Effects: None
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: No
Shader Detail: Unknown (4)
World Texture Level: Low
Character Texture Level: Medium
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 0.500
Entity Detail Level: 0.300
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Shadow Mode: Disabled
Shadow Map Shader: Unknown (0)
Environmental Reflections: Disabled
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Occlusion Strength: Off
Blur: Bilateral
Ambient Resolution: Performance
Gamma Correction: 0.300
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: Yes
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.045
Music Sound Volume: 0.065
Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.000
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 1625491 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1800.201003300904.20T5r
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found
Global: @Fire Beam
More likely it's dust build-up, not a change in CoH.
Try blowing compressed air into the vents of the laptop. My daughter's laptop had this problem, and even though there wasn't any visible dust in the vents, cleaning it out with the compressed air made a huge difference immediately.
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As above, check for dust buildup. You'd also be well served by making sure your fans are running properly too. After that, you could also try getting one of those laptop coolong pads to help keep the temps down.
And while it almost certainly has nothing to do with your heat issue, I will note that your video drivers are fairly out of date. You can get the latest ones here: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...-Bit%20Edition
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The change in weather might have more to do with it than anything else. How much warmer is it in your playing environment now than it was a month or two ago?
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As a matter of fact, out of date video drivers, along with increased demands on the video adapter, can cause overheating of the gpu... since a laptop case is a small enclosed space, when one component gets extra hot, they all do, pretty much.|
Originally Posted by Back_Blast
As above, check for dust buildup. You'd also be well served by making sure your fans are running properly too. After that, you could also try getting one of those laptop coolong pads to help keep the temps down.
And while it almost certainly has nothing to do with your heat issue, I will note that your video drivers are fairly out of date. You can get the latest ones here: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...-Bit%20Edition |
It's always a good idea to keep your drivers up to date, but moreso when you are noticing problems with applications that may have changed... obviously, CoH has changed a bit.
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get a cooling pad for your laptop also.
Ive been playing COH for months on my new laptop with Windows 7 and have had no issues.
But in the past week or so my laptop shuts down every 20 minutes or so of playing, i think it overheats now playing COH.
was there a change in the game in the past week? or I wonder if its my system.
btw I turns the graphics and the gamma all the way down, the game is very bright with no shadows, and my system still overheads.
its a dell studio 1555 with Windows 7
thanks
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