I know JM doesn't recommend a laptop running the game....But!
Flipant:
I bought a Toshibia Qosimio G30-Av4 october 2006. By march 2007, I had major problems with it and had to send it in. Turned out the mother board was gone. They replaced it, the hell I had to go through to send it out and get it back, was something I never thought of when I bought this machine. There is not one Toshiba authorized dealer in my area, way up north in BC, so I had to send it to Vancouver. Anyway, long story short, it came back a month and a half later. Ran fine. I run up to Seasons, no fun packs. About 1.8 gigs of downloads, my hacks are from maty.
I bought this machine because of the specks, being told also by the sales people that it would run TS2 without a problem. It has intel Core 2 Duo T7200 - 2.0 GHz, 2 GB ddr2, 220 GB HDD, Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 256 mb graphics. Windows Xp Media.
Never did have any problems running the game. Then come March, getting major bsod's ,my screen goes wierd, green stripes down it, funny crap happening, couldn't boot into windows, that I could see because of all the funny crap on my monitor. I send it out, which I won't get into, but god dam does Toshiba suck for customer service! Sent the thing down to Vancouver, and it was the motherboard, they replaced it. The computer was only 5 months old.
Now here I am, same shit happening, Toshiba tells me that the motherboard they replaced it with, is only under warrenty as long as the computer is, which was last october. I have extended warrenty, if I drop it, spill on it, whatever, i get a new one. They tell me once again to send it to vancouver. There goes another month of my life. Now, besides my bitches about Toshiba, with these specs, TS2 should NOT be the problem, am I right? That's what I want to know, cuz i don't do anything with this computer but play TS2, Simcity, surf the net, and talk on msn. Msn was acting up just before the crash, if I tried to do a video call or set my web cam settings, msn would freeze up and I'd have to cold boot the machine because msn wouldn't close or do a dam thing but sit there pissing me off.
I'd just like to know from the great one, is it TS2 screwing me up, or did I just get a dam good dud of a laptop? Yes yes, i may be non awesome, but I need to know for sure! lol Any help is appreciated, I paid a good penny for this laptop, just so I could play my game when we are on the road, and if it isn't the machine for it, I will smash it and collect my accidental damage warrenty! lol Didn't pay all that money for nothing.
Thanks all, even if there are sarcastic remarks, I will appreciate them.
PS: Oh great JM, the machine has never once heated up while running TS2 or anything else.
J. M. Pescado:
Your specs should be sufficient, given that you have an actual graphics card in it, but the problem with powerful laptops is that they have major heat dissipation issues, and likely your laptop is frying. Fried boards from overheating typically exhibit symptoms like that. Also, EWE NEED MOAR RAMS. With 2 GB of RAMs, you should not be using that much CC.
Ellatrue:
TS2 shouldn't give you hardware problems. If you are worried about heat, do what I do and get a little cooling pad with fans in it to stick under the computer. They're about 20 bucks.
J. M. Pescado:
Also, try misting the boards with liquid nitrogen.
Jelenedra:
Don't play with the computer on your lap. Your body heat doesn't help the laptop keep cool.
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