I know JM doesn't recommend a laptop running the game....But!
Flipant:
Argon,
It was booting the toshiba screen but the screen became so garbled that I couldn't tell if it was in windows or not. When it came back though, I had a heck of a time with my graphics card. I finally found the correct driver upgrade and it ran tickety boo after that. I backed all that stuff up a few days before she blew, thank goodness. It has been an awesome computer short of this motherboard thing.
My problem is the that I have to send it out puralator every time I have a problem. Even Dell has an authorized dealer here, and their closest is Edmonton? Doesn't make sense to me, don't see dells on the shelves here but lots of toshiba's! lol Bitching doesn't help, why would they care.
I'm thinking of getting a local shop here to build me one next time, then they can take care of it for me. Thanks all for you help on this. It made me realize that I need more ram on my desktop, it's on order! lol Game slows down and I look at downloads, never ram.
Cynarra:
I had same problem with my desktop and Sims2. It is your hardware, not the game.
I have the problem narrowed down to bad motherboard or video card on my system. After 4 months of reformating and it still not fixed, I took to a local shop for $29 to tell me exactly which piece of hardware is bad. I should know shortly what piece is bad and if it will be cheaper to rebuild or buy new.
Good luck!
Hegelian:
Quote from: Argon on 2008 February 13, 23:56:31
OEMs never release up to date drivers for their hardware especially video card drivers.
This is not true.
socurious:
Quote from: Hegelian on 2008 February 18, 16:53:58
Quote from: Argon on 2008 February 13, 23:56:31
OEMs never release up to date drivers for their hardware especially video card drivers.
This is not true.
Maybe "never" isn't the best term, but I've had my laptop since '06 and there has yet to be an updated video driver. I check regularly.
I play Sims on an already outdated laptop (I even actually use it on my lap - gotta lift it up every once in a while or my legs get hot, but meh...) and it seems to work wonderfully. It's probably because I don't know what I'm missing, because I haven't used it on a PC. I've had little or no problems - knock on wood.
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