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RE: RE: Vista and Full-Screen Games Don't Get along
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Make sure you have the latest drivers for your graphic card though the current ones by nvidia are betas (new ones coming out every month), they are still better than the ones shipped with vista or the ones which come through windows update.
Does it matter if my graphic card is by/ not by nvidia? I have no clue what my graphic card is or how to find what it is...:S noobness!
I'd say your problem is right here. Especially in Vista it is important to have the latest drivers. One way to find out what graphics card you have is to go Run (where ever that might be in Vista :P) and type in dxdiag (I'd assume they didn't change it). In XP, the information you are looking for is under the third tab from the left (most likely labeled Monitor or Display, using a non-English XP myself). Then if you could tell us what card you have.

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O.P. RE: Vista and Full-Screen Games Don't Get along
I believe it's resolved, as it hasn't crashed in the past 3 hours. Thanks everybody :P
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RE: Vista and Full-Screen Games Don't Get along
if it's sporadic it really may be overheating



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RE: RE: Vista and Full-Screen Games Don't Get along
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I believe it's resolved, as it hasn't crashed in the past 3 hours. Thanks everybody :P

Did you do anything? :P
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RE: Vista and Full-Screen Games Don't Get along
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if it's sporadic it really may be overheating



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Bit late but i would agree with Voldemort. From seen the first post i automatically assumed over heating.

:-) But its fixed from what i read. (or is it, heat works in strange ways)
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RE: RE: Vista and Full-Screen Games Don't Get along
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if it's sporadic it really may be overheating



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Because upgrading your OS is likely to cause overheating?* By that token, I guess Vista is hot stuff?

*ok, technically this is quite possible and a lot of people have had problems with ACPI where it works fine with one OS but dies under another. Still, it'd be strange to be a problem only with full screen dx games.
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*ok, technically this is quite possible and a lot of people have had problems with ACPI where it works fine with one OS but dies under another. Still, it'd be strange to be a problem only with full screen dx games.
Why is it strange? it uses the processor quite a bit, so it gets hot =/
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Because upgrading your OS is likely to cause overheating?*
It was a new laptop that I have gotten with Vista pre-installed.
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RE: Vista and Full-Screen Games Don't Get along
Well for starters, Games usually one of the only things that test your systems CPU higher than most applications.

Of course encoding movies etc. use lot of CPU.

My old pc use to over heat playing counter strike source and only counter strike source. Which turned out to be heating prob.

Graphics card was getting to hot along with my processor :)


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Can u provide the full spec of your laptop or link to your laptop or the make and model of your laptop.

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http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?s...=0665000FS10086064

And I still haven't had any problems since.
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