Guest Mart Posted September 16, 2005 Report Share Posted September 16, 2005 Hi everyone, I have very recently bought a new referbished laptop, its a Packard Bell Easynote H5 315 with P4 3.2Ghz, 512Mb RAM, XP (SP2) and a Geforce FX go5100 which has been giving me problems. Everthing was fine until I installed and started playing GTA: San Andreas. The graphics started out fine but after about 30 seconds the graphics became so jumpy that the game frequently freezes and becomes unplayable. I lowered resalotion, changed from 32 to 16 bit, and set the graphics to low and altough better the same problem happends. The thing is it runs fine on my desktop PC (AMD 1.8Ghz, 512Mb RAM, XP (SP1) and Geforce 4 MX 440)...Surly my laptop specs are much better?! I googled this problem and found some stuff about turning on V-Sync and applying some antialising which did help but the game was still unplayable. I then started looking for new drivers then the one already installed (5.3.6.0) but it was the lastest. I tryed the newest forceware driver from nivida but of corse my card was not supported. So after much googling and reading forums, I came across this website. Since then, I have tryed these drivers with different antialising settings and in game settings, some are slightly better but still the game has to be set on a low graphical setting before the game becomes to jumpy to play and freezes after about a minute or two: 5.3.6.0 (oringal driver) 78.11 80.40 78.03 56.77 Interestingly, I installed the game Far Cry when the 78.03 driver was isntalled and it gave a 'critical exception' error before it even ran the game and closed down. But when i put the 56.77 driver on the game runs altough still quite jumpy but playable. GTA: San Andreas is the same as before. (altough only with this driver and the very first one the 'rockstar games' logo at the begining is visable, the other driver just gave a purple screen witht he sounds playing) This is fustrating me to no end i would have thought this laptop would have had no problems when my desktop doesn't! If I could I would just buy a new graphics card but laptops are apprently nearly impossable to ungrade. Any help in the slightest would be greatly appricated! I've tried so hard and don't know what esle to do but aimlessly try random drivers! Is it possable its a hardware fault? Also I noticed when the jumpyness happends, a faintish high pitched sound can be herd from the laptop, loosly simular to a higher pitched hard drive sound. Again, The slightest of help greatly appericated! Sorry for the essay and thank you for your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted September 17, 2005 Report Share Posted September 17, 2005 Anyone got any advice or ideas at all? Im considering trying it without SP2, but as all the methods of uninstalling SP2 havn't worked, it would mean i would have to re format and reinstall everything. I think when XP was isntalled it must ahve been with SP2. Would this possbly work do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mart Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Anyone??! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salzrat Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Well, you have to consider it might be a hardware problem (e.g., faulty graphics card). Some cards hick up when the going gets tough... Try running the 3DMarks (2001se, 2003, 2005) to see whether that runs through... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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