Is my GPU burned out from running Battlefield 2?

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Is my GPU burned out from running Battlefield 2?

I bought a new laptop, Acer Aspire 5102WLmi
- AMD Turion 64 x2 Mobile Technology
- 2 gigs RAM
- Radeon Xpress 1100 128mb
- Windows XP Media Center

I could run Battlefield 2 smoothly on low settings until recently, where it would become so choppy that the game is unplayable. Here's what I tried so far:

- Set everything to low or off.
- Reinstalling the game
- Prioritize my IRQ(on one of the tweak guides I read)
- Rename it to BF1.exe(again, tweak guide)
- Set Punkbuster checks to 500 seconds
- End every process that has my username on it except explorer.exe
- Delete my shader optimization folder and optimized it again
- Downloaded the AMD dual core optimizer and updated drivers
- Went into the Catalyst Control Center and set every setting to the lowest possible
- Defragged my hardrive
- Run spyware/adware/virus scans
- Uninstalled AVG because it was running in the background
- Uninstalled some unnessecary programs
- Researched overclocking, but found that I shouldn't overclock integrated graphics
- Tried to update video card drivers, but Catalyst 6.12 gave me an incompatibility error
- Tried to increase AGP size aperture, but didn't find the option to in my BIOS

I asked on Battlefield 2 forums and the responses I got was that it was a heating problem, and that my GPU isn't fit to run it and i've killed my computer, so I ran the air conditioning and bought a cooling pad and it isn't hot at all while running BF2, so that probably isn't the problem. When I play other games however, games that aren't graphic intensive at all such as old RTS's, I get choppy gameplay, so i'm beginning to wonder if I really did kill my computer. What can I do?

Status: Open Dec 31, 2006 - 12:02 PM

hardware, Graphics Cards, Gaming, GPU, Battlefield 2

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nidhi

Apr 16, 2007 - 04:02 AM

I never thought laptops were really designed for games. I play GTA and there is a difference between playing that on laptop and on PC. But laptops nowadays are becoming more powerful in terms of memory and graphics so not a problem anymore. They sure do heat up quickly though.

I noticed your graphics card is 128meg. That could possibly be one reason. Do you know if its shared with anything else?

I have Bratz Rock Angels for my daughter and that initially ran on a PC with 128megs, but it was slow and jerking. I upgraded the AGP card to 256 and now it runs sweet. Absolutely no problems.

In your case, it seems min requirements to run your game is only 64megs
http://www.mofunzone.com/download_gam...
So in theory it should be okay

But I mentioned this as a possiblity because officially u only need 32megs for Bratz http://www.gamersinfo.net/index.php?art/id:1159 but the damn thing ran crap with 128!

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nidhi

Apr 23, 2007 - 04:49 AM

Did your laptop ever get so hot that u cant even touch keypad?
On my older HP laptop I had just that problem. When playing over time it became so hot, I couldnt even use the keypad. I had to turn of the game and let it cool down.
But it never blew anything. Sign of a good make I think
They've since merged with Compaq - arrrgh!!!

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