A month back I bought a new Laptop..
The Acer Aspire 8930G quite expensive. Here are the
specs.
Armed Assault + Queens Gamibit + Latest Patch - LEGIT copies.
Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 Processor (I know this really isnt recommended..)
Up to 1791mb Nvia GeForce 9600M (Yeh i know.. turbocache, it sucks)
Direct-X 10
4GB DDR3
320GB HDD
Blu-Ray
Windows Vista Home Premium 32-Bit
Now on to my problem... Whe I first got the laptop, i was so happy with it,
except for having Vista on there.
So I go ahead and install Armed Assault, and the game works FAB! On full
settings, even with the View Distant set to max, it was absolutely perfect.
Regardless of the specs mentioned above.. they dont seem all that good,
it could run armed assault fluidly with about 20 groups of 10 men on each
side with loads of tanks, boats, helicopters, planes etc... it could handle it.
Wow.
But after a few weeks of playing Armed Assault on my system.. it just suddenly
stopped working. I would start up the game, and I get no error.. no windows..
no nothing.. except a arma.exe process running, where the memory usage is
exactly the same as it was when I played the game in a window... and no CPU
usage..
So i got hacked off i may have wasted my money on this darn system (which is
beautful mind you.) So i decided to go through the process of resetting the system..
which involved press F8 at bootup, to reinstall windows Vista again. So that went
fine, i installed armed assault... Amazing! It worked!! Woohoo! So i as playing this
for a bit longer than I did before, and now its done that same thing as i mentioned
above again Its not working, but it has a process.
In the event Viewer, I am getting errors, but its not showing during app time.. which
is weird.
CODE
- System
- Provider
[ Name] Application Error
- EventID 1000
[ Qualifiers] 0
Level 2
Task 100
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2009-02-02T15:25:02.000Z
EventRecordID 1876
Channel Application
Computer Sams-PC
Security
- EventData
arma.exe
1.14.0.5256
482aea00
arma.exe
1.14.0.5256
482aea00
c0000005
00031b71
111c
01c98545cc30f8e1
- Provider
[ Name] Application Error
- EventID 1000
[ Qualifiers] 0
Level 2
Task 100
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2009-02-02T15:25:02.000Z
EventRecordID 1876
Channel Application
Computer Sams-PC
Security
- EventData
arma.exe
1.14.0.5256
482aea00
arma.exe
1.14.0.5256
482aea00
c0000005
00031b71
111c
01c98545cc30f8e1
So I am just wondering if anyone can help me out? I have had no viruses on this machines... but then
again maybe McAfee cannot pick everything up.
So games work on this machine and some dont.. The games that dont work, just shows a black screen
and wont go any further. ArmA does show anything.
I have installed
##WORKS
1. Bioshock
2. RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
3. Neverwinter Nights 2
##DONT WORK
1. Battlefield 2
2. Battlefield 2142
3. Lord of the Rings - Conquest
4. Tribes Vengeance
5. Enemy Territory Quake Wars (Could be possble to fix...)
Help me.. thanks.. i have been without a proper gaming system since a power surge destroyed my quad-
core pc... the best i ever had.. with XP on it!
Many Thanks,
Sam.
edit: Oh yeh, I have a 3D Modelling app on here (Cinema 4D which i use for Uni) and it works perfect..
edit2: And Armed Assault is upgraded to the max with Queens Gambit. As for laptop drivers, i only touched
the ones from the Acer Website. WHen in-fact they are the same versions as the drivers that came with the
laptop itself.
edit3: I have done a "Can you run it test"... this may not be related to my problem at all but im just curious
about 2 parts of the results...
check it out.
Video Card Driver Version
and
Sound Card Driver Version