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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Killjoy2 on June 29, 2007, 11:32:27 AM
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What would you recommend for AH on laptop?
Would a Dell Inspiron do it?
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My Sony AR320E plays it very nicely.
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Originally posted by Killjoy2
What would you recommend for AH on laptop?
Would a Dell Inspiron do it?
I play on my Inspiron from 2004, and it works well. I just keep the settings all the way low.
:aok
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I'm currently playing on a Panasonic CF-29 tough book. CPU 1.6, RAM 1024, Vid card 128... I play resolution at 1024 x 768 and have no trouble playing on this system.
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I have a Thinkpad z60M widescreen with an ATI mobile card that plays AH2 well.
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Originally posted by Killjoy2
What would you recommend for AH on laptop?
Would a Dell Inspiron do it?
I am using a Dell Inspiron 9100 and it handles everything AH throws at it.
But... Heat is a problem. I have to point a table fan at the back of the laptop to keep the frame rate from suffering badly when flying Aces High.
I am Not too happy with that.
TIGERESS
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Well...
I took off the air vent things and found loads of lint clogging up the cooling fins. After removing all that stuff it is running cool with no external fan. I am happy again.
TIGERESS
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Originally posted by Tigeress
Well...
I took off the air vent things and found loads of lint clogging up the cooling fins. After removing all that stuff it is running cool with no external fan. I am happy again.
TIGERESS
Yeah, had to do that you my girls almost 3 years old toshiba. She told me it kept shutting down on her and I took a look at it. It was and I also noticed the CPU fan was working really really hard. So i removed part of the back and found load of dust clogging the exhaust.
It's all better now.
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Hey Fulmar,
mmmm... wonder how many others are having the same problem using laptops to fly Aes High.
The Inspiron 9100 has three :eek: cooling fans and they sequentially kick in as things get progressively intense such as low alt ground attack with Zoom View turned on and a lot of ack and defenders flying.
So fustrating to have the frame rate go squat just as you line up on a string of field guns and you're getting acked and cant get a shot in to stop it. grrrr
Hopefully now that I know what the problem was I can stay ahead of it.
It was like the laptop was on WEP too long. lol
Other than that heat problem, which is now fixed, I have really liked using this laptop to fly; its very powerful... has two seperate microprocessors and a very healthy video system. :aok
Glad this thread was here, it spurred me on to checking out the problem.
TIGERESS
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I think a good laptop would be the one that dissipates heat quickly efficiently so you can play longer.
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Originally posted by Fulmar
Yeah, had to do that you my girls almost 3 years old toshiba. She told me it kept shutting down on her and I took a look at it. It was and I also noticed the CPU fan was working really really hard. So i removed part of the back and found load of dust clogging the exhaust.
It's all better now.
I was about to give up on my 4 year old Sony Vaio, it generated too much noise and heat while running.
By luck, I found out that the fan was full of dusts. My vaio ran like new after I removed the dusts:aok