Playable Iowa mod too much for my computer?

[Snarf]

I'm thinking it may be the video card, but I drove headlong into a battleship task force in the Iowa, and my laptop performed a dusty-Nintendo-cartridge-blocky-screen style screen freeze and then proceeded to power down. I think between all the smoke rendering and the enemy shells vibrating the screen on impact, it was too much. What I wanna know is, did I just F- up my video card and/or computer as a whole, or do I just not play the Iowa? I was able to reboot, open up SH4 and play some more until i went for another run into the task force then got the NES freeze again. It's a shame because the Iowa is very fun.

[Snarf]

...okaaay, i think i will just have to play with a sub again and see if my computer crashes.

edit: I think I broke my silent hunter :( now it's crashing at the menu screen, time to reinstall.

[merc4ulfate]

If you want to test if it is the mod or not simply remove the mod.

I play the Iowa A lot. I ran into the Task Force passing through the San Bernardino Straights on their way to the small escort carrier force sound of Leyte Gulf. There must have been four Kongos, a few Ise and two Yamato battleships as well as heavy and light cruisers and about 10-15 destroyers. I ignored everyone except the two Yamato the gun fire was horrendous and never had a glitch.

Another battle had about 200 air craft in multiple waves of 20 or so and then after about ten hours of those I had a large fast group of destroyers. I thought the heavy firing would cause a problem but not a peep out of my small video card.

Granted I was playing on a desktop with 8 gigs of ram and 2 gigs of ram on the video card.

Like I said though remove the mod and see what happens the mod should not alter the game if removed and you were using JSGME.

[Snarf]

Yep, just ordered a new motherboard for my laptop, she took a 5" round right to the video card. My wife tried to play a DVD on the laptop and got the same NES style block screen, that told me exactly what the problem was.
:/\\!!:/\\!!:/\\!!:/\\!!:/\\!!
from now on I'll save the Iowa for my tower PC.
I took apart my laptop last night and found that 1, the heat sink for the GPU was covered in lint, and 2, there was very little thermal compound making contact from the top of the chipset to the heat sink.

[merc4ulfate]

I have never met a cool laptop