Today I almost became the shortest reigning monarch in Italian history. After serving me dutifully and without fail for almost 5 years and 25.000 hours, my laptop's graphics card went kaput. After troubleshooting for 6 hours and trying to get it back up and running, I could only come to the conclusion that it has failed.
Fortunately, the laptop comes with an Intel integrated graphics processor and that one is luckily still in working order. While not great for general gaming, it can run 2D games (which I prefer) and with PoN working, I can continue with the game. But damn, this was too close for my liking. For some people, it is their motherboard or their CPU that fails, for me, it has always been graphic cards or fans.
Well, enough moaning, I have an empire to carve out
