Help! Bernard's in my computer!

[VIICDriver]

Did it ever work? Did it work well?

It has to be something with the video. Did you just install a mod or something before this happened, new vid drivers, new sound drivers?

Chuck

[Dan0859]

The game worked for about a month. Sometimes the colors were off, but it ran without a problem. I didn't do any mods or change anything, so that's why I don't understand what happened.

[The Munster]

Have you had a smell like of burning Cabbage ?

[John Channing]

A few problems here.

First your processor is a little on the light side, but would be adequate under other circumstances. However, with a laptop I am guessing it has on-board sound, so the processor is having to deal with some very complex sound files as well as everything else. A 32 meg video card is a problem too. But I think the real problem is the amount of available hard disk space. You would need a lot more than that for Windows and SH3 to operate happilly together.

However, try turning Sound Acceleration down to zero...

Start >>> Run >>> dxdiag >>> "Sounds" tab and move the slider all the way to the left. If that works great! Remember, however, if you play any other games on the laptop the slider can get re-set to Full.

And save often!

Good luck.

JCC

[VIICDriver]

Good advice, know nothing of laptops here except I hear they are not typical gaming material.

Chuck

[mookiemookie]

I would try deleting all the non-essential programs and files on your hard drive. Free up as much space as you can, and then adjust your virtual memory settings. (I'm going to avoid giving you specific suggestions on what size to use on your virtual memory size, as its a very contentious subject amongst computer geeks).

That's about the only thing I can think of when something used to work, but now it doesn't, and you haven't changed anything about it.

[Corsair]

Originally Posted by VIICDriver

Good advice, know nothing of laptops here except I hear they are not typical gaming material.

Chuck

Laptops today are no problem, I run all games on mine, using it at home as a central unit with external keyboard and screen, 1.8M Centrino, 1Gb DDR and 128Mo video card.

[P_Funk]

How big is your page file Dan? With a limited system that is one of the things you can control. An inadequate page file combined with barely workable specs would make for issues.

Related is whether it stopped working when you ran out of HD space.

[stabiz]

Originally Posted by Corsair

Laptops today are no problem, I run all games on mine, using it at home as a central unit with external keyboard and screen, 1.8M Centrino, 1Gb DDR and 128Mo video card.

Yes, but on low settings. Games like the new Splinter Cell require shader model 3.0, and only new/newer GPU`s have that.

The thing is, if you want a computer to play games on, get a desktop, since a laptop with the same specs will cost you way more.