Hang n Downer

[Netrogor]

Been googling for others who've encountered issues similar to what I've hit, and I'm rather curious - other people who have had such issues simply never received replies, and the issue seems to have never been addressed...

 

So, here's a breakdown -

I have a Sony vpcf122fx laptop. I used to play Skyrim on it all the time, and other than the occasional CTD from loading up too many mods, it was flawless. Now, after some months, my wife has gotten herself a laptop as well (with Windows 8 on it), and she's playing Skyrim... which made me want to play again.

I'm not a scrub when it comes to computers, been building and fixing them since before I could read, and I know how to run memtest86, furmark, and other programs to stress-test my PCs, in addition to checking temps and figuring out if it's an overheating issue.

On load my laptop has managed to peak at 65 degrees Celsius running Furmark on a burn-test for an hour. Used to peak up to 69 degrees, but I took it apart after the issues started up last week (with trying to play this game again) thinking perhaps there was a heating issue, and put MX-2 thermal grease down (the stock grease was globbed on horrifically, thank God I found an excuse to do that s*** myself) on the CPU and GPU.

 

Specs (as I've modified a few things) are as follows ->

CPU- Intel Corei7 @ 1.73GHz w/Turbo Boost to 2.93GHz

GPU- NVidia GT330M

RAM- 8GB Kingston Memory @ 1600MHz 9-9-9-27 timings (stock, though the laptop only had 2x2GB sticks, I upgraded it, and yes that was done before I stopped playing Skyrim early this year, and no issues arose from the upgrade)

HDD- 300GB Western Digital @ 7200rpm (stock was a 500GB seagate, which died on me, as one would expect from seagate HDs)

 

I can play... ohhh lets think... any other game for any period of time without my laptop shutting down or restarting itself.

Natural Selection 2

Dawn of War 2

COD Modern Warfare 3

Mount&Blade (+ Warband expansion)

Cortex Command

And so many others I flit about during my downtime...

 

Now, considering NS2 requires an immensely superior machine to run it compared to Skyrim... and it runs fine and dandy under the most extreme conditions... me tinkz that there is an issue with Skyrim, specifically.

ATM I'm going to rock a clean-wipe of my audio drivers, and put specific Win7-64bit ones I grabbed from the realtek website (I already performed a clean-boot after wiping my HD and reinstalling my O/S with only the drivers from its out-of-box stage, then installed Skyrim, patches, and the mods I want, and tried running it with and without mods).

I'll get back to ya'll if the audio driver update fixes it, otherwise post something that perhaps wasn't openly posted for others.

 

EDIT:

Oh, and the only thing that pops up in the Event Viewer... ID41, Kernel-Power 63. No crash or dump logs.

 

EDIT2:

Oh, and when it freezes up, blacks out the screen, and goes to shutdown... the audio continues to play for a second or two, without skipping, as though all is fine.

Edited November 24, 2012 by Netrogor

[Netrogor]

Bump.