Is it my computer, or is it FFXIV?

[Coldfire]

310M ewwwww~ owwww~ nuuuu~
It's a miracle you were even able to start the game with that. It's either the powersupply or the gpu that has heat issues I think.

[Antanias]

310M ewwwww~ owwww~ nuuuu~
It's a miracle you were even able to start the game with that. It's either the powersupply or the gpu that has heat issues I think.

So getting something to cool it might help?

[Eunys]

So getting something to cool it might help?

No cooling will help the fact the GPU is being overtaxed.

The (Graphic Device(s) NVIDIA GeForce 310M) is getting it's butt kicked, pretty amazing you can even start the game up. As a look at what your card is able to run see here: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-...M.22439.0.html

[Antanias]

No cooling will help the fact the GPU is being overtaxed.

The (Graphic Device(s) NVIDIA GeForce 310M) is getting it's butt kicked, pretty amazing you can even start the game up. As a look at what your card is able to run see here: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-...M.22439.0.html

Bummer, and I've only had this thing since Oct...guess I should've waited for something better

[Solace]

310M ewwwww~ owwww~ nuuuu~
It's a miracle you were even able to start the game with that. It's either the powersupply or the gpu that has heat issues I think.

Yep, thats integrated graphics, lucky the computer even starts the game. I'd say it's likely heating up to much and causing it to crash. It's to much for that gpu. Try running a fan under your laptop to cool it down. If your overclocking, don't..

[Zephir]

istant shut down can be a overheat problem... post the temp of the pg after 10-15 min of gaming.

[Antanias]

I wanna thank everyone who took their time to help me out w/ my dilemma

I'm having a new system built, and I can have it as early as next week. I'll post the specs once I get it hooked up and everything, and can update it accordingly if there is a thing or two wrong with it ^^

[BONKERS]

Get at least at GTS 450 or equivalent AMD Card(5770 IIRC) if you want to play the game smoothly on high settings.(Both are cheap cards, you can get them for less than 100$ in the right places like EVGA's B-stock, or ebay) (My brother's PC that is a very bottlenecked Athlon II X2 system wtih a GTS 450 that only scores 2300 on the benchmark because of the bottleneck can still run the game at 1440x900 on highest settings without AO or DoF very well)
don't skimp on anything really.


What is your budget?
Or are you having someone else do it for you? (that's what it sounded like)

[Antanias]

What is your budget?
Or are you having someone else do it for you? (that's what it sounded like)

Someone else building it, it'll be done next week so I can't wait ^^

@ Exander: Yeah, my new system is an actual pc and not another laptop. Gonna use my xbox 360 controller and hook it up to my "42 screen...I dunno why, but I cannot ditch the controller when it comes to gaming of any variety lol.