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Re: You know we've reached to a dead end in gaming distribution when...
11/19/10 08:49 AM
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> EA can eat my ass.
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> Sims3 blue-screens my roommates Dell laptop every time, but not consistently. It's
> totally random. Sometimes, it's right after loading, other times, she plays for an
> hour before it goes tits-up.
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> She has one of the better DirectX 10 capable Intel embedded graphics chipsets...
> Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
> ...it uses shared memory, but she also has 4GB of memory in her computer, so it
> should be ok.
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> I know it's not uber-powerful by any stretch of the imagination, but it shouldn't
> blue-screen. Hell, she runs World of Warcraft and Age of Empires III on it and they
> never crash.
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> At worst, she should just have to turn down some of the eye-candy. EA has lots of
> people reporting issues on the forums and the official response is "we don't support
> that chipset". They don't seem interested in even trying to figure out what the
> problem might be.
Not to defend EA, but a bluescreen is typically a driver problem. Now maybe they're doing something really horrific with D3D that sends certain drivers over the edge, but the fact is that a well written driver ought to be able to deal with it without taking the entire system down.
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