Vista Freezes

[Xarune 0]

Couple months ago I Installed SC4+RH to my laptop that is running windows vista business.

I have had SC4 on this machine in the past, and it worked just fine. My computer had to be sent in to HP because it was having some severe malfunctions. When i got the computer back I had to re-install SC4.

Now whenever I play the game it Freezes after about 3 min. and it stays frozen for about 5 min. Then i can play for about 30 sec. every 5 min as it re-freezes.

My system is past the requiremnets of the game.

I havn't updated my drives since I got my computer back because for some reason NVIDEA driver downloads seem to fail.

Any idea on how to fix this?

[edman2012 33]

not sure but laptops rn't very good with games

[TV-VCR 15]

I imagine you have the latest version of SC4 (all patches applied)? That being 640.

You should seriously try to update your graphics drivers. What model laptop is this? Do you know the specific graphics chipset onboard it? For getting the drivers to download, have you tried downloading from another computer, and then transferring the installer over to the laptop? If that fails, have you maybe tried using a different internet connection if possible?

Originally posted by: edman2012

not sure but laptops rn't very good with gamesquote>

It sounds like you're implying that all laptops aren't good with advanced graphics...

[Xarune 0]

I have tried patches but not sure I got all of them tho, the ones I used had no effect.

As far as the laptop, it has had the game run suberbly before on it.

Graphics Card is a Nvidea Geforce Go 7600

system:

Ram: 2gb

Processor: AMD Turion 64x2 Mobile technology TL-64 (2 CPUs) ~2.2 GHz

Running DirectX 10 if that makes a difference.

[Xarune 0]

Just downloaded the latest driver from Nvidea (I think).

The game is still freezing like it was before.

[tungston 19]

You don't need any extra DirectX files for SC4. It is possible you need to set the game graphics option to software rendering.

If the laptop has a wide screen you may need to use a custom resolution for the game.