> > EA can eat my ass. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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.
It could also mean the system is overheating. Friends with laptops and integrated graphics have had that problem in the past.
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