Been using N45S for a month now, have not crashed once despite quite extensive gaming and i multitask quite a lot actually, constantly downloading, firefox, msn etc etc and even converting videos WHILE gaming (always in a hurry). Anyway thought i'd share what i did, maybe useful.

First of all, i did clean install, the moment i brought the laptop home, didn't even bother to check what's in it. I installed win7, latest nvidia drivers, USB3 drivers, and THAT'S ALL. I used windows driver for everything else, BT, wifi/LAN, webcam, audio, etc etc. Didn't install any asus drivers/software at all. Then, i used windows update, to update all the drivers. I disabled auto update btw, so have to do it manually.

If you are wondering, everything works perfectly without asus software. Even the speakers + subwoofer. And the audio quality is still great, or should i say, no diff when using asus's. P4G etc is not important for me, i rarely unplug my laptop and run from battery, so power is no issue for me. In any case, the optimus technology takes care of that, imo P4G quite redundant. As for everything else, i assure you windows driver is good enough. And i have been using for a month like i said, with complete satisfaction and not missing out on anything.

My boot time is about 20-25 sec only due to that. My startup prog are MSE, Nvidia and my sidebar gadgets. Upon startup, RAM usage is about 1Gb.

Please bear in mind i am NOT claiming that Asus's drivers and software are causing the random crashes. Just wanna share my config, because my system is extremely fast and responsive, not to mention very stable at the moment (fingers crossed). Good luck guys, crashing while gaming sucks, i wish noone has to go thru that.

Wanna bring up a previous/old issue of n45sf; anyone else having random freeze/hang while gaming, with buzz noise coming from speakers even for low req games like dota? With no choice but to force shutdown with power button? Even after updating to latest BIOS/drivers? This prob really bugs me to no end, for it's occurrence is damn random with no tell tale signs, other than it only happens when i dota (not other games so far). Anyway decided to stress it with OCCT and check the power supply, for i had a feeling it's the culprit (again) and got an error in less than 3mins. But i have no idea what the error means, or how to interpret the data. Anyway to those who knw, pls help!!!







This post has been edited by rotunjere: Mar 12 2012, 07:31 AM