Hi All,

i"m a newbie here, but actually i have been following this forum for a couple of months.

i'm an owner of ASUS N45SF, and these freezing has become unbearable.

the symptoms i'm having is :
- at first, no issue, playing games all day
- but lately, i cant even play a game without freezing in 5 minutes.

i have tried :
- Defrag
- downgrade, upgrade Nvidia driver
- driver sweeper
- change compatibility
- change to "run as administrator"

and i know it's not the case of Jack sparrow, because other computers can run just fine with the same version i owned (note : NFS the Run IS capped to 30 fps, not because its a jack sparrow ones)

i'm close to reformat my windows, because i suspect my error is actually cause by
- windows update
- or, uncompatible sound driver

but if i'm not wrong, this issue only palgue the latest 2011 games, anybody playing Crysis experience the same thing?

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i agree with you...i also did the same thing...playing with headphones..didnt change anything...

so it works with downgrading vga driver?

btw, anyone using DLL-Files.com FIXER? the one recommended earlier?

so i tried it, deleted some HIGH-error, n somehow my GPU Temp drop from average of playing 81, to 76 c.

really odd la?!?!?

but still crash unfortunately...so i dont think its the Temp that causing to crash.

but the funny thing is that, usually after freezing, when i restart, nothing came up, but after i use DLL-Fixer, an ERROR notification came up.

anybody experiencing the same thing?

hi htpkevin,very good findings..i will try and test it too...i'll let u guys know if it also works on me...

so far the game who cause crash is : Skyrim, Oil Rush, NFS The Run

the game who has been stable : Batman Arkham City n Witcher 2.

the jury is still our for now...

htpkevin, it seems you are right...i played skyrim and oil rush and no usuall freezing which can only be solved by shutting down.

unfortunately or perhaps fortunately, now the crash is reduce to CTD. which is better, but perhaps its just because of the game, or high use of graphic, e.g : when i'm fighting a dragon in the middle of a blizzard.but else...seems a'ok.

which means, either a driver is really weighing the VGA or the power supply is not enough.

CTD = Crash To Desktop

nice thinking..just hope it didnt become a recurring incident, which can only be solved by repeatedly lowering the clock speed.

Just wanted to clarify some info..the 630 MHz, manage to make one of the most stable gaming performance so far.

at the exception of Oil Rush, which was made by a Benchmarking company, so i think the game was more of a benchmarking tools, than a game itself.

all credits goes to htpkevin

wuah? that seems bad...not too spook you, but the last time i saw that, its bcos of overheated graphic on my xbox..never thought i'd saw one on a laptop

Hi Taeyoung, can you inform us, what is the model of your laptop? N55sf or N45sf? coz i have been playing a lot of games on my N45sf on no issue (with the BIOS upgrade and downclock solution) so far.

hmm..dats odd. thats a first i heard n55sf error..VGA driver perhaps? just right click on desktop, and choose NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL, than choose "HELP- system information - driver information"

Yo, i played it already, no issue there..runs really smooth, with settings all high, perhaps you can check if its running on Nvidia or intel?

Tried it, done it..one word..AWESOME...

hi rotunjere, this is an issue that me and htpkevin had a while ago.
the solution is using an overclocking tools, like "MSI Afterburner", than downclock the GPU to 630 MHz.

that solves the problem splendidly..been using and no hang eversince, no matter what games i played.

I cant update my graphic card, always states that it cant found the compatible hardware.

i've tried the "net stop mgmt" and rename the "repository", but still no avail.

anybody has another solution?

tried that...and i think, latest graphic card dont use the inf anymore..my previous upgrade didnt require me to modify the inf..

so i'm piratically stuck right now

HI All,

anyone still playing Skyrim? a few days ago, as i was playing suddenly the game freeze for a few seconds, but before that, everything was smooth.
nowadays even in a fight, the game would suddenly freezes for a few seconds.

all other games are ok, no problem. i've tried :
- upgrading my BIOS to 223
- install the latest Nvidia driver
- update the game to the latest release.
- increase VGA clock
- decrease VGA clock
- reinstall - with/without mods

but nothing works, seems a Graphic card bug. any ideas how to solve? been looking everywhere for a week for a solution. but no one has the same issue on an N45sf.

thanks

hmm..i always disable anti-alias..i already tried to set it to "lowest" settings, but still the game freezes..so i think its something correlated with Graphic/CPU

how to disable superfetch?

guys, thanks for all the info, i did some checking :
- superfetch is on
- i've tried using GameBooster 3, or try running the game after restart..no efffect.
- and for htpkevin - as for the temp, i've been monitoring them, but strangely, no sudden rise, and quite stable.

at the very last attempt, i'll try revert the VGA driver. and see what happens.