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Ki11a_FTW
November 15th, 2007, 09:04 PM
So i just got gears of war shipped to me yesterday, i installed it etc etc, then when i go to run the game it says i need an update from ATI, and it gave me the update when i pressed intall. Then when i restarted my computer i got Blue screen of death, so i had to revert back to what i had. I skipped what it said about the update and ran the game anyway. The game runs for about 2 minutes then crashes. i loaded single player before that 2 minute time limit, it was running smoothly, then it crashed when the 2 minutes was up. "Gears of War has stopped running"..

And when i first installed vista, ive been getting this message whenever i boot up the computer:

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/738/aticompatbgi1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I wonder if that has anything to do with it.. and whenever i do install a new driver for it i get the blue screen of death.

This was all on my laptop, here are the specs

Processor:AMD Turion64x2 1.6 Ghz dual core
RAM:1 Gig of RAM
graphics:ATI Xpress 200M Series

Any help at all will be greatly appreciated.

Mr Buckshot
November 15th, 2007, 09:07 PM
Dude, the Radeon Xpress 200M is an integrated card. It either won't run the game, or the performance will be incredibly bad. Even if you fix this driver bug, you will not want to run Gears of War on your laptop, trust me. Even if it has dedicated video memory (this is always found in HP/Compaq laptops), it's not much better than, say, an Intel GMA 950 (which is the worst of the worst graphics chipsets of the 2004-2007 generation)

That's your problem right there. If you want to game on a laptop, get one with a real video card. I borrowed the game from my friend, and even my laptop's Geforce Go 6600 stutters on this game (haven't tested it on my desktop, since I took my laptop to his house and installed it there).

One more thing, Turion 64 X2 processors are not great. Like their Athlon desktop brothers, they represent affordable lower-end dual core capability, although they can be configured with performance equal to that of C2Ds.

Ki11a_FTW
November 15th, 2007, 09:10 PM
the 200M is integrated, but it is very different from most integrated cards, it has its own ram, and some other things. The game runs nice, until it crashes..

ans the system requirements are almost the same as halo 2's, and i can run halo 2 with medium settings..

Mr Buckshot
November 15th, 2007, 09:12 PM
Having dedicated video memory won't boost the 200M's performance that much. It only has 2 pixel pipelines, damnit.

Also Catalyst does not work with integrated chipsets. My desktop uses a Geforce 7600 GT but it has an integrated Radeon X200 in the motherboard, which I tried it for the hell of it (lawl at 15 fps in BF2 and FEAR).