almost broke my laptop

[gemplayah]

i have ACER Predator Helios 300: i5, gtx1060 w/ 6GB, 16GB RAM... well above the recommended requirements... set it on max graphics settings and PredatorSense at max fan speed.... and it almost broke my laptop. it hanged mid mission... cannot even use task manager to end the app... the only thing I could do was to force shutdown the laptop holding down the power button. it managed to start up again...so I continued playing... this time setting the graphics at Medium Settings via card detection. When I decided to quit the game, I now notice that PredatorSense was corrupted, I cant access it to control the fans and the fans are stuck at max power, very loud fan noise... Acer Care Center App also wont start. I thought that was it, the game broke my laptop. thankfully, after searching ACER support and discussions without finding any solution, I tried to uninstall PredatorSense and reinstalled it. Fans now are back to normal. I've played a lot of graphic-heavy games with the laptop at max settings, its very hot and the fans are loud but I never encountered any game that did this. I couldnt understand why this game require so much graphics processing that it makes my laptop so freakingly hot! anyways, nice game but I still like XCOM 2 more.

[juliejayne]

It must eb some strange combo of game and fans.

I am running on an Asus laptop, GTX 960M GPU and it runs fine, a little warm, but much cooler than Battletech or other Unity based games.

[Ice-Nine]

I don't know what's wrong with your laptop, but this game didn't break it or almost break it. That's your own deal.

[Cathulhu]

The game can not break your laptop. Even if it wanted. It doesn't run on a software level where it can cause hardware damage.

Your Acer software crapping itself because you turned off the laptop instead of shutting it down is down to Acer shipping bad software.

[nilus]

Sounds like the laptop is the problem and not the game

[Rogue]

Originally posted by nilus:

Sounds like the laptop is the problem and not the game

its the game, i also have a laptop with better specs than the recommended and i could barely even run it on lowest settings. as for almost breaking his laptop that's probably and extreme over exaggeration.

[MrFunyarinpa]

Originally posted by Rogue:

Originally posted by nilus:

Sounds like the laptop is the problem and not the game

its the game, i also have a laptop with better specs than the recommended and i could barely even run it on lowest settings. as for almost breaking his laptop that's probably and extreme over exaggeration.

It is 100% the game. While my laptop doesn't seem like it's going to 'break', I do dread any mission with reinforcements because almost every time the game tries to spawn them in it freezes.

[Valen]

I have always said... Never ever think that a laptop is going to be just as good as a desk top - even with your full blown ACER Predator Helios 300. All that tech packed into a smaller area. In addition to all the pre-installed acer software and lap top drivers.

Your acer has a TI MOBILE video card - that means it is gimped - compared to a desktop version of the same card.

My self built pc desk top never locked up/overheated once or crashed on the entire game playthrough.

While there are some issues with this game for some - others are not having issues at all.

The game did not almost break your laptop - but if you want to continue to believe that... feel free to do so.

As for the other who are also running their laptops as gaming rigs - remember most games never officially support the hardware in lab tops because of mobile versions of graphic chip sets and shared architecture.

[gemplayah]

Originally posted by MrFunyarinpa:

Originally posted by Rogue:

its the game, i also have a laptop with better specs than the recommended and i could barely even run it on lowest settings. as for almost breaking his laptop that's probably and extreme over exaggeration.

It is 100% the game. While my laptop doesn't seem like it's going to 'break', I do dread any mission with reinforcements because almost every time the game tries to spawn them in it freezes.

yes, that was when it hanged... during the reinforcement turn. And yes, It always lag during those turns on any mission. For such simple graphics, this game really drives the graphics processor so much.

[gemplayah]

Originally posted by Rogue:

Originally posted by nilus:

Sounds like the laptop is the problem and not the game

its the game, i also have a laptop with better specs than the recommended and i could barely even run it on lowest settings. as for almost breaking his laptop that's probably and extreme over exaggeration.

it could be that the game did not detect your dedicated graphics card. happened to me. This was a common issue with systems who have integrated + dedicated graphics cards. if you're running an nvidia card, you have to manually set the game to use the dedicated card in nvidia control panel.

and yes, it's an exageration... its funny some people are so freaked about it... desktop vs laptop... sheesh... topic for immature spoiled brats. FYI for all of you young people, games can break your PCs if you are not careful with power and temperature management. I have seen videocards, a lot of them MSI by the way, broke after so many hours of prolonged gaming at very high settings. Most of them overheated. I have a mid level gaming laptop and I pushed my specs to the limits, damage due to overheating is a real risk.

[Cathulhu]

If a card overheats then the game is not the fault, but the game itself or the cooling solution of the computer. A game can not force hardware to run at unsafe levels. It can max hardware out at 100% and if the hardware does not survive that, then the game is not at fault.
Doesn't matter if it's a laptop or desktop.
Games don't kill hardware.

[Torque]

Did you tried locking the fps?

[Qoojo]

It won't be the last time it happens on your laptop. This is just the harbinger of poor cooling. So blow out the fans and clean it out.

These system utilities that monitor hardware are quite often poor software, with Corsair being some of the worst. You're better off running something much better tested like afterburner with RivaTuner.

So what happened on your system is that the acer monitoring software froze, and forced a hard restart. This monitoring software was in the middle of disk writes, and when you forced a restart without completing the disk writes, the files were corrupted, along with some other Acer bloatware utilities. This monitoring software is running at a driver level so that's why you locked up.

[talemore]

It was santa clause fault