Overheating?

[freddie]

My laptop is Acer Travelmate 7520G.

So I downloaded this game which has pretty much same requirements as my laptop has as specs. Altho it's only beta and the requirements might be bullshit (and since it's beta it might cause the problem too, but I dont think so). Anyway, my laptop runs the game smooth, even with decent/good graphics. Until suddenly without warning my laptop just shuts down. 1st time this happened my laptop was on for at least 40 hours already, and I played the game several hours too before it crashed. Next day (laptop wasnt on during night) I tried to again, played few hours and same happens again. After that I have tried several times, and it takes about half an hour for laptop to shut down. I downloaded coretemp, and it shows that while playing temp rises sky high.

So what Im really asking, is that why does the game run smoothly even with decent graphics and then suddenly just shuts my laptop down? And why it took 1st time much longer, even if my laptop was on for over a day and was already "quite warm". Is there anything I can do myself? I have tried installing it again and I have latest drivers. Or is the problem even overheating?

I already got some help from Flabby, thanks mate, but I would like to know if anyonelse has something to suggest. So please, little help would be needed.

[Dutch_]

Prolly overheating yes. You can try to fix it yourself with better cooling, but I would just call the Acer helpdesk. I mean, the product should be able to run just fine if left on for a couple of hours with full load.
They will probably blame the unstable beta game, so you need to get more proof. Download a game benchmark tool that uses both cpu and gpu and let it run for a few hours.

[Lemmin]

I had a similar problem with my laptop recently - it was getting to about 90 degrees C before crashing out.

The solution to me was to clean the fan out - the laptop is about 2 years old, and the fan was full of dust which was slowing it down, so the heatsink wasn't getting any air.

I'm not suggesting you do this, but what I did was to dismantle the computer and literally clean the fan. Simpler (but still not recommended) is to blow hard into the hole where the air comes out (with the computer turned off!) which may clear the fan a bit.

After cleaning the fan my puter runs games at about 65 degrees and doesn't crash.

Its also worth elevating the laptop a bit - I put mine on some little metal altoids-type tins so that the air vents underneath get some air.

[freddie]

Thanks for help, I need to just buy some tools to open my laptop and check if it's all dusty :P Altho recently it has been hot as the female teacher giving the blowjobs, so it might be broken

[laureth]

I had a similar problem with my laptop recently - it was getting to about 90 degrees C before crashing out.

The solution to me was to clean the fan out - the laptop is about 2 years old, and the fan was full of dust which was slowing it down, so the heatsink wasn't getting any air.

I'm not suggesting you do this, but what I did was to dismantle the computer and literally clean the fan. Simpler (but still not recommended) is to blow hard into the hole where the air comes out (with the computer turned off!) which may clear the fan a bit.

After cleaning the fan my puter runs games at about 65 degrees and doesn't crash.

Its also worth elevating the laptop a bit - I put mine on some little metal altoids-type tins so that the air vents underneath get some air.

this is likely to be the case use a vacuum cleaner on the under side of the fan and this gets all the dust out or most of it, this helped fixed mine when it was over heating

[freddie]

Thanks for ponting the obvious guys, feel quite dumb that didnt realies it myself. Fan was dusty, I just opened my laptop and blowed the dust away. Now it works fine