My laptop crashed the other day because minecraft made the GPU hit the thermal limit and shut down.
If I put any game on, it doesn’t matter what game at this point, the entire room gets a good 4-6 degrees warmer.
It’s coming up on 8 years old soon.
I can no longer even play HL2 on max settings. And that thing runs like butter on every machine I’ve ever installed it on. Heck I had it playing better than this on a 2006-8ish sony Vaio desktop.
My point is, attempting to load this would immediately turn my computer inside out on a subatomic scale, spontaneously (and against all current physics knowledge) turning into antimatter, destroying a good chunk of the state as an explosion the force of Tsar Bomba rocks the continent.
If Minecraft & HL2 were previously running fine you may need to open up the laptop and blow out some of the fans & heatsinks. It probably won’t prevent the temp rising but it should help with the performance issues you’ve been having.
Buying a laptop cooler is also an option if you’re not looking to replace the laptop anytime soon.
The case comes off super easy, so I clean the dust off once a week (dog hair gets everywhere so o have to stay on top of it) and I’ve even replaced the thermal paste.
It sits on a forced air cooling pad, on top of a hard surface for maximum airflow to keep it as cool as possible.
It’s getting replaced this year when I save up enough, not sure what to get yet but literally anything above a chromebook will be an improvement. I have my eyes on some newer games that I want to run smoothly if not at high settings so we’ll see when I can afford it.
For now though… I just point a giant fan at the laptop and play in 30 minute bursts to keep away from the temperature limit.
My laptop crashed the other day because minecraft made the GPU hit the thermal limit and shut down.
If I put any game on, it doesn’t matter what game at this point, the entire room gets a good 4-6 degrees warmer.
It’s coming up on 8 years old soon.
I can no longer even play HL2 on max settings. And that thing runs like butter on every machine I’ve ever installed it on. Heck I had it playing better than this on a 2006-8ish sony Vaio desktop.
My point is, attempting to load this would immediately turn my computer inside out on a subatomic scale, spontaneously (and against all current physics knowledge) turning into antimatter, destroying a good chunk of the state as an explosion the force of Tsar Bomba rocks the continent.
Reapply the thermal paste?
Definitely reapply thermal paste.
And give er a good dusting out
If Minecraft & HL2 were previously running fine you may need to open up the laptop and blow out some of the fans & heatsinks. It probably won’t prevent the temp rising but it should help with the performance issues you’ve been having.
Buying a laptop cooler is also an option if you’re not looking to replace the laptop anytime soon.
The case comes off super easy, so I clean the dust off once a week (dog hair gets everywhere so o have to stay on top of it) and I’ve even replaced the thermal paste.
It sits on a forced air cooling pad, on top of a hard surface for maximum airflow to keep it as cool as possible.
It’s getting replaced this year when I save up enough, not sure what to get yet but literally anything above a chromebook will be an improvement. I have my eyes on some newer games that I want to run smoothly if not at high settings so we’ll see when I can afford it.
For now though… I just point a giant fan at the laptop and play in 30 minute bursts to keep away from the temperature limit.
I have issues with (modded)minecraft using all ram and vram in my pc, that is like almost 40gb of memory just for minecraft