- Oct 27, 2013
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I bought this laptop last Black Friday for the sole purpose of playing the Sims 3. I already had a desktop but it's older and made my game lag and run slow. This laptop ran it beautifully and never crashed. The hard drive failed after my laptop bag was banged and my laptop was on in sleep mode. I have to take it on the go a lot and was too lazy to turn it off. I took it back to Best Buy and got a new one, and again had hard drive failure (this time without personally causing damage to it lol) so I sent it in to have the hard drive replaced this time. I've read this model is famous for hard drive failure.
After, this computer seemed a little slower, but I felt like I was just being picky. My game still worked for months, but about summertime my Sims 3 game kept crashing. I thought it had to do with my custom content so I weeded out most of it. Then I removed it all completely, and then removed all saves, downloads, and caches, trying to start fresh with a new game. When that didn't work I tried removing and re-installing my last few expansions--when I thought the problem might of started. I have a 10 expansion packs and 6 stuff packs, but I thought maybe the installs were bad. Now I removed it all. All games, even uninstalling and re-installing the base game. The first time I played again I made a family and played for about an hour and half before a crash. Now it will crash after 5 minutes.
I monitored my fps and it stayed about 35-70, always less than 100. My computer does get very hot, but I used to play for hours, stupidly, with a hot laptop and all that ever happened was lagging. When I would go to the task manager after a crash, the CPU would run at 100% around the time of the crash (crash to desktop that is). Could my laptop be aging already
Hopefully, if I can not find a way to make my game work I can at least make HP take this back since it has not been a year since last Black Friday, but of course, the clock is ticking. I don't want this laptop if it won't do what I bought it for.
This is really a puzzle to me and any thoughts or help is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!
HP ENVY m6-1125dx Notebook PC
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz
RAM: 8.00 GB
x64-based PC
Graphics:
Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
Memory: 1664 MB
After, this computer seemed a little slower, but I felt like I was just being picky. My game still worked for months, but about summertime my Sims 3 game kept crashing. I thought it had to do with my custom content so I weeded out most of it. Then I removed it all completely, and then removed all saves, downloads, and caches, trying to start fresh with a new game. When that didn't work I tried removing and re-installing my last few expansions--when I thought the problem might of started. I have a 10 expansion packs and 6 stuff packs, but I thought maybe the installs were bad. Now I removed it all. All games, even uninstalling and re-installing the base game. The first time I played again I made a family and played for about an hour and half before a crash. Now it will crash after 5 minutes.
I monitored my fps and it stayed about 35-70, always less than 100. My computer does get very hot, but I used to play for hours, stupidly, with a hot laptop and all that ever happened was lagging. When I would go to the task manager after a crash, the CPU would run at 100% around the time of the crash (crash to desktop that is). Could my laptop be aging already
Hopefully, if I can not find a way to make my game work I can at least make HP take this back since it has not been a year since last Black Friday, but of course, the clock is ticking. I don't want this laptop if it won't do what I bought it for.
This is really a puzzle to me and any thoughts or help is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!
HP ENVY m6-1125dx Notebook PC
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz
RAM: 8.00 GB
x64-based PC
Graphics:
Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
Memory: 1664 MB
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