Quote from S14 DRIFT :

lol.

Presumably you're using the laptop on a flat surface, which is fine. Any flat, hard surface will be okay but if you put it on a bed or something it will cause things to heat up.

I recommend buying some compressed air and cleaning out the air vents, even if you can't see any air on the vents it may have gathered around the internal components so won't hurt to use it....don't turn the compressed air upside down and then squirt it however, word of warning.

Also the other advice about buying laptop coolers is a good idea. The idea about taking off the thermal compound is not a good idea because let's face it, if someone is asking on a racing game forum how to reduce their CPU temperature I doubt they're knowledgeable enough to remove a Chipset from a laptop, clean it and reapply the correct amount of thermal compound without damaging something...it's not a hard task no, but you get my point.

Hope it gets fixed

Best advice.

Compressed air for sure - Laptops suck up all sorts of crap. I've pulled out so much fluff and animal hair from customers machines that stops the cooling fans altogether. And they wonder why it overheats while using it on a duvet! illepall

45 - 60 degrees C isn't all that hot for you spec at idle.... 85-100 under load is a little high but to be honest I'm not surprised with 30deg ambient temps. If you not really experiencing any crashes / lock ups or graphical anomalies I wouldn't worry too much.
That said the compressed air and extra cooling will only benefit the life of the machine

Last edited by xzu, Tue, 17 May 2011 08:49.

Quote from logitekg25 :

i have a copy, and it crashes at random parts through it...i havent been able to get far enough to do anything more then move....i got to my room moving at one point...any fixes?

I had the same - really annoyed friends while doing the co-op - turned out mine didn't like the overclocking of my CPU - put it to standard and all was good.
Other than that, driver updates would be the first port of call

Quote from vandal1989 :

I'm not sure what's wrong as when I last played it it was running fine and I haven't changed any of the files since. I've re-installed it a few times but keep getting the same problem.

Possibly a software update has screwed with it if you haven't changed anything.

Try a system restore to a few days before you had any problems...

Hi all, got LFS yesterday and bought S2 today.
Toal Noob to the real sim world - but got the bug after dusting off my XBox wheel last week for F1 2010

Waiting on my G25 to arrive and start racing properly in LFS