CommanderSven Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I just bought GTA4 and have been trying to play it on my laptop. But when I am playing the game, within a few minutes of playing it starts to freeze and going to a black screen for a few seconds. The audio keeps going, but the screen is black for a few seconds before the game starts running again. After a few of these freezes (which happen in pretty rapid succession), the game will just go to the black screen and the audio will keep playing but it will just stay like that and I am forced toe alt+ctrl+del to exit the game. The game runs pretty smoothly on medium graphics (25-30fps). When I turn the graphics down, the game runs smoother and takes longer to do the same black screen freezing. I haven't had trouble with my computer playing other games such as Skyrim, Battlefield 3, Witcher 2. I have however had a similar problem in Batman Arkham asylum were the game will freeze and I have to alt tab out and back in in order for it to keep playing again, but even this runs smoothly otherwise. What do I need to do to fix my GTA problems? Laptop Windows 7 64-bit Intel Core i3-2310M 2.10ghz 6gb ram Nvidia Geforce GT 525M (Forceware 295.51) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkey82 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 This is probably an overheating problems, most laptops aren't really made for heavy gaming. Be sure to place the laptop on a hard, flat surface while playing to aid cooling as much as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderSven Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 Yeah, I think overheating is the problem. What should I do to minimize overheating? Will turning the graphics options down help? What about underclocking my graphics card a little? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girish Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 If you have some money to spend, you can invest in one of those cooling pads for laptops. That might help too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkey82 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 The game settings (and thus system load) do not scale well so you need a lot of processing power across the board. Those cooling addons can probably help a bit, but it's questionable will it be enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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