Being forced into an early gaming retirement

[Redneck]

YAY, no more Simo snipes.

Kidding of course, there was a bad batch of NVIDIA mobile GPUs that went out a while back, wonder if you got one:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/new...w_gpus_instead

Not that it would immediately help your situation, but I wonder if there's a class-action suit against either the laptop manufacturers or NVIDIA.

[calculon]

The defects involved laptops equipped with mobile Nvidia GPUs- specifically the 8600M and 8400M chips. There's suggestion that the earlier GeForce Go 7000 and 6000s are bad too; and questions of stability in their motherboards with the 790i chipsets.

The class-action lawsuit in progress was filed by one of Nvidia's stockholders. I don't know if a consumer class-action is in the works.

I game on a laptop too Simo, (an Asus G1S I bought a year ago) and it's got an 8600m GT- one of the affected chips. But I can still game- but the BSODs happen more often from desktop than a game engine.

[dynamo152]

holy shit...

i play (well i haven't in a while) but i've got a laptop with a nvidia 7900gs and i had problems too!

Glad to know i'm not alone.

Now i'm just trying to save up money to fix the problem

[Simo]

Dear sourceop servers:
I miss you. I was so close to 100k points

love
simo

[Drunken F00l]

I hope you get it sorted out soon.

[unknown]

DF, you should give him those 7k pts, just for old time's sake

[Simo]

As of right now It looks like it will be at least a few months before I can get back into the game.

[JamaicanTJX]

SIMO!!!!!

1st off...sucks that u havent been around. hope u get that fixed

2nd...how the hell do u snipe so well from a laptop?!

[insomniaprincess]

Sorry you're having issues, Simo and hope you get it sorted out sooner than you think and can come back to play.

I also cannot play TF2 on my laptop and I've yet to figure out why. I do have other computers, so it doesn't stop me from playing but it irks me I can't figure out what's wrong on the laptop.

Also, I can play other Steam games like CSS and L4D on the laptop but when I load TF2, it lags so bad it's like a slide show. At first, I couldn't even get it to load but it's still unplayable.

[trover4]

SIMO!!!!!

1st off...sucks that u havent been around. hope u get that fixed

2nd...how the hell do u snipe so well from a laptop?!

this reminds me of the time we all found out that SPAM used the arrow keys to play.

Would be priceless if simo was using the touchpad instead of a mouse.