ATI Raedon 5870 problem?

[HelpmeSuperman]

Is there any fix on the 5870 problem? I get this issue only when I am battery and not A/C. The problem being that whenever I watch any sort of video or play an HD game, the display driver crashes and then appears as a green screen there after until I restart the computer. Can anyone suggest any help? This computer is less than a month old and I'm annoyed of the driver crashing whenever I'm on battery power, so can anyone help?

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

Maybe a power problem/weak battery...how long does it run before the problem appears?

 

[HelpmeSuperman]

It runs fully until I watch a YT video or play an HD game so it can go from any range of time.

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

So if you were fully charged, started the game, it would crash right away.....but if you did not run a game it would run for some time?

Have you tried to update the drivers from AMD?/Micro-star?

Might also try to turn off hardware accelerated flash.....

 

[HelpmeSuperman]

Yep, it crashes whenever I go into an HD game or YT video after only like 1 minute and, I have tried updating the driver from Micro-star but it does nothing. But I have no idea what this hardware accelerated flash this or how to turn it off

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

start a video/right click the video/settings/shows a box/ uncheck hardware acceleration...

 

[HelpmeSuperman]

Well, that fixed the video problem on battery but now for the simple gaming on battery problem. Most of the games I have are that of high quality and all if not most of them forces my computer to crash.

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

How long do these games run before they crash? Have you ever been able to game on battery?

 

[HelpmeSuperman]

Games generally run for 5-10 minutes before crashing and I have not been able to game on this new computer since I had gotten it using the battery. I mean I can easily play flash games and all that but its real games that I can't play without crashing

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

How long can the laptop run on just battery power? I ask because any laptop with a 5870m is going to be powerful, but the flip side is it will draw a lot of power...It might have never or was not intended to game on the battery....at any rate the battery will not last long/possibly it can't make it through a dvd movie before shut down.

Flash games run on the 2D part of the card....the 3D is where the power draw is.....

 

[HelpmeSuperman]

The battery can last from a short one hour to a long three hours depending on what I'm doing with it. If I'm just browsing the web and using simple applications then it leans on the three hours side and when I start doing excessive stuff like music/video editing programs then it leans more towards the one hour side

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

like I figured Power, Efficiency, And Battery Life : GeForce GTX 480M: AVADirect

Notice in the review it says it must be plugged in before gaming starts.....114 watts at full load...30 minutes with battery eater....

 

[HelpmeSuperman]

Ah I see, so this laptop is meant for gaming while plugged in and not unplugged. Well, that solves the second problem and thats everything. Thank you for your help

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

Your Welcome