My Computer overheats, and then freezes up.

**Cute Wolf** · 07-02-2010, 14:28

did you use Avira? my laptop is getting used to blacked out when playing EB for long, I just get rid of it after someone points out that avira is trashy and took heavy tool in memory, and now everything going nice, better stick with AVG

**Husar** · 07-02-2010, 21:47

What temperature is it in the room?
My notebook doesn't overheat usually while playing games but at the moment it's about 30°C outside (not much cooler inside) and it already turns really hot just by running windows, downloading a file or whatever. I don't even dare to start a game at the moment.

**Prussian to the Iron** · 07-03-2010, 13:10

Originally Posted by Cute Wolf

did you use Avira? my laptop is getting used to blacked out when playing EB for long, I just get rid of it after someone points out that avira is trashy and took heavy tool in memory, and now everything going nice, better stick with AVG

nope. Kaspersky.

Originally Posted by Husar

What temperature is it in the room?
My notebook doesn't overheat usually while playing games but at the moment it's about 30°C outside (not much cooler inside) and it already turns really hot just by running windows, downloading a file or whatever. I don't even dare to start a game at the moment.

inside its only in the 70's (degrees obviously), and i usually have the fan on cooling it down a bit.

BTW: can anyone tell me if a george foreman grill gets really hot? *ashamed look for not knowing*

**pevergreen** · 07-03-2010, 13:22

Originally Posted by Prussian Iron

inside its only in the 70's (degrees obviously), and i usually have the fan on cooling it down a bit.

BTW: can anyone tell me if a george foreman grill gets really hot? *ashamed look for not knowing*

The laptop or your room, because 70 degree's is ambigious. Only temp so far has been C. So yours better be Farenheit.

Its a grill, it gets hot to cook things?

**Prussian to the Iron** · 07-03-2010, 13:33

thats what i thought, but i wasnt sure because he might have been sarcastic. *embarassed*

the room, the thermostat is set to 75 farenheit (omg i cant believe i said degrees...I just woke up), 75 celcius would be like cooking in hell.

**Husar** · 07-04-2010, 22:05

Exactly, and by the way, my laptop has been overheating a bit lately so I went with my dad and used his compressor to blow some air into the back of it, a cloud of dust came out everywhere and now it's running just fine, not even going to full fan speed in games where it would overheat before. Guess I should have done that earlier, with the compressor that is, tried to use a vacuum cleaner few months ago but obviously that didn't help as much, if at all.

**naut** · 07-05-2010, 10:02

Ok. Here's the solution. Your laptop runs XP or Vista yes? That means it is not optimised to run more than 2GB of RAM/Virtual Memory. What's happening is the games are maxing out your memory and trying to constantly manage the paging of your RAM to Virtual Memory, causing it to over-work and over-heat. Which in-turn causes your PC to shut itself down so as to avoid internal damage. Simple solution:

Part 1:
1. Download and install Explorer Suite CFF Explorer
2. Run it
3. Click open and find the .exe file related to your game
4. A screen will appear with a list of headings down the left side, click "File Header"
5. On the right a bunch of values will appear, look for the row "Characteristics" and press the "click here" box
6. A window will appear with a bunch of tick boxes, look for the one "App can handle >2gb address space" and tick it, click 'ok'
7. Save and close

Part 2:
1. Go to command prompt
2. Type: BCDEDIT /set IncreaseUserVA 3072, click enter
3. Close

And you'll be good to go.