Hello, I'm here again. And I'm back for the same reason I was here last time
Namely, my laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad T410, a little less than a year old at the moment) suffers unexpected sudden shutdowns most of the time when I'm playing this game.
I've already tried reinstalling my Java and that hasn't put even a dent in the problem (or did I do it wrong!? I'm a bit confused because I seem to have both 32bit and 64bit versions). I was suggested that it might be a problem with my laptop overheating but gee, doesn't it seem weird it tends to overheat a lot when playing THIS game? I've played two or three MMOs in the past without this problem at all. Or at least, not with the frequency it happens with when I'm playing SK.
My Windows 7 is up to date and so is my antivirus and stuff...
I've run defrag and scandisk and I've tried closing all unwanted processes and programs right before I start playing.
I'm not sure what is happening here, especially since there's no fixed condition as to when and where I am in the game and what the heck I'm doing when my PC suddenly [craps] all over me. Maybe I've messed up my laptop six ways from Sunday and I can't tell, since there are a few hiccups here and there sometimes and rare occasions when it freezes up completely right after I turn the thing on.
But I could be wandering in Haven, deciding what to do in a terminal, right in the middle of arena battles, trying to change my weapon/armor selection when all of a sudden, everything slows down, comes to a total halt and BAM! I have to turn my laptop on again.
I'm currently in Pakistan and the situation with power supply and iffy internet connections (and when the former is down sometimes the latter is affected) that tend to promise much more than they end up delivering (I have a 2MBps DSL and sometimes it feels like a LOT less) might have a bearing on this, except it happened when I was studying in Singapore too.
Can someone help? I'm getting tired of this. I'm wasting ME this way and I probably look like a massive tool to people I'm trying to play with, and I lost two Snarbolax runs right before entering the lair in part because of this sudden shutdown problem.
Do your fans sound like they are on crack?