chewie (the new member) has got a ASUS republic of gaming laptop (i know i would have gone a democracy laptop for sure but he didnt listen)

after installing starcraft2 the lappy descided to slow in performance dramatically. now even after start up its sooo slow and shit you cant do anything, an error comes up saying "ACMON Error, Falied to prepare Critical file", Chameleon engine out of service, has anyone come across this problem before.

cheers, speedy reply's will be helpful

cheers boots

gotta completely remove Splendid and reinstal the latest version:

http://support.asus.com/faq/asus-faq.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&no=3CA33EA5-B5B2-2D2F-A85E-193D732CC521

heres somethin you can try.

Start >> msconfig, go to services tab, tick hide all microsoft services,
then uncheck everything that you dont need to start up on start - up

do the same on the services tab.

Also - make sure you haz latest GFX driver.

Also after all that, if its still sluggish, open task manager / all processes click on the memory sub-tab in the processes tab, and it shows all that is using the RAM, end those which seem suspicious or not from microsoft, then do the same with the CPU instances, tho i doubt its a CPU problem


LOL trae ....

well you can just disable splendid from starting up, via msconfig.

also do those steps to help boot faster ....

Wounded wrote:

apart from hating laptops

+1

LOL other thing he might wanna try if the laptop is overheating is to undervolt it, before i undervolt my laptop it was getting near 100 degree C went i was playing games and the throttleling kick in which made my laptop run at 800Mhz for 3 seconds, after undervolting my temp was reduce to 68 degrees C even went the cpu was at 100% usage.
It doesnt affect the peformance of the laptop one bit and it doesnt damage it.

^+1 An old, very old, laptop i had lying around was hitting 110 Degrees....shortly after it died.

tho i purposely killed it.

raging virt lol

yea it is the splendid, oh lol yea my 6 month old lappy that cost two arms and legs to pay for runs it perfectly

boots out

Wounded wrote:

starcraft 2 is plenty of fun, seems to rape my computer a bit on high settings, must be a hell of a laptop to run the game, hope u sort it out, i cant give any help apart from hating laptops

Set shaders to high rather than Ultra....makes it run alot better...shaders are broke!

its such a simple game for how much they've ranted on about it, maybe thats why i like it, almost through the campaign, t'is fun