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Starcraft 2 on G73JH

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Well it turns out that the "top of the line gaming laptop" cannot play Starcraft 2 properly.

If you use anything but the lowest settings the game will randomly lag & often kill all video going to a completely black screen. Twice now the game has hung in a video loop.

I started with the built-in Radeon Catalyst drivers. Windows 7 reported a Windows Experience Index of 2.0. Yeah TWO. As in complete junk. Why? Video rating for 3D and games was a 2.0. When running Starcraft 2 it simply stated "card not supported" and defaults to 1024x768 resolution and lowest video settings. If you set it to 1920x1080 and cranked up to even medium settings the video lagged horribly.

I upgraded to the latest ATI Radeon driver from the ATI website, version 10.07. Starcraft 2 stopped lagging and became ALMOST usable. However, after a few minutes of play the audio started looping and I got a black screen. NOTHING worked. No keyboard input, mouse input, power input, LCD keys, NOTHING. I had to do a hard power off after 20 minutes of listening to a horrible audio loop.

Second attempt at medium video settings and the system started lagging a little, but still got into this audio loop problem.

This is *NOT* a Starcraft 2 problem. I've been playing it fine on my Sony Vaio VGN-AR890U for a month now. It runs no lag on a NVidia mobile card with only 512MB of video RAM.

This is horrible for a laptop advertised as a "top notch gaming laptop". In fact this statement can't be further from the truth:

"Visuals look awesome on the 17.3” full HD screen, and made even better by the ATI Mobility™ Radeon® HD5870 with 1GB GDDR5 – an overkill GPU taking notebook gaming beyond the edge so you no longer have to switch graphic details off in options menus."

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I can attest to running the new vBIOS, drivers 10.8 and BIOS 211 and I have ZERO problems playing SC2 for at least 3-4 hours at a crack. Longest game session lasted 6.5 hours with my son playing on my G73JH-A3.

Without futher information in regards to vBIOS version and 5870 temps while gaming it is hard to try to point at anything that would explain the issues you are having.

All I know is that I have no problems playing SC2 on a properly updated G73JH-A3.

Chastity
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10.10 WHQL coming out Friday.
[SIGPIC]Kicking Ass Since Today[/SIGPIC]

Pyro411
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Chastity, it's available for download now 🙂

Roland3
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Guys, I found a way to fix my mouse corruption in Starcraft 2 with my G73JH.

I've tried many ways, updated ATI drivers, even upto the newest 10.10, updating BIOS, turned off mouse shadow, updated DirectX, set DPI to 100%... etc. They didn't fix my problem. However, thanks for those suggested solutions. 🙂

And there is a solution it fixed my problem, before I had low screen resolution in SC2, after I change the game setting to high resolution, it fixed! Guys if you have mouse corruption, go to try it out.

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Wow. Im having some issues with my G73 myself but I can say that SC2 is not one of them. I run the game with everything turned up all the way in a window on a seperate monter while browsing the web... Not a single issue there. No lag no nothin. Wish I could help you with you that.

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This problem call GSOD (Green Screen Of Death) when you install another and new driver and game crash.

Older driver ATI dont load the game and new driver crash the game.

I have ATI 5870M (same problem).

The name of videoBoard was wrong and need be rewrite.

Try --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bPte3QO_L4w
our ROG Forum --> http://www.asusrog.com/forums/showthread.php?519-G73Jh-GSOD-Vbios-Update&highlight=GSOD

i hope thats help you.