CivilizedHokie
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- Jul 19, 2011
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FYI - I fixed it! Used a dust cleaner on my fan's vent-out and it's been running 10 degrees cooler than before.
Thanks for the recommendations from other threads.
Thanks for the recommendations from other threads.
I've just purchased Civ V and am having the same random shut down events. Both times the following has happened:
1. Load game
2. Play for ~15-20 min
3. Laptop spontaneously and immediately shuts down completely
My specs:
Dell XPS M1530
Core2 Duo @ 2.5 GHz
4 GB RAM
32-bit Windows Vista SP1
DirectX 9.0 version of Civ being run
My computer gets pretty hot pretty quickly, but I can't remember this ever happening before. On a side note, I don't have SP2 because I couldn't connect to the internet after installing that, so I had to system-restore back to SP1. I hope I don't have to choose between internet connectivity & Civ V.
Any thoughts on what may be the problem? I assume that Civ V is updated to the most recent patch through Steam, but have no way of confirming that.