Comments on: Anyone know how good the Gemstone Blue is for games?

By: Morris Lee

Morris Lee — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:22:08 +0000

@jeremy,

try uninstalling the graphics driver. reboot, keep the laptop up with the driver uninstalled see if it still freezes.

if that still does not work, see if you got SP1 installed yet.

if SP1 is installed, then you should try a factory default by pressing Alt+F10 on startup, it will lead to eRecovery manager.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:45:00 +0000

my acer aspire 5920 keeps freezing up on me in normal mode but runs fine in safe mode and i cant figure out why it has windows vista home premium 32 bit can you tell me how to fix it

By: Morris Lee

Morris Lee — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:09:55 +0000

@Kanjah,

I hope you get “hope” soon! lol, I know you meant to say “home”

By: Kanjah

Kanjah — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:30:16 +0000

Thanks for ur tip Tyrone, i saw notebooks drivers on nvidia.com , i’ll try them asap i get hope, hope it works !

By: Tyrone Ludick

Tyrone Ludick — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:55:21 +0000

Guys

I had same problem with my GPU (9500GS). It froze and then flashed violently and displayed a message that my Display adapter has recovered from an error.

Well guess what?? I solved my problem. Nvidia has released notebook drivers. Search for the appropiate GPU that matches your GPU and download and install.

Since then, never had problems and my games run even better now.

By: Kanjah

Kanjah — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:02:08 +0000

Hi Morris , and thanks for your reply.

I am equipped with a brand new 9500m GS. I don’t think this is a thermal problem, cause sometimes freezes happened juste 5 minutes after power on, sometimes 40 minutes …

I tried many many things to fix it, i tried plenty of drivers, formating several times, downclock my GPU, tested my RAM and HDD, spy temperatures of GPU, CPU, spy actives processus and so on, but nothing changes.

I am desesperate and the more i try to fix it, the more i think it’s a hardware problem, so for now i am keeping the pc because i need it but asap i send it to acer support

By: Morris Lee

Morris Lee — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:46:02 +0000

which video card is yours equipted with? 9500m gs? if so, the 9500m gs the older 8600m gt(they are exactly the same) both have thermal issues. you can try different bios from acer, but not recommnaded, you can also use the rivatuner workaround, I will write small instruction if you want.

By: Kanjah

Kanjah — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:25:02 +0000

I buy an acer 8920g 2 weeks ago and like ndgaho i got a lot of troubles playing with.

I tried world in conflict, hitman blood money, crysis, COD4 and everytime i start playing the game run well during 10 minutes and then i got violent freezes followed sometimes by BSOD , memory errors or drivers errors, i tried several drivers such as laptopvideo2go.com ones but nothing changes.

I think this is a hardware problem, i am probably gonna send it back to acer and see if they can fix it …

By: Morris Lee

Morris Lee — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:20:13 +0000

blu-ray and hd dvd requires hardware support, one way to bypass this is to use Nero showtime, requires purchase, and the scale down to a lower resolution montor looks pixelated. since the hardware support requires the driver to specify wether if this card supports blu-ray and stuff, the laptop video 2 go one is modded from factory driver to be able to install on 3rd party manufactures, I believe those functions are still to be enabled by laptop video 2 go developers.

By: deano

deano — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:53:10 +0000

Hey i tried the 174.16 drivers recomended by morris and they work great for games. But i cant watch blu rays anymore they say the drivers are not supported. This was using the acer arcade deluxe program. Any ideas?