Left 4 Dead not running properly

donttrustevery1 · Jun 19, 2009

Hey my roommates laptop isn't playing Left 4 Dead right. The game will randomly freeze for 2-6 seconds and then act normal and keeps doing that. He also notices a few issues in COD4; It's skippy but not near as bad as left 4 dead. His laptop specs are:

2.4ghz intel dual core
2x2gb OCZ DDR2 800
9600m gt
XP 32bit

All his other games run fine and we can't figure out what is wrong

erocker · Jun 19, 2009

Background processes. Turn them off.

donttrustevery1 · Jun 19, 2009

erocker said:
Background processes. Turn them off.

We are pretty good at turning off background processes. It only acts up in left 4 dead and a little bit in cod4.

Every other game runs fine.

reverze · Jun 19, 2009

Format and update all drivers..

donttrustevery1 · Jun 19, 2009

reverze said:
Format and update all drivers..

Nevermind, we just figured it out. We had multicore rendering enabled. :toast:

RadeonProVega · Jun 19, 2009

donttrustevery1 said:
Nevermind, we just figured it out. We had multicore rendering enabled.

I put on multicore rendering and it runs just fine. Why are you gaming with a laptop, just curious.

Corrosion · Jun 19, 2009

I had the same problem with my old XP formated and its fine now. was about to tell you.

Kenshai · Jun 19, 2009

u2konline said:
I put on multicore rendering and it runs just fine. Why are you gaming with a laptop, just curious.

Portable desktop replacements are actually very popular. I would game on a laptop just so I could take it with me wherever I go.

human_error · Jun 19, 2009

Glad you've sorted it - incase you want to try getting multicore rendering working in the future i had a problem with L4D freezing up every few seconds for a couple of seconds because my mouse's usb report rate was too high - i lowered it and L4D ran fine again with multicore rendering on.

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