retired_eldiablo699

Hi There

I have a 1.7Ghz processor with 512mb of ram, but it keeps crashing when playing FM2008, It just switches off, But my laptop is above the minimum spec for the game, Anybody any ideas what i can do?? I can play the game and i am very frustrated.

Thanks

retired_rossa7878

512MB of RAM is really scraping it, and even if it didn't crash it would be unbearably slow. I use an macbook with 1GB of RAM and it works fine. Have used it on a pc with 768MB RAM and also seems to work ok.

retired_sean wgc.com

Try switching off the player images and anything else that doesn't affect the actual game. My old, lumbering desktop sprang into life when I did this.(512 MB RAM)

darreng

Try looking in task manager and see what processes are running. You can normally disable quite a lot of these which should help. Ultimately though you might have to get more ram. Its not that expensive and is relatively easy to fit yourself.

retired_arkady13

ive got 512 ram (graphics card also uses ram) and a 1.7 ghz celeron m processor and it runs fine

retired_arkady13

is it just fm that switches off or your laptop, make sure you have the patch and turn off background software

retired_haynesleighe

Sounds to me like an overheating problem.

Dav1d

Agreed. Download a program to monitor your temperatures and see which are high.

retired_jon2508

My old PC had 512MB of Ram and it could play one or two major countries leagues on FM2008 fine, but any more than that was pushing it a bit.

retired_rippage

Definently be a overheating problem.i had this with my old computer, i thought it was a virus.i switched it on and it last 2 mins before shutting down

I had someone open the comp up and my fan was broke and the motherboard started to fry.

Meant the bin for the computer, you might be able to save a couple things like your ram, sound card etc if the heat pattern hasnt got to them from the motherboard