Hi everyone, I recently picked up a copy of Halo 2 for PC and installed it on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1545) with Windows Vista as the OS and the game ran (Barely though, the video capability of that laptop is depressing).
Anyway, I got a new laptop a few weeks later (A Dell XPS, decked out with plenty of gaming gear) but running Windows 7 as the OS. Now the game installed fine but when I try to play it, I get the little loading icon next to my mouse pointer and then nothing. At all.
So my question is, does anyone know how to fix this problem? or can anyone link me to another thread/site where someone has had this problem and has solved it?
Cheers :)
[Edited on 09.06.2011 5:51 AM PDT]
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Hey guys, Quick update. After trying to install and run a few other games (Basically the only ones I'd be playing anyway) and running into the same problems, Dell have agreed to refund me for the XPS 15 after we rang and basically explained the laptop wasnt capable of doing what it was described as being able to do. So I've been hunting around trying to find another laptop I can buy (Whilst trying to avoid optimus technology) but its proving much harder than it sounds. In one way or another, all laptops, regardless of make and model, have some form of dual GPU's. So i was wondering if anyone can answer me this: Is all optimus technology basically a flop, or is there specific ones to avoid? The ones im looking at now are Alienware laptops (Which dont have optimus), Dell XPS 17 which has a GeForce GT 555M (Optimus), and two different models of Toshiba Qosmio's. Both using nVidia cards. One with the same card we had issues with in the XPS 15 (GeForce GT 540M with Optimus) and another one with a GeForce GT 330M (No optimus, but something called CUDA). One other thing worth noting is that from the research i've done the optimus problems reported seem to be mostly Acer's and Dell's. Is it possible that these laptop manufacturers are to blame, rather than nVidia? Cheers guys.