Apple Crash on high GPU load

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  1. Kylevdm

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    Hey all,

    I am currently in Belgium with only my MBP (2010), I have windows boot camped but about once a game while playing LoL - so no a massive load - the computer freezes and crashes, it honestly looks and sounds like the a dvd has bounced... The video just stays on the last frame before the crash and the sound bit just repeats.

    Any ideas?
     
  2. Fantus

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    Can you quit the game and kill the process or do you have to turn the MBP of completely?

    Might be worth having a look in the system logs, see if any errors are showing there.
     
  3. Kylevdm

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    I have to kill the MBP and restart, it is driving me mental! It was happening once or twice a day but not it is every 40-50 minutes, I can play diablo 3 on OS X just fine but not so much LoL on the windows partition.
     
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    This is the MBP with Intel HD graphics, right?
    If so, my wife's has a few quirks under Windows as well. Nothing wrong with the Hardware, stuff like the screen brightness changing if you Alt-Tab out of a game and back in. In OS X it's fine.

    Does it happen with any other games or full-screen 3D programs?
     
  5. Kylevdm

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    It has a NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M so it should be fine... it is fine doing anything else, have not played any other games on windows as I only play LoL, I have however played 6 hours of Diablo today on OSX with no problems at all!
     
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  6. Kylevdm

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    There was a windows update - which restarted without permission and closed a game of LoL RAGE, but I should have turned auto updates off - and now the problem only occurs every 5 games or so... hmmm
     

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