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Macbook Pro Graphics Card -- possible upgrade?
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<blockquote data-quote="kinetickatie" data-source="post: 929644" data-attributes="member: 128412"><p>The problem started after I installed The Sims 3. That's what alerted me to the fact that my video card is old...the game would crash after a few minutes. I have XP partitioned and when I tried to run the game from there, it said my video card was too old to play. I just gave up on playing the game on my Mac in favor of playing it on my family's PC with a much newer card. I uninstalled the game, but now I'm having problems with the screen. Not sure how the game could have harmed the computer...I'm thinking it was just a coincidence. But who knows.</p><p></p><p>I usually don't turn my computer off. It sleeps a lot since it takes forever for it turn on (it takes awhile to load everything, not physically power up). I use SMC fan control to keep the computer under 140 degrees.</p><p></p><p>My dad is helping me find a place to have the problem diagnosed tomorrow. I'm afraid I may need a new logic board. Good Lord I hope that's not the case because that is just so expensive!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kinetickatie, post: 929644, member: 128412"] The problem started after I installed The Sims 3. That's what alerted me to the fact that my video card is old...the game would crash after a few minutes. I have XP partitioned and when I tried to run the game from there, it said my video card was too old to play. I just gave up on playing the game on my Mac in favor of playing it on my family's PC with a much newer card. I uninstalled the game, but now I'm having problems with the screen. Not sure how the game could have harmed the computer...I'm thinking it was just a coincidence. But who knows. I usually don't turn my computer off. It sleeps a lot since it takes forever for it turn on (it takes awhile to load everything, not physically power up). I use SMC fan control to keep the computer under 140 degrees. My dad is helping me find a place to have the problem diagnosed tomorrow. I'm afraid I may need a new logic board. Good Lord I hope that's not the case because that is just so expensive! [/QUOTE]
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