King's Bounty = Overheating Laptop

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kalar14 Posted: 06-22-2009 2:36 PM

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So I recently bought King's Bounty: The Legend on Amazon.  It arrived the other day and I gleefully installed it as I've been looking forward to playing this game.  Five minutes in the game hard locks forcing me to power down.  I realized I forgot to patch it up so I did, and again, 5-10 minutes in the game locks up.  As this second lock happens I notice my fans are spinning full tilt.  I feel the back of my computer and it's burning hot.  I start Speedfan and load the game, alt tab out once the fans start and according to Speedfan my GPU and processor are pushing close to 80 degrees Celsius!  To test out whether or not King's Bounty is doing this I load up Unreal 3 and play that for about 30 minutes with no overheating problems.  I've cleaned out my fans/vents within the last few months so I don't think that's the problem.

I believe King's Bounty is trying to viciously murder my laptop.  I checked out the publishers forums and I'm apparently not the only one who has this problem.  I write this as a warning to any PC gamers with a laptop interested in King's Bounty.  Check out the demo first (apparently it has the same problems as the full game according to the forums).

Anybody else here have this problem?