Hello.
I've been having problems with my Lenovo Y50-70 Touch about 6 months after buying it. I put up with it and now I've had it for about a year. For the past 6 months, the laptop functioned in a bearable manner, with idle CPU temps growing (but not to alarming levels) and performance remaining steady (but much worse than when I bought it).
These past few days, however, have been very difficult, to say the least. It started when I tried to play Mount & Blade: Warband with the AD1257 mod. I used to play the mod just fine, but started getting runtime errors when entering battles and saving. Now I get runtime errors when it loads, and the game won't launch. Surprisingly, it works fine in windowed mode or when I check "load textures on demand".
I updated my drivers today, no luck. Reinstalled VCRedist and DirectX, no luck. Gave up. I then tried to play Napoleonic Wars (another Warband module), which is significantly less demanding, and got a warning mid-game that my laptop was running out of memory (which is nonsense, as it was only at 70% utilization). I restarted immediately.
I went on to test Insurgency. Got into the game, felt rather sluggish, but when loading a new map, it crashed and came up with an error message. Failed to lock vertex buffer. Obvious sign of GPU failure right there. So I tried Fallout: New Vegas, which had worked really well a few days prior, only to be met with a black screen upon loading up my save.
I guess I'm screwed, right? I need my laptop for engineering (Auto CAD and stuff), and if the GPU failed, I can't do my schoolwork properly.
Device manager claims the device is working properly, which is nonsense. Returned the laptop twice, and both times they failed to repair it (they reinstalled the OS and sent it back like the thieves they are). Now my warranty is gone.
What am I to do? How much does it cost to get this repaired? Or should I just got for some ultra-cheap, reasonable performance desktop build? Lots of them on YouTube, and I need a desktop for under $500, preferably equally or more powerful than what I have now.
So should I get this thing repaired? Or sell it and get myself a budget desktop? If so, can you recommend any good builds?
Update: Severe artifacting in Insurgency on one map.
Update: It seems that Fallout: New Vegas did not function simply because I opened the vanilla executable instead of NVSE_loader. Upon loading NVSE_loader, all saves function well.
Insurgency is, so far, functioning rather well in borderless mode. Same goes for M&B: Warband. Battlefield 3 functions in full screen as usual. Will test Warframe, another semi-demanding application, for artifacting.
I've been having problems with my Lenovo Y50-70 Touch about 6 months after buying it. I put up with it and now I've had it for about a year. For the past 6 months, the laptop functioned in a bearable manner, with idle CPU temps growing (but not to alarming levels) and performance remaining steady (but much worse than when I bought it).
These past few days, however, have been very difficult, to say the least. It started when I tried to play Mount & Blade: Warband with the AD1257 mod. I used to play the mod just fine, but started getting runtime errors when entering battles and saving. Now I get runtime errors when it loads, and the game won't launch. Surprisingly, it works fine in windowed mode or when I check "load textures on demand".
I updated my drivers today, no luck. Reinstalled VCRedist and DirectX, no luck. Gave up. I then tried to play Napoleonic Wars (another Warband module), which is significantly less demanding, and got a warning mid-game that my laptop was running out of memory (which is nonsense, as it was only at 70% utilization). I restarted immediately.
I went on to test Insurgency. Got into the game, felt rather sluggish, but when loading a new map, it crashed and came up with an error message. Failed to lock vertex buffer. Obvious sign of GPU failure right there. So I tried Fallout: New Vegas, which had worked really well a few days prior, only to be met with a black screen upon loading up my save.
I guess I'm screwed, right? I need my laptop for engineering (Auto CAD and stuff), and if the GPU failed, I can't do my schoolwork properly.
Device manager claims the device is working properly, which is nonsense. Returned the laptop twice, and both times they failed to repair it (they reinstalled the OS and sent it back like the thieves they are). Now my warranty is gone.
What am I to do? How much does it cost to get this repaired? Or should I just got for some ultra-cheap, reasonable performance desktop build? Lots of them on YouTube, and I need a desktop for under $500, preferably equally or more powerful than what I have now.
So should I get this thing repaired? Or sell it and get myself a budget desktop? If so, can you recommend any good builds?
Update: Severe artifacting in Insurgency on one map.
Update: It seems that Fallout: New Vegas did not function simply because I opened the vanilla executable instead of NVSE_loader. Upon loading NVSE_loader, all saves function well.
Insurgency is, so far, functioning rather well in borderless mode. Same goes for M&B: Warband. Battlefield 3 functions in full screen as usual. Will test Warframe, another semi-demanding application, for artifacting.
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