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Hey all I got this new laptop I am having some problems with running games on my new laptop, I am running and I7, plenty of disk space, All updated drivers, Windows up to date, 3 main drivers running win7 & 8, 2 on board video cards, I dont think its an overheating issue since it happens right when I turn on the laptop or even sometimes before I even try and open the game "says PR has stopped working" this happen for other games as well. I dont know if anyone can help or know what to do but if anyone knows how to fix please help!! I am so close to playing this game in the way iv wanted to from the start and now this new problem is just causing me to not be able to run with the clan at all.

Laptop brand: ORIGIN
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3840QM CPU @ 2.80GHz
Installed Memory (RAM): 32.0 GB (31.9 GB usable)
System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Display adapters: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M
Hard Disk Drives: Win8 (C 255G free of 447,Storage 1(D 423 GB free of 447 GB, Win 7(E 21.7 GB free of 119 GB

If any more info is needed please post I am new to both win 7 and 8 so having a tough time figuring it all out so far.

That is a sweet notebook,

In both win7 and win8, notebooks have power configurations,
such as High performance mode, power saver mode, balanced performance mode, etc.

Laptops, unlike desktops, are meant to be used away from a power source frequently. This means that management of power is a big deal. On a desktop, you can set Windows power management to high performance and call it a day, but laptops often switch back and forth between different power management presets.

Sometimes, a laptop will switch into a power management setting meant to conserve power and doesn?t switch back when it should have. Or you may simply have changed the power management settings yourself and then neglected to change them back later. In any case, it?s important to make sure that your laptop is using its high performance power profile when you are playing games.

In addition to this, some newer laptops have what is known as switchable graphics. This means the discrete laptop GPU is supposed to turn on automatically when needed and then turn off again when it?s not. If you?re experiencing unusually poor performance in a game, check your GPU settings and make sure the switchable graphics are turning on as they should.

You can automate some of this manually, or by installing a program called process lasso free, and following directions below:

Here are your options:

'[R-COM wrote:LITOralis.nMd']Try removing all the windows UI graphics options, basically make your winXP look like WinNT, you can use this:

For Windows XP:Tweak UI - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download.com

For Vista, 7, 8: Ultimate Windows Tweaker, a TweakUI for Windows 7 & Vista

and turn off all the windows UI stuff, like windows shadows, mouse shadows, maximize windows animation, etc.

Also try Razer GameBooster Razer Game Booster Free Download, Speed Up PC for Top Gaming Performance to shutdown unneeded background processes.

3. Download Bitsum ProcessLasso Free. Make sure you download the correct version, Free 32 bit or Free 64 bit, Process Lasso - Automate and optimize process priorities, CPU affinities, power profiles, and more!
-- Start PR, JOIN AN ONLINE SERVER, alt tab to desktop, open ProcessLAsso window, right click on PRBF2.exe, PRLauncher.exe, and PRMumble.exe and pnkbstra.exe and pnkbstrB.exe and give them default priority status of High, set the PRBF2.exe to gaming mode, and give them high or higher access to RAM.
Unpark your CPU Cores in ProcessLasso->Options->Configure CPU Core Parking->UNpark your cores.
After this, you have to assign PRBF2.exe to a core other than Core0.



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After this, you have to assign PRBF2.exe to a core other than Core0.

[R-COM]LITOralis.nMd;1927766 wrote:Antol, your English is very good, very interesting post I had not thought of this before.

I have a permanent solution possible, let me write it up and I'll post again soon.

Download Bitsum ProcessLasso Free. Make sure you download the correct version, Free 32 bit or Free 64 bit, Process Lasso - Automate and optimize process priorities, CPU affinities, power profiles, and more!
-- Start PR and join an online server, alt tab to desktop, open ProcessLasso window, right click on PRLauncher.exe, PRBF2.exe and and give them default priority status of High, set the PRBF2.exe to gaming mode, and give both of them high or higher access to RAM. Right click on PRLauncher.exe and select CPU Core, give it access to Core0, Apply, close the submenu. Right click on PRBF2.exe and select CPU Core, give it access to Core1, Apply, close the submenu.

Adjust the Core number by how many physical cores your CPU has,
if you have a dual core,
Put PRLauncher on the first core, Core0
Put PRBF2.exe on the second core, Core1

if you have a triple core,
Put PRLauncher on the second core, Core1
Put PRBF2.exe on the Third core, Core2

if you have a Quad core, you should probably not need this.
Put PRLauncher on the second core, Core1
Put PRBF2.exe on the Third core, Core2

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These steps will either make your PC faster playing PR and have you jumping for joy, or it will make your other games faster.