PumBumbler

If you can install a diagnostic tool (I'm not sure what ATi compatible stuff is out there), see if you can probe the temperature of the GPU as you play.

If the GPU temps don't seem to be affected very much by fan speeds, even when ramped up fully, you may want to see if the heat sink to the GPU has been properly installed. Consult online with other people who have the same laptop or GPU to see if they temperatures you see are inline with theirs. If not you might be able to fix it.

If it is under warranty, sometimes the vendor might humour you and attempt a repair.

If you are sneaky and have a good PC installer type friend or overclocker, they can probably do a better warranty voiding job than the vendor and seat/reseat the GPU using a high quality thermal compound. Of course the usual caveats apply when cracking open a computer. There are a million and one things to break and if it doesn't work afterwards don't blame me.

A GPU reseat may not cure your overheating entirely but should significantly improve the cooling capacity of the fan and heatsink already installed. Since this is a laptop, changing out the heatsink and fan is an unlikely fix since better parts probably don't exist unless you are a machinist.

In the meantime perhaps the /maxfps command might keep you from overheating while not looking at an ugly game.

NSFW Bunny

There's already a thread regarding the complaint. Please try not to be rude and threadjack the OP's compliment.

MMs can be a little more versatile in raiding structure if the MM is familiar enough with blue team.

Advanced MM tactics:
After the Yellows are down it is fairly safe to venture out for MMs, and while their pets keep distracting the Blues, the MM and their non controllable pets (if any) can join the Green squad in holding the Greens.

As well, MMs can buff or rez when appropriate, just be careful about getting one shotted if the yellows aren't down yet.

Also remember to step just outside the goo when the raid leader call for TPers to step out, but keep the pets on Hami. You should be able to see the respawn and run away (with superspeed) behind a rock before the Mitos have a chance to hit you.

rawr!

The next best thing is to have multiple babbages during an invasion of skyway.

If you play windowed mode, type cntl shift esc to bring up the windows task manager, and you can watch the memory allocation creep up.

Mine inevitably crashes after crossing the 1.45GB mark, no matter how many reloadgfxes I do.

Last update to the bios was 2009/09/16, version F6. I don't know if that maps to your 6.00PG but just in case you didn't see it.

If you haven't got it it can be downloaded here.

No idea whether it would fix your issues but it does seem like a reasonable place to start if you've been experiencing the same problem across different OSes.

Thanks for the tips. I'm fairly certain I'm going to move out of Safari and into Chrome once it leaves dev status on the mac. The biggest stumbling block is for the iPhone, since it has the lowest processing, storage, imaging and network power. Anyone have any tips for handhelds?

This has been nagging me lately but I've finally gotten around to looking at why the forums have been dogging me out since the change over. While there are some stylistic issues that I have with the site, I just want to point out a couple of things that might improve the boards without drastic thematic differences.

One of the things I've noticed is that I rarely visited the boards anymore on my iPhone...it's just too slow. I also see reloads on pages from Safari on my mac being a bit pokier too, although on Chrome/Win7 it is pretty quick.

One of the things I saw was that the background image is pretty big, so I decided to download and take a peek. BG image is located here if you want to see it.

It is almost 400k in size (384k). It's big, beautiful and hogs a lot of space. It would make a great poster, since it is 1920 pixels in width. If you could cut it down in size it would save a lot of space/time/bandwidth etc, and possibly would speed up browsing for limited devices such as the iPhone.

So I decided to cut it down a bit to see what can be done to reduce the size.

This is what I came up with. The image is substantially the same but just fades to black on the arcing portion.

(I linked it as a URL instead of inline). The image hosting might change the resolution settings etc. but it was 167k, a pretty substantial savings. The image quality is the same as the original, but a heck of a lot shorter in height.

In addition to being smaller, the center section is punched out to black. The width of the black area is defined by the narrowest width I could make the browser before the table divs started breaking out in Chrome (browser). A side benefit is also when the browser window is wider than 1920 pixels the center portion shows through, but having a black hole hides the background showing through.

The downsides are that the city image is gone down the sides of the edge of the screen (not that you really noticed it on the original pages), and on really really short pages you can see the bottom portion of the city on the original but on the modified image, it's just black (like the normal and long pages are on the original). This would only really affect the error pages etc. Most pages would be unaffected by the background image height change.

Another optimization I was thinking was to add a third option in the bottom pulldown theme, where you could choose Hero or Villain theme/skin. Perhaps a "Lightweight" option could be provided, where the background is suppressed altogether and various other graphics are reduced in size (like the City of... logo). It would really go a long way to restoring the ability to sneak onto the forums while at work (during my break, of course)!

Anyhow, just my 2 cents on trying to save the pipes of the interwebs from being clogged up.

My min-max strategy involves me maximizing the number of great players on the team so I can minimize my effort.