[quote who="Lucky_Jack" reply="6" id="3655357"] could it be that the screen itself has expired? [/quote] That's my assumption. The screen stays totally black. I haven't removed the AMD card yet, but that's a good idea and I'll try that this weekend.
Thanks for your views. As I said, I'm not blaming Galactic Civ III, I just would like to understand what happened. Regarding ventilation: The laptop was standing on a table, nothing was blocking air intake, ventilation was audible (not broken) and at least on the surface it didn't get that hot. No overclocking. Regarding Lucky_Jack : Inte
Dear community, dear tech support, I recently purchased and started playing Galactic Civilization III on my Dell Workstation [Intel Core i7-2720QM (2,20GHz, 6MB Cache, Quad Core), AMD FirePro M5950 Mobility Pro graphics card (1GB GDDR5), 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Dual Channel RAM]. For reference and to preempt comments that my set-up is outdated: On the same machine I have played 100+ hours of Total War Attila, 25+ hours of X-COM 2, several hours of the Endless Space 2 Alpha and many more g