Mvp 13 Mod : Freeze Unfreeze... And Repeat.

[Seven7]

So I made the move to a new laptop and grabbed the MVP 13 mod instead of hanging onto MVP 08. So I get all installed and setup perfectly... However, every 7 to 10 seconds it freezes for 2 or 3 seconds. I can be clicking through things in Manage Rosters or while inside a Dynasty or even if I just move my mouse around the screen it will still freeze and unfreeze without even have done anything. The game does not crash and I have no problems with starting a game up but in-game it also freezes.

I thought it might have been the graphics options or something to do with my video driver or even Desktop Windows Manager handing the screen but none of that resolved anything. I don't really want to go back to MVP08 at this point.

Has anyone come across this before?

[Yankee4Life]

There are enough Mvp 13 support topics around and lately there seems to be a lot more. Please search the next time.

[Seven7]

I am aware of the freezing that is corrected sometimes by installing explodeme through a desktop directory. I do not think this is the same issue. Before I delete what I did with my install and try it again via desktop install I was asking if anyone has had this issue where the result ended up being something video related and not necessarily mod related.

I've been around 9 years on here and I do search before posting but if a search result comes up blank I then post about what's going on. I should have mentioned that I already read through posts and did a search for what my ailment was as part of my initial post here. I never saw anyone mention if an issue ended up being video related because that is what I suspect it to be, given a similar issue I had with Excel.

Thanks for the reply, though. I hope I can figure this thing out if nobody has any suggestions for checking on if it might be hardware/OS related instead of Mod.

[Yankee4Life]

Thanks for the reply, though. I hope I can figure this thing out if nobody has any suggestions for checking on if it might be hardware/OS related instead of Mod.

Well the main thing here is getting past this nagging problem since that is the main issue here.

I'm no expert and I won't pretend to be but this really could be a hardware problem. Usually the problems we get hear about with season mods are the game crashes while it is being started or it crashes loading a game. You don't have that.

[Homer]

do you have the specs on the laptop? sounds like a hardware issue to me as well.

[Seven7]

Sure do.

Dell Latitude E6410
Windows 7 (sp1) 64-bit
Intel Core i7 CPU M620 @ 2.67GHz 2 Core, 4 processors
4 GB RAM
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD
60GB HDD (6GB free)

I might try something stupid and hope it doesn't bit me in the behind with my devices...

[Gordo]

Integrated graphics cards generally don't do well with gaming.

[DaSteelerz]

Honestly, my guess is that it's one of two things.

Try these-

1. Make sure your drivers are up to date. (Audio too!!) Being an older game it's more than likely a hardware issue by what you describe.

Here's one link for that: http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect/graphics

2. It could be a conflict with your processor. Dual core with 4 processors (to be put simply as possible) can have trouble conveying messages to each other causing a conflict. (new hardware old software!) My advice is going to your task manager and select the exe and tell it to run on 2 or even 1 processor. I think on Win7 you can do it by right clicking the exe.

Here's what to do:

Let us know what happens and you can go from there.