Laptop gets very hot while playing FM 10

The following spec:

Dell Inspiron Intel Celeron 900 @ 2.20GHz

3GB Memory

Windows XP SP 3

Any of you guys got any ideas of how to cool the computer down while playing?

What is your laptop resting on? Make sure it has a lot of ventilation

Keep the vents clear. Run as little programs as possible at the same time. It is best to use a laptop on a hard surface as well rather than a bed for example.

Yeah I always make sure it's not covered up. It still gets very hot when it has good ventilation

have you got it connected to the mains when your battery is fully charged? This will make it overheat and also over charge your battery

Have you checked that inside the case the fan isn't choked in dust?

If it's been a year or more since you last checked it could be worth a try.

Some good advice, the laptop is just under a year old. Haven't looked inside at the fan to be honest. I do try to unplug the charger when its fully charged.

Laptops are notorious for overheating, mine started getting so hot it would shut down, so I got one of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002PQSJ6O/ref=oss_product

Not had a problem since.

You should chock it up, put a book under it so it gets better ventilation, I do it and my laptop doesn't heat up very often

Laptops are notorious for overheating, mine started getting so hot it would shut down, so I got one of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002PQSJ6O/ref=oss_product

Not had a problem since.

My brother made up something similar for his College laptop, and it worked like a charm.

How tech-savvy are you? I haven't tried it myself, but apparently under-volting can help reduce the temperature - though it may also break the laptop.

my laptop crashes when playing FM WITHOUT charger in.

Even when fully charged up it crashes when i go to play a match day and completely shuts down.

But if I have the charger plugged in, regardless of battery life, it plays no probs.

any suggestions???

I second the dust comments - clean out the fan vents with some compressed air sprayers that you find at office supply stores. Two years ago I had the same problem - FM09 heated my laptop (Core 2 Duo 2.16ghz and 2gb RAM) to close to 90 C during play. I cleaned out the vents and the temps dropped to much more reasonable 75 C or so.

A fan under the laptop could help, or perhaps even having a fan blowing across the keyboard - the processor may be closer to the keys than the underside on your model.

Dell laptops are known to have an over-heating issue and mine kept shutting down during FM even when on a laptop table when it is being fully used. The compressed air is a long term solution but i found that vacuum cleaning all the fan vents and fans worked too so i just do that every month and works fine now. Hope this helps.....

A laptop is bound to get hot when your running a game with such a large database and the need for a great processor. I've bought a Mac and my Mac gets warm sometimes even hot. What i'd suggest is investing in a laptop cooler. Try not to buy too cheap of a one because they really ARE different. Thats pretty much all you can do unfortunately. I know many of these people suggest cleaning out the dust etc, but at the end of the day you're still going to have this issue.

Try monitoring your temperatures using a program called Core Temp, and your processor can go about 67-77C, but lets try and keep it around 50-60C as your playing this game because its a laptop.

If you need any help just let me know!

Just know, that if your computer is idle and you're still reaching those high temperatures of 60-70C, then you have a problem and will have to notify dell, and based on what Romeo Valentino has said, you're probably going to have too.

That's a very useful program. Thanks Trikstaa

A laptop is bound to get hot when your running a game with such a large database and the need for a great processor. I've bought a Mac and my Mac gets warm sometimes even hot. What i'd suggest is investing in a laptop cooler. Try not to buy too cheap of a one because they really ARE different. Thats pretty much all you can do unfortunately. I know many of these people suggest cleaning out the dust etc, but at the end of the day you're still going to have this issue.

Try monitoring your temperatures using a program called Core Temp, and your processor can go about 67-77C, but lets try and keep it around 50-60C as your playing this game because its a laptop.

If you need any help just let me know!

Just know, that if your computer is idle and you're still reaching those high temperatures of 60-70C, then you have a problem and will have to notify dell, and based on what Romeo Valentino has said, you're probably going to have too.

really good application, thanks for sharing it

i have a fan running in the air fent and it seems to do the job

Thanks everyone