Obviously you're not going to divulge much information, but I'm assuming the failure rate on these (as they're your god tier) laptops is pretty low?
And I'm also assuming that refurb QA is pretty good - and you'd only release the product back into the wild in as-new condition? I'm used to buying 2nd hand/refurb kit, but not at such a premium price, so I'm a little bit hesitant
What's the track pad like? Does it have windows precision drivers
In Nvidia panel can u select the Game in question and set it to max performance i believe its called or overide system settings? Maybe that wil force it to use the GPU. are u playing in window mode?
Thought I'd stick my head in here again just to say how excellent this laptop has been for me since January.
Have certainly put it through it's paces with various games, as well as travel, using it almost every day and it's been as solid as a rock.
Here's hoping it will continue to be solid for the next 3-4 years at least.
Thanks jonney. I think the issue was actually the games themselves. I have installed a few more games and most seem to work as expected but GTA IV and Episodes of Libert City seem to have a problem. I was trying in full screen mode but Ive given up with them now, just fancied a bit of GTA IV nostalgia but I can live without them.
Hi @mambo1888 - thanks for choosing Gigabyte AERO15 and passing on the feedback about our forum interaction, we hope it contributed to your purchasing decision.
Nice trade-ins, always nice to read that
Regarding Warranty, no its not affected and the machine does have 2 x M.2 bays, so you can install additional without removing the installed 512GB SSD, and upgrade that one as and when required. (The newly installed SSD's wouldn't be covered by warranty obviously, just the original parts supplied)
We would probably recommending doing it that way round and use the new drive as additional storage.
Hope that clarifies, and again thanks for choosing AERO15.
Regards,
Gigabyte UK NE Team
maybe try F9 recovery
Thanks jonney. I think the issue was actually the games themselves. I have installed a few more games and most seem to work as expected but GTA IV and Episodes of Libert City seem to have a problem. I was trying in full screen mode but Ive given up with them now, just fancied a bit of GTA IV nostalgia but I can live without them.
Thanks @Atom80, I done as you suggested an installed the 970 evo as a storage drive (getting the back off was quite a nervy experience, she is on tight lol), so I have 2.5tb which should keep me going for a while. So far very impressed with the Aero, especially the size and looks. I was initially a bit dissapointed in performance with ssimple tasks like openin folders or using chrome quite laggy, but after going through the smart update and getting all the drivers updated and changing the setting while on battery up a bit it seems to be running a lot better. Yes reading throuh this thread definetley helped me make my decision
Ive had a few issues with games such as GTA IV but i think that is an issue with the game rather than the laptop. PES 2019 was running poorly but agin I think that is the game, I have changed the refresh rate to 60hz and that runs good now. The only other issue is GTA V, after launching it says cpu clock speed is lower than minnimum spec, and while the game seeemed to play ok the menus were very laggy. Not had a lot of time to mess about with it yeto maybe there is an easy solution for that.
Im back offhore now, and having a laptop that can do office, web browsing, netflix etc off the battery for a decent length of time and be able to play gamess to pass the time at night all in the laptop this size and weight is amazing. Looking forward to putting it through its paces over the next few weeks
