My PT3 keeps crashing. Should i buy a new laptop (with ssd)?

[mapp888]

Firstly, When I multi table with my Poker Tracker on, it constantly crashes. (play around 10-12 tables with HUD on) ive literally done everything (upgrade ram, avg pc tuneup, freed space, degragment, pt3 housekeeping, cooling fan etc etc etc). nothing helped. it must be to do with my hard drive speed?

fwiw in my windows experience index, my disk data transfer rate for my primary hard disk is the lowest at 5.9 (out of 7.9)

i currently hav a vaio VPCF12MOE (cost about 1000 GBP this time last year), intel core i7q740 1.7ghz with 8gb ram (and my pt3 constantly crashes).

Im thinking of getting this or something similar:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-GT680-03...2186702&sr=1-1

CONs of getting a new laptop:
1. Ive only had it for about a year and 1 month and a new one would be expensive (im only a midstakes grinder).
2. I can just replace it with a new ssd and problems shoud be fixed provided I install it correctly?

PROs of getting a new laptop:
1. Can get it delivered very quickly from amazon esp with express delivery.
2. No chance I will f*** it up by replacing a new hard drive and pretty much poker and pt3 will run smoothly.
3. Can sell old one when i go to thailand to effectively cut costs on new laptop.

What do you guys think? Suggestions of what i can do to fix my pt3 would also be welcomed..

also with the pt3 ive already tried tuning wizard. and tried both 3.11.6 BETA and 3.10 version. not played around too much with the postgres thing tho (apart from tuning wizard). Not done anything with HUD though...

thanks

[WhiteRider]

Do you mean PT3 literally crashes? That shouldn't happen regardless of your computer specs, and yours sounds perfectly adequate.
If you have a 5400rpm drive then it may be a little slow for heavy use, but it shouldn't crash.
Please report your problem - your logs will have information which should let us see what is going on.

[mapp888]

i will try describe everything exactly:

yeah its very likely i have a 5400rpm drive. A few months ago i dropped my laptop and it didnt start back up. apparently my hard drive was broken. so i got them replaced in thailand and was working fine, they prob gave me a really shitty hard drive. also i remember that when i was transferring files from my laptop to an external hard drive, it took ages, but when my brother transferred the same files from the external hard drive to his laptop (and his was like 2 years older than mine) it took way quicker.

when i multi table 10-12 tables with pt3 hud on, everything is fine. Maybe 10-25 minutes in, EVERYTHING crashes. Basically all programs come to a near-freeze, which makes me sit out at most of my tables, but i usually quit pt3 in time (slowly with difficulty) and everything slowly goes back to normal. i am 100% its pt3. also if i just use import with no HUD its fine 99% of the time

after each crash my laptop seem to run ok but can sometimes be slow (and sometimes when i multi table and use import but WITHOUT HUD, it crashes also. HOWEVER, when i check dis for errors, my laptop seems to go back ro running normally. but ofcourse the same problem happens when i play poker.

fwiw my C drive has 100GB (60 GB free space). D drive has 400 GB ( 296 GB free space).

if that wasnt helpful i ll use that report problem thing

Thanks

[kraada]

Please do - the logs contain considerable information about exactly what is going wrong in the application and we can learn a great deal from its contents.

[WhiteRider]

In your ticket please explain exactly what happens (and/or include a link to this thread) - if you are able to close PT3 eventually then it isn't "crashing" and saying that in your ticket could cause confusion.