Issue with a specific game ignore built in heat protection?

Normally when a game pushes my GPUs temp above say 85 it will swap into a low power mode to cool down some, seeing as its the middle of summer here that happens pretty fast which is something I can deal with.

However whenever I play the Sims 3, this doesn't happen anymore. The temperature will keep rising until eventually the Laptop shuts itself down to protect itself (I'm too frightened to find out if this will happen a second time because I dont want to cause any damage to my laptop).

Anyone have any idea why this might be happening? I'm not sure if it makes any odds but i have the M11x R2, 4GB Ram, i7 @1.2ghz & the GeForce GT 335m GPU.

 

I'd try updating intel graphics driver to latest one from intel and then get latest nvidia driver and install that.

I always assumed it was a hardware feature though, so game in question shouldn't matter... since i don't think nvidia are offering GPU firmware updates, thats about as much as you can do short of reinstalling windows... try doing clean installations, to know for sure if it fixes it or not.

mine always throttles down no matter the game, so it is a rather strange issue you have there. my desktop 7900 with passive cooling didn't seem to throttle down either, but wouldn't reboot either, noticed to slab a fan on top of it when i was playing NFS and everything was running fine, but some minute details, like cars not having wheels. Needless to say you could have baked cakes on it.

 

Maybe you could try dropping the GFX quality.