I'm looking into getting a laptop computer very very soon, it's primary use will be for programming and RCE tasks. So naturally I want to load all my latest tools on it.

My question is, has anyone ever loaded SoftICE on a laptop? I mean, it should still work, but will there be any problems with the video ?

The laptop I'm looking at is the Toshiba Satellite S225, it's a pentium 4 2.4Ghz with 512megs ram, and an Nvidia GeForce4 420 Go (32meg) video card.


Has anyone else here used their laptop for this purpose - and were there any troubles?

-nt20

I use it all the time on mine.

The only problem i have is when i get to debug games.. As soon as it steps into 3D, my breakpoint tend to give me bluescreens.
Generally faulting into the ATI drivers.. (the card is an ATI radeon mobility, 16megs)

I didn't bother trying to fix it, when I absolutely need to debug gfx intensive stuff (which is not very frequent), I just use my desktop (geforce2 btw)

Another thing I was wondering was if softice affected in any way the power management scheme of my laptop... when the fan should be started, etc...

SI 4.05 works fine for me on a win2k system (Windowed).
DS 2.6 / 2.7 do not work due the gfx card (Trident Cyberblade i1) causes several problems. The system freezes.
I use a Gericom 1 Ghz Notebook.

Hi,

DS2.7 works fine for me. My video card is ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 64 Mb. This type of video card is not allowed to work in full screen mode; using 'universal video driver', softice works well in windowed mode. Your video card is not in the list, you will need to run sice in windowed mode.

ZaiRoN

I prefer Windowed mode by far anyway !

-nt20

Me too

I have it on a Winbook with Windows XP.

One sticky problem I did found was the mouse.

Sice ( DS2.7) Does not understand very well the touch pad or the mouse stick.

For a while I had to re-learn to use Sice with Keyboard commands only. Then I found that Sice has no problems with a USB connected Optical Mouse.