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how can i get this to run better? plz help if you can

hellbaithellbait Member Posts: 1
in City of Heroes
im on a laptop that i bought in the past 6 months, so its fairly new, but its not a gaming laptop.

ive got 2 gigs of ram, 1.6 AMD Turion 64 x2, and ATI 256 onboard. i would think that it would run it alright but its pretty choppy at times, even with everything turned to low or off. ive got the newest vid card drivers and such. any ideas?  im on the 14 day trail and i really want to keep playing but if it doesnt get better then i might have to think twice. please help

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  • INDECLINEINDECLINE Member Posts: 27
    what is your onboard video card? although anything onboard is usually crap... im just curious.  i wouldnt recommend gaming on a laptop unless its something really good and the laptop is meant for gaming...they heat up too damn fast.

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  • VaedurVaedur Member Posts: 430
    Originally posted by hellbait

    im on a laptop that i bought in the past 6 months, so its fairly new, but its not a gaming laptop.

    ive got 2 gigs of ram, 1.6 AMD Turion 64 x2, and ATI 256 onboard. i would think that it would run it alright but its pretty choppy at times, even with everything turned to low or off. ive got the newest vid card drivers and such. any ideas?  im on the 14 day trail and i really want to keep playing but if it doesnt get better then i might have to think twice. please help
    I have a very simular system, w/ a 200m chip, same issues you have.. not much you can do hellbait, the mobility chips don't support open GL like they should.. infact i've complained to HP so much, they want me to ship my laptop to them, semi-admitting an issue..
  • AmarsirAmarsir Member UncommonPosts: 703

    Laptops and onboard video cards will always be lagging a bit. You should be able to get it to a good playable state though.

    The #1 recommendation I can make is that you find the "particles" slider and move it all the way down. Way down. No, farther than that. Seriously, even farther. Yeah, practically off.

    That one quality in particular, people think "well this is an average system, I'll put it in the middle" but that kills them. And visually, 500 particles vs 100,000 isn't actually that big a difference.

    To really get serious about smoothing out the "visual lag," I'd recommend starting in Safe mode and then scaling up from there. Starting at the minimums and moving up is much more encouraging than randomly guessing too high and moving down over and over.

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  • SickpupSickpup Member Posts: 382
    sounds like an ATI 1100 that shares system memory.gonna need to drop your resolution too.in the end it will look pretty bad.
  • beauxajbeauxaj Member Posts: 245
    Something is definately off, I play Coh on my laptop thats less than half of what you have (a643200, 768meg ram, 64mb ati9600) and it runs pretty smoothly.  I only get chop after playing for 5 hrs when VM runs out.  Even with shared mem on the Vid card you have twice the ram i do.  What OS are you running?  How many processes do you have running?
  • yac709yac709 Member Posts: 76

    Try setting the sound to 'Compatibility' mode.
    That made a world of difference for me.

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