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MaxData

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Hello everyone

I am having a problem.

I have:

Packard Bell EasyNote TE69KB laptop.

Windows 8 64-bit
AMD Dual Core Processor E1-2500 1.4 GHz x64 with 1 MB L2 Cache.
Single Channel DDR3 4 GB RAM at 665 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 8240 512 MB 400 MHz GPU Clock DDR3
TOSHIBA MQ01ABD032 SATA Hard Drive 298 GB

I know laptops aren't for games ( Except for those gaming laptops )

I like playing games, but I seem to have an issue.

I played Battlefield 2, but it had compatibility errors, no matter which compatibility mode I try, it crashes to desktop, so I had to run in on a single core by setting affinity in Task Manager.

I also played Call of Duty 2 , lagless, with highest settings.I had Halo 2 installed too, but since its Windows Vista exclusive, I had to run it in compatibility mode for Vista and everything worked.

Now I am playing Freelancer.A mod of it called Discovery Freelancer.

http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=24090&tab=sysreqs

The problem I have is, the last computer I used to run this game had:

Intel Celeron 2.4 GHz
512 MB DDR1 RAM.
64 MB nVidia Geforce4 MX440 AGP8x.

I had some issues playing Freelancer on this old computer, but it was okay.

And with this laptop I have alot of issues.Constant FPS Drop, and I even had 1 FPS at one moment during a space battle in Freelancer.I tried getting more FPS with DXtory and lowering specs in AMD Catalyst Manager, but It did not help.

Should try installing and dual booting Windows 7 and try playing this game ? Will Windows 7 help me in this problem ?

 
You only have a 1.4 Ghz processor. Of course it's slow. It's a gigahertz slower than your old celeron processor.

Freelancer isn't optimized for 2 cores, so it won't run a well on a slower single thread than newer games will. Games that take advantage of both cores are getting a better frame rate, since they can spread the workload between them.

BF2 is the same, it chocked on my old P4 2.4, and BF2145 didn't run great on a quadcore Phenom 2.2 either. They like single thread power.
 
Also, you can't compare desktop and mobile parts directly, they aren't equivalent. Mobile processors have to work with less power and produce less heat, so they are a lot less capable. Your processor is very low end, you shouldn't be surprised it isn't suited for gaming.
 
Well, what you can do is make sure nothing else is hogging your system's resources. Notebooks usually com with loads of bloatware. Before launching the game, check your resources like CPU and HDD (special attention here, it's very easy to reach an HDD bottleneck) before launching the game.

Set the game to the lowest possible settings (resolution and image quality), the work your way up.
 
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