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A problem I do not understand

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February 6, 2011 11:19:34 AM

Hello all.

I'm having problems with my new laptop computer. First off, my skills in computers and hardware are quite low.
How ever. I just cant understand this.

I'm a World of Warcraft player, like so many others.

I have had a Dell stationary computer for a good while where I ran the game at full detail etc. and had a FPS
at around 40 in highly populatet areas of the game.

Old comp spec:

Intel Core Duo E6850 - 2.99 GHz
3 GHz RAM
NVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512
Windows Vista 32Bit system

I just bought a new laptop from Acer. http://www.acer.co.uk/ac/en/GB/content/model/LX.R4402.0...

AMD Phenom 2 N850 Triple core 2,2 GHz
ATO Mobility Radeon HD 1024 GHz
4 GHz 1033 RAM
Windows 7 64 system

Now with my new comp I cant run the game as fluid as the old one.

WHY? ;..(

Any help appreciated :) 

Best regards.




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February 6, 2011 1:26:29 PM

IT would be the laptops IGP video chipset vs. your old discrete 8800 GT --- the 4200 is not really designed for gaming -- it is a laptop chipset and thus is made for conserving battery life not playing games !! -- according to this notebook video chip review site Laptops with the 4200 average 31FPS on Low settings and drop to an unplayable 17FPS on medium settings -- so your performance sounds about right for a laptop based on that chipset !!

A $450 laptop is not going to perform anywhere near the same as a $450 desktop unit and is more for doing your homework and surfing the net playing a few flash based games for higher perfoemance gaming a good laptop is going to be quite a bit more $.
February 6, 2011 1:34:16 PM

I'm starting to see that I have made a poor choice. Will just have to make the best of it.

Cheers for the reply mate.
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