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Answer» Hello, I got a brand new Compaq CQ50 LAPTOP a few days ago. I went to www.systemrequirementlabs.com and was overjoyed when I saw that I passed the minimum specs for Call of Duty 4 (My old Laptop was so old, it couldn't play Warcraft 3 without freezing every 2 seconds). I bought the game and installed it on my Laptop this morning. When I finally came around to play it, it turned out to be really laggy and choppy even when I turned the textures to low and changed the resolution to 800x600 (recommended settings was high textures and 1280x800). I have saved my Dxdiag system INFO and posted what I think is useful information. If ANYONE can take a look at it and see whats going on, that would be great. ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 10/21/2008, 16:56:26 Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Basic (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080917-1612) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard System Model: Compaq Presario CQ50 Notebook PC BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.1 Processor: AMD Athlon Dual-Core QL-60 (2 CPUs), ~1.9GHz Memory: 1790MB RAM Page File: 956MB used, 2871MB available Windows Dir: C:Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 10 DX Setup Parameters: Not found DxDiag Version: 6.00.6001.18000 32bit Unicode --------------- Display Devices --------------- Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G Manufacturer: NVIDIA Chip type: GeForce 8200M G DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC Device Key: EnumPCIVEN_10DE&DEV_0845&SUBSYS_360A103C&REV_A2 Display Memory: 877 MB Dedicated Memory: 238 MB Shared Memory: 639 MB Current Mode: 1280 x 800 (32 bit) (60Hz) Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll Driver Version: 7.15.0011.7566 (English) DDI Version: 10 Driver Attributes: Final Retail Driver Date/Size: 5/3/2008 08:39:00, 5545984 bytes WHQL Logo'd: Yes WHQL Date Stamp: Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4B05-11CF-026E-011602C2CA35} Vendor ID: 0x10DE Device ID: 0x0845 SubSys ID: 0x360A103C Revision ID: 0x00A2 Revision ID: 0x00A2 Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_C ModeVC1_C ModeWMV9_C Anyways... Does anyone think it has anything to do with my RAM? Because it currently is 1.7 GB and the "recommended" specs say it should be 2 GB. I could easily decrease my display memory to 238, which is the amount installed on the chip and add the extra 639 MB to my RAM. Anyways, thanks for reading my post. I would definitely get more RAM (maybe another 512mb stick or a 1gb stick) Also, I would cut down your startup items. Go to Start and type msconfig and click on the result. Go to the Startup tab and disable as many startup items as you can (unchecking them - don't uncheck antivirus software) Press OK and restart the computer. (Note: You can run disabled software in Windows)I could add 600 MB of extra RAM if I could find out how to change my shared memory amount... My video card has 200 something dedicated memory and about 600 shared.You don't actually meet the minimum requirements for the game.Minimum Requirements: System: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or faster or equivalent RAM: 512 MB Hard Drive Space: 8000 MB Other: GeForce 6600 / Ati Radeon 9800Pro or better Those are the MINIMUM requirements to play COD4Quote Minimum Requirements: Quote --------------- the 8200M may SOUND better because its a higher number, but it is an onboard GPU. the 6600 is an independent GPU. to put it simply... 6600 > 8200M |
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