Runes of Magic US / AU

would be better if you had gone with a 3.0Ghz or higher processor (that's where most of your gaming performance starts to be noticeable)... and I've never been a fan of Intel, AMD always seems to run smoother. You have enough RAM to run this, but it's not enough to keep things from lagging on occasion. I don't think I'm familiar with your particular graphics card, tried looking up Aero 5.2 but found little if nothing about it. If you can, I would suggest upgrading your card to an ATI Raedon, at least a 5000 series or better.

All in all, what you have right now is sufficient to run the game, but it will not be lag-free and the graphic quality you're probably looking for. You could probably run on low to medium-low settings and turn off the clothing graphics for your character and you should be ok to play.

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What would be better is if HellsJerome would supply a dxdiag so we could take a look at his hardware and drivers. He can use the link in my sig below if he's not sure how to do a dxdiag.

Commenting otherwise on his hardware is counterproductive.

I agree, price is too high for the laptop spec, but if you're happy its ok. That laptop should run rom with the uneeded settings off and twicking the others to get the best fps. So yea no need to run low to play. mid is achievable atleast.

I have a Lenovo 570, geforce gt 555m with intel's I7 2ghz and 6g ram 64bit W7. Cost about $1300.

I turn off shadows, bloom, water and other players effects. View distance half, character detail and texture detail max, and the rest low.

i get 40fps at badly lagged place(no running from there crappy design) and 110fps in the lag free places. This allows me to see all I need to be productive.

Quoted from "xerosleep;506657"

He has a laptop he already bought so what you are saying isn't possible. And he's not going to find any common laptop with 3ghz. Amd does not run smoother. In fact intel beats AMD in all areas.

Sony, Dell & HP all have laptops at 3.0Ghz for cheaper than what he paid for... but I understand that you're rocking a Toshiba so I can see how it would confuse you.

Secondly, Intel may be a pioneer in new core fields, but that doesn't make them the best. AMD usually waits until Intel has released something, reverse engineers it, works out the bugs that Intel suffers and releases most commonly a better quality product for cheaper. Intel has always had issues with working changes between 32bit software being used on 64bit hardware, but that's because it's designed to work better in an environment where everything is completely copasetic. AMD however excels much more in the opposite situations, so if you're playing a 64bit game on a 32bit system, it has better response time and easier access, again vice versa as well.

To answer the question though, the biggest area you're going to be suffering is with the 4gb of ram, while it may be sufficient to run the game, most laptop computers don't feature graphic cards with on-board memory, which means that in addition to the hundreds of patches & effects that this game is simultaneously trying to render, it's also buffing all the graphical displays through the same memory capacity, which means that you will be suffering significant lag despite if you do something like:

Quoted from "xerosleep;506657"

turn off the water effects and bloom. Turn down the sky effects too. You'll never notice that anyway. And maybe view distance to half. Everything else all the way up.

While it may cause you to squeeze out a few more FPS, it's still gonna be a headache.