Hey everyone,
I recently bought my first laptop from Best Buy...it is a Compaq Presario V2424NR with a 1.8ghz 64 bit AMD Turion Processor, 512 mb ram, 100 gig hd and the ATI200M graphics card. After doing some reading online I was under the impression that this card had 128mb DEDICATED memory but now I have found out that I would have needed to get the card with HYPERMEMORY to get dedicated video. I was hoping to get at least average gaming performance from this laptop, but I installed and am having some major problems playing Far Cry. I turned the video settings on the game to auto detect what video quality to play it at and it seems super slow; it will freeze on certain parts of the gameplay and the framerates are really choppy. I was really hoping that the graphics would run alot better on this laptop...what can I do (if anything) to allow it to run this game reasonably well? Is there anyway that my 200M video card could be upgraded to the hypermemory version of the card? I can't imagine that adding RAM would increase the graphics processing speed all that significantly but maybe I am wrong. I really like everything else about this laptop, I just wish the video performance was a lot better...Any one have some suggestions (I am running the laptop as it came from the store except I updated windows and installed some anti virus and spyware software, maybe some setting adjustment I dont know about in winodws would help)? I really dont want to have to return this laptop and pay the 15% restocking fee...but if it cant run graphics very well I think I will have to do this.
Thanks for any help!
Dan
I recently bought my first laptop from Best Buy...it is a Compaq Presario V2424NR with a 1.8ghz 64 bit AMD Turion Processor, 512 mb ram, 100 gig hd and the ATI200M graphics card. After doing some reading online I was under the impression that this card had 128mb DEDICATED memory but now I have found out that I would have needed to get the card with HYPERMEMORY to get dedicated video. I was hoping to get at least average gaming performance from this laptop, but I installed and am having some major problems playing Far Cry. I turned the video settings on the game to auto detect what video quality to play it at and it seems super slow; it will freeze on certain parts of the gameplay and the framerates are really choppy. I was really hoping that the graphics would run alot better on this laptop...what can I do (if anything) to allow it to run this game reasonably well? Is there anyway that my 200M video card could be upgraded to the hypermemory version of the card? I can't imagine that adding RAM would increase the graphics processing speed all that significantly but maybe I am wrong. I really like everything else about this laptop, I just wish the video performance was a lot better...Any one have some suggestions (I am running the laptop as it came from the store except I updated windows and installed some anti virus and spyware software, maybe some setting adjustment I dont know about in winodws would help)? I really dont want to have to return this laptop and pay the 15% restocking fee...but if it cant run graphics very well I think I will have to do this.
Thanks for any help!
Dan
