You must upgrade your video card.
Uhh. You might wanna get a desktop PC. Laptops aren't too good for playing games like Call of Duty 4.
Well, this here might help you :P
http://www.yougamers.com/gameometer/10214/
Getting a laptop for gaming is like getting a Honda Civic to haul a yacht. Get a desktop if you want to game. The graphics card is pretty much worthless, and upgrading a laptop vid card is usually impossible.
If this is what you own already, you're pretty screwed. You can upgrade RAM on a laptop but that's about it, and your config will not run any newish games well at all, if you can even.
Vista is ass for gaming. DX10 is nothing, and it hogs resources so that it gets less performance than the same config would on XP.
Yeah I hate to have to agree with the others but you need to get an all new system for running games. The only reason I bought a laptop instead of a desktop is because I moved out of state and I will be going back "home" fairly often and I didn't want to have to lug a desktop back and forth. I've already been how twice in the last month so the decision is paying off thus far.
1 GB of RAM and Vista Home Premium? Sounds like a recipe for a truly horrid gaming PC if you ask me. It won't run most new games very well at all I'm afraid! 
| fazz said: That's a laptop. That means -5 points for me. I doubt you can upgrade anything besides the HDD (which is probably the best on that machine), if you really REALLY want to game on PC, you should look on building a desktop. |
Laptops can run games... but you're gonna pay for them. I'm trying to think what laptop you're using or have used that you think they all suck. My friend has a nice one with a pentium Quad core at 2.66 Ghz with 2x 512MB GPU and 4GB of ram 320GB HDD and 32GB SSD.. now granted buying something like this runs in the thousands... but he uses it for recreation and his job so much of it was a tax write off.
My point is there are some laptops that will blow some desktops away but they're not common..
I'd say time to take $$ and upgrade if you want to play games. If you don't really want to I'd just save $$ for when you are wanting to buy a new one.
I'm amazed nobody has said this yet, but since your system is obviously a laptop (would have been nice to say it in the OP), you CANNOT upgrade.
You could buy some more RAM, a better HDD and install XP instead of Vista for a small performance boost, but it won't let you play any of the games you mentioned.
souixan said:
Laptops can run games... but you're gonna pay for them. I'm trying to think what laptop you're using or have used that you think they all suck. My friend has a nice one with a pentium Quad core at 2.66 Ghz with 2x 512MB GPU and 4GB of ram 320GB HDD and 32GB SSD.. now granted buying something like this runs in the thousands... but he uses it for recreation and his job so much of it was a tax write off. My point is there are some laptops that will blow some desktops away but they're not common. |
I think you first sentence is the key to your last sentence. You can buy a kick ass gaming laptop, but be prepaired to pay a lot more for it than you would for a desktop of the same spec. I just had to upgrade the ram in my lap top, got a 1g dd2, cost $90 (thank god no sales tax) when I can get 2g dd2 for my desk top for $40.
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