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#1 PS2to-the-end
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Ok, here's the deal, I just got a new laptop for Christmas. It's supposedly a "gaming laptop". However, my first game for the laptop was Supreme Commander. It's a great game and runs well on my computer, but when the game really gets going (large scale battles, lots of on-screen movement ect.) the game slows down, the frame rate starts to stutter, the sound starts to stutter, and one time, it even shut the game down. I really enjoy the game, so i would really like for the game to run smoothly without any of these problems. I am willing to spend any amount of money to make my new laptop a true "gaming computer".

So here's what I'm running: An HP, running 64-bit Vista, an ATI Radeon graphics card, an AMD Turion X2Duo processor 64-bit, a 250gb hard drive, 4gb RAM, and a widescreen HD display that supports HDMI, having 1 HDMI port, 3 USB ports, a lightscribe enabled DVD/CD disc drive.

I need your help to make my laptop a true gaming machine.

So, what upgrades and changes can I make to my laptop to make it faster, better, and more powerful.

I havent made any downloads from the internet or anything like that, i just play supreme commander, and use the internet. im also very careful about the sites i get onto and i have norton internet security virus protection and i am planning to change over to Avast.

what would you get? help plz! :D

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#2 harrisi17
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What exactly is your Radeon graphics card (model), this is most important.

I would have gotten a desktop for gaming as there is no real 'gaming laptop'

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#3 Greyskies87
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Theres not a whole lot you can do as far as upgrading it, youre pretty much stuck. Alot of people are gonna tell you that theres no such thing as a gaming laptop, and theyre right. To play games well you need a powerful videocard, and their big. They dont fit into laptops. Thats why laptops come with "mobile" versions of the chipset, their smaller, but they just wont perform as well.
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#4 Synesthesia-
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If you want to play newer games, you're going to need a desktop PC.
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#5 Subcritical
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Trying to use a laptop for gaming limits what you can do, and there is really no upgrade that will make the situtation better.
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try turning off antivirus programs whilst playing games and yea making the move from norton to avast is a good move

go to the hp website and download the latest ati drivers that they hav for your laptop.... should be in the download or support section

update windows through windows update

download the latest supreme commander patches

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#7 ferrari2001
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try turning off antivirus programs whilst playing games and yea making the move from norton to avast is a good move

go to the hp website and download the latest ati drivers that they hav for your laptop.... should be in the download or support section

update windows through windows update

download the latest supreme commander patches

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^THIS is about all that you can do..
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#8 GPAddict
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Pimp My PC

PS2to-the-end

Sorry, we don't do that kind of thang here.

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#9 Astaroth2k
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laptop?...you failed the first hurdle my friend.