COD4 is not running as fast as it should.

[thewhalenguy]

I have a brand new laptop-HP Pavilion DV9700- with 3 GB of RAM, GeForce 7150M, AMD Turion X64 Dual Core 2 GHz. It's running on Windows Vista Home Premium.

After checking www.systemrequirementslab.com, it said that my laptop was just below the "recommended" bar and exceeded the requirements by far.

I installed COD4, used the "Automatically Optimize Settings" feature, and lo and behold, everything was set to a high setting.

I was impressed because it's a lot better than my desktop, and so I hop into a game and everything gets very choppy, and was unplayable. The game is updated, as are the drivers and even Punkbuster. The ping was also spiking erratically.

I tried tinkering with the settings and was distressed to find that even using the smallest resolution with the lowest possible settings, the game was still running below 30 FPS.

I also tried playing counter-strike:source, and it too recommended high graphic quality settings, but the game was unplayable due to a very low FPS.

Same problem.


So, the question is, what could I do to improve gameplay even if I greatly exceed the minimum system requirements?

Oh, and I already completed a virus scan and a spyware scan using AVG.
and there aren't any background processes running (any unneeded ones).

[l337_GuY]

Best you could do is try update all your drivers, make sure your laptop is clean of spyware and viruses, have a cleanup of your registry with Ccleaner (www.ccleaner.com) and other temp folders.

Also end unnecessary processes, from startup or before you enter the game use task manager to end processes from taking your resources.

i think 1 major limitation is the onboard graphics, which is always awful to play games on, but also it is a old 7150 which is one of the lowest end 7 series chips.