MajorDeath Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 My Dad recently purchased a Laptop with Windows Vista Premium. He is currently using this Laptop to play World Of Warcraft and would like to know how to increase the Graphics power on his laptop as the game does not display well (Lots of Lag).I would like to know if it is possible to increase the graphics power. And If so how? He has turned off Aero and all the special effects but to no avail. Please if you can help do.Thanks in advance.~MajorDeath Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubba Bob Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 (edited) Hello! Some specs on the laptop would really help us out. (ram, CPU, graphics card, etc) Probably the only way you're going to be able to reduce the lag, other than spending money, is to lower the quality settings of the game. Edited October 22, 2007 by Bubba Bob Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MajorDeath Posted October 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 We have lowered the quality settings down to all on low but it still doesn't work... Ok here are the specs.Windows Vista Home PremiumGenuine Intel® CPU tr080 @1.73 ghz0.99 gb ramMobile intel® 945Gm/GU Express Chipset Family minimum graphics memory 8mbmaximum graphics mempory 251mb Quote Link to post Share on other sites
isteve Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Your using onboard graphics that shares memory with the RAM. You didn't tell us how much actual RAM the machine has but first off maxing out the RAM may be a big and only help. Also when you say you have lag what is lagging is the screen jittery or freezing with lots jaggies? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mikex Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Also is the game online, I knew a guy who played WoW online and complained about the lag through the ISP.I don't know much about gaming but when you say "lag" I think of the delay over the lan or internet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
garmanma Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Some motherboards BIOS will allow you to specify the amount of RAM to allocate for your video processor. You might have a look there. I would still up the memoryMark Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 As previous posters said, the main(only) thing you can do is to add memory. You can get a gigabyte for about $40. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sethook Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 We have lowered the quality settings down to all on low but it still doesn't work... Ok here are the specs.Windows Vista Home PremiumGenuine Intel® CPU tr080 @1.73 ghz0.99 gb ramMobile intel® 945Gm/GU Express Chipset Family minimum graphics memory 8mbmaximum graphics mempory 251mbWhat is the make and model of this PC? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
garmanma Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 "maximum graphics mempory 251mb"Probably a Sony laptopMark Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Honda_Boy Posted October 28, 2007 Report Share Posted October 28, 2007 that is a horrible graphics chip (actually it's your laptop's mobo's chipset). Since it's a laptop, your stuck with what ya got. The 945G is a terrible graphics chip. My laptop has the same thing only I'm rockin a crappy Celeron 440 (1.86GHz) with 1.5GB of DDR2 533 RAM and the dern thing can't even play Half-Life straight. The ORIGNAL 9-YEAR OLD Half-Life. My old laptop (Sempron 2800, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M, 512MB of DDR 333 RAM) played Half-Life 2 about as well as this POS plays the original. Man I miss my old laptop. Motherboard fried on it.So yeah Intel Graphics kinda suck particularly in laptops. The best would be to get a laptop with a dedicated graphics solution but they are more expensive. As far as I know though, Alienware laptops are the only ones with upgradeable graphics solutions. There may have been other companies with it since I last check but I don't know. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MajorDeath Posted October 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2007 Its Advent.Its not the ISP making the lag because we play on other PC's using the same network. Thanks for the help guys. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rhema7 Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 Its Advent.Its not the ISP making the lag because we play on other PC's using the same network. Thanks for the help guys.The only suggestion that can be given is to access the bios and increase you GPU resouces if it is not already max'd out.If you were using XP you could have used a program called Game XP to make it easier to shut down background processes that eat sys resources during game play.i sugest you create a user account with stripped down background proceses just for gaming. It may help some. As metioned in another post most Laptop are not designed for Graphics performance but you should be able to play WOW fairly decent I believe if you kill the background stuff. Also find out exactly what your Specs are and max out the RAM if you can (may not be necessary if you kill the resource hogs during gaming).Preston Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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