Why do my games STILL lag even with my laptop being brand new with great RAM and hard drive space?

Sem1990

I'm trying to run WoW at maximum graphics with 0 lag, as in 50+ FPS, however when I'm in combat situations or in populated cities it drops to around 20-30. I don't understand this considering how great the machine is, am I doing something wrong? Is there something I can do to fix it?

Don't just say to lower the graphic settings in game... It's a 5 year old game on a brand new fast laptop, it should run perfectly with 50+ FPS minimum. Here is my system information.

Vista Home Premium
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU, P7350 @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz
4 GB of Ram
64-bit OS

Video Card - NVIDIA GeForce GTX260M with 2815 MB of total graphics memory

Shouldn't this laptop be running games flawlessly? What am I doing wrong?
Forgot to add- I have 204 GB of free space on a 286 GB Hard Drive.

Answer
Well...

#1 More hard drive space is only half the hard drive battle, the speed of the drive is arguably more important.

#2 Your CPU is rather low end, ESPECIALLY for a gaming rig.

#3 Your GPU totally doesn't match your CPU, and to have only one of them be pretty good and not other other will bring down your total performance.

#4 Battle situations will ALWAY lower your FPS because it takes more out of your system because more is happening on the screen than just running, all systems see FPS drops in action environments.

#5 Doesn't matter how old a game is, matters how well the graphics are rendered.

#6 Your RAM is only 4GB, and probably only DDR2 800MHz/DDR3 1066MHz...most gaming rigs have 6GB of DDR3 1333MHz


20-30 FPS still isn't anything to complain about...if you really want it doing more then you will have to disable/close more background programs, take out services and programs you don't need from booting with your computer, tweak your OS, and run the game at slightly lower settings.

whats the better hard drive for a gaming laptop?

Carl M

im playing on geting a laptop from alien ware and idk what kinda harddrive to get just a single hard drive or a raid 0 or raid 1...i dont know much about raid so plz help and thx

Answer
Raid 1 is for security, don't bother with that. Raid 0 increases speed but you need two identical hard drives. Gaming performance is uneffected by the hard drive, only the initial load up times and save times will be faster. Also, I don't believe you can use raid arrays on laptops. If you can, it's the type of laptop that might as well be a desktop, that gets 10 minutes of battery power.

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Can I recover a CD key from a broken hard drive?

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Eli

My brother had a game on his laptop. Hard drive fried. Now tried to download game on new laptop and says its already used because of old one. Can it be retrieved?

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Unless things changed it doesnt usually show your cd/game key on the game or hard drive. Sorry.

What is the best gaming laptop money can buy as of today?

Alex

I just got a job and I would like to save up to buy a nice gaming laptop. I only care about power, not hard drive space or screen size.

Answer
Get a desktop. Cheaper and more powerful.

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If i have a laptop can i just replace all the parts to make it a gaming laptop?

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Jordan T.

I am making a laptop for my friend, he wants a gaming laptop, i know i can get a pretty cheap laptop. I would be able to replace the RAM and Hard drive and motherboard and graphics card, etc, right?

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On a laptop, you can relatively easily change the RAM and harddrive.
Changing the motherboard, CPU, GPU is a far more difficult and complicated story.

It can be done, but it's not worth it AT ALL as you will be limited in the parts you can choose from than when working on a desktop (compatibility issues)

My advice is just to find a laptop that already has powerful parts. Unlike desktops, it would be more expensive if you buy a cheap laptop and then try to find good parts to go with.

how do you transfer data from a internal hard drive to an external hard drive?

malcolm199

Hi, i have a gaming laptop, as u might have guessed, i use it mostly for gaming. i just bought an external hard drive so i can store my installed games on it (such as steam). but how do i do this? how do i transfer my installed games from my main hard drive to my external? (or any other installed programs)

thanks for answers :)

Answer
You do not need to re-download games as Bobby suggested.

First I need you to know that this is a horrible idea, if you move your steam games to external drive or any game for that matter it will probably reflect badly on the performance of your games.
That is because your external hard drive is connected to your computer through an USB which is 20x slower then the normal hard drive SATA connection.

Here are the instructions if your still interested:

1.Plug in your external hard drive USB key into the computer.
2.Open steam.
3.Open library
4.Right Click on the game that you want to move to your external drive
5.Select Backup Game Files and follow instructions. Make sure that you change the transfer directory to your hard drive
5.When you are done with all the games uninstall steam from your computer completely and then reinstall it on your external hard drive
6. Later on when you try to install games just link to the directory and steam will handle it

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