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Originally Posted by SCHUMI-4-EVA
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Lol. The funny thing about that is that my new laptop has that same exact graphics card...
HP Compaq Presario F762NR Notebook PC*-* Product Specifications*
I don't know, maybe it's this new Vista bogging me down. Should I try reverting back to XP? Seems like everything is slower on Vista.
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Originally Posted by Cheesus
Ok, first off, what games do you intend to play, and how big a factor is the graphics quality? Second, do you have a particular screen size in mind? Multitasking going to be a big thing for you? Specific emulators you want to use?
After a quick google of your old notebook, that first one you mentioned is quite an upgrade. The biggest bottle neck you'll have is definitely the graphics card though...
In case you come across something yourself, if you intend to game, a dual core with a 8600GT or Radeon Mobility 2600Pro should be somewhere along the minimum.
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Thanks for the help. I don't intend to play anything serious or something intended for the high end computers of today. Just something that can play games from 2-4 years ago. My main concern is just something that can handle Photoshop/Illustrator stuff at high resolutions and many layers though. I would like to play TF2 at a decent framerate like my other laptop did on moderate settings. Now when I try to play it, the framerate sucks and and it's super slow loading up. Again, is this mainly a Vista issue, or is it because my graphics card is bottlenecking it? Vista seems to be making my computer slower with all of the crap that it's doing in the background. I just added an extra stick of ram to make it 2 gigs, I would have added a third, but there's not an available ram slot. Didn't help much. :/