Vista requires about a gig of memory to run smoothly (and that's with a lot
of the features disabled) so hopefully you only need to upgrade your RAM,
and not your video card or anything a bit more pricy
"Andy" <android8675@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Counter_Strike" <Counter_Strike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>>I just bought a new laptop and installed D2 on it. I can get the game to
>> run, but as soon as there's any video demand my frame-rates drop from
>> 50-60
>> fps to single digits.
>>
>> Is there any way to tweak video settings to get around this?
>>
>> The game worked great on my older laptop even though it had half the
>> memory
>> and a much slower processor.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> New Laptop, I was unaware that there was only 1 kind of laptop out there.
> </sarcasim>
>
> Post your system specs, be through as possible.
>
> -a.