Laptop Question - Will This Upgrade Run This Game?

I work security, and the main reason I don't play MNC for PC constantly is that the laptop doesn't run it. I don't care if it runs it barely, I could at least play blitz offline at work if it ran at all, right?

Well, currently I downloaded Steam and MNC on this laptop. It will load the first loading screen, the screen will go dark trying to load it up, and I get a "windows has to close this" message. I figured, of course it won't run, my laptop is from 2002 and only has these specs...

~Intel Celeron M 1.46GHz (Don't BOO Me, I Know It's Bad!)
~1Gig Ram 1.47GHz
~ATI Radeon Xpress 200m

Then I thought, it only costs 1/3rd of a cheap new laptop to get just an upgrade for the current laptop. So, I looked up, and found that my Toshiba Satellite L35-S1054 is limited on what parts it will accept. What I looked up says that I shouldn't trust anything more than 2gb ram (the motherboard might not accept more, depends if it is 64bit, doubt it is), or anything more than a core2duo. The graphics is integrated, it will take system ram to run, and isn't upgradeable.

This is the question. Will it run this with an upgrade? These are post-upgrade specs...

~Intel Core 2 Duo T2350 1.86GHz
~2Gig Ram 5.33MHz
~ATI Radeon Xpress 200m (<-Can't do anything about this)

Not sure about the video card, but the other two are fine.

Good, Good. Now, anyone else run this game with "integrated graphics" here?

By which I mean, go to your device manager, and see if under display you have:

ATI Radeon
NVidia GeForce
Intel GMA

I really sincerely doubt you will be able to run MNC fluently. As it is, my dedicated Radeon HD 6370M is barely able to handle MNC on modest textures alone.

To put into perspective on the graphics horsepower your Xpress 200M has, you are honestly looking at or even below netbook performance. The Intel GMA 4500MHD wields twice the power of the Xpress 200M, yet is only able to manage 20 fps playing CoD on all low settings.

Furthermore, you are aware that to upgrade the CPU, the entire laptop will have to be dismantled down to it's motherboard?

Might want to consider something else then. Too bad. O well, I'll just save up I guess.

And 20fps is probably even enough that I could play support pretty well. Doesn't take huge latency advantage to play support, unlike sniping. If I could get it running at 14fps, I would settle for it. I used to play engineer on C&C Renegade on a really slow computer, and did pretty well, and the Repair Gun doesn't even lock-on in that game lol.

EDIT: Yes, I know how to disassemble and install things to a laptop, and have done it before, and not with this laptop but I found a youtube video for this laptop so it will be fine. TO GIVE YOU THE FULL UNDERSTANDING I HAVE OF COMPUTERS: I have repaired 30 computers over the last year, 6 of them were hardware, 20 of them were viruses, 14 were software/memory crashes. Plus, didn't I figure out what was wrong with your internet connection? I may not have a computer degree, but I have all the knowledge a computer repair man would, guranteed.

:lol:

I've seen so many idiots on other forums, it's kinda become monotonous, generally when they talk about wanting to upgrade a laptop, I inform them on how much more complex a laptop is compared to a desktop in terms of upgrading. The replies I get are of disappointment.

You can upgrade a laptop quite extensively with a dremel, hot glue, a soldering iron, wire, hot glue, and some duct tape.

Oh, and new parts. Don't forget those.

(For reference, I get 20-30 fps on my laptop with:
Core 2 Duo T7200 @2.0 GHz
4GB RAM, dunno the speed D:
nVidia Go geForce 7900 GS 256 MB
No fragmentation on a 7200RPM 500GB drive

at minimum in-game video settings and resolution at 1280*800 on a 16:10 screen.)

Ok, I got all that, I just need hot glue. I have hot glue, but according to your directions, I apparently need 2. :mrgreen: :ugeek:

Anyway, glad to hear that those specs fetch 20 fps. I will probably get within acceptable range then. Feeling optimistic!

More hot glue = more power. It's like flame stickers on a car. Istroo. /sagenod

Also, since the last patch, I've been noticing occasional stutters - FPS drops to 10-15, stays there for some period of time that seems to be defined by how much is going on on-screen when the drop occurs (as in it's not triggered by things happening, but extended by them). It only lasts 1-10 seconds, but it makes the game pretty much unplayable during that time. Happens sporadically, at 5-10 minute intervals at most, sometimes not at all.

Anyone else running into this?