WilliamTheBloody

[/ QUOTE ] This thread tells us how to achieve the best Quality (for those systems that can handle it), not performance.

Obviously, if your system "has to be set to the lowest graphics quality.... to run at normal speed", then raising the quality is going to slow you down. You answered your own question.

You have a 7150M.. you better stick to the lowest settings. You wont get any better quality without interfering with your performance.

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Well that was part of my question, are my computer's specs too weak to handle the game with hi settings or was it possible I was doing something wrong or missed something. I am not an expert on computers but I am running a brand new computer on a 4 year old game. I'd expect it to be able to handle it. Is the quality of the video card the problem? What video card would I need to upgrade to to be able to handle the higher settings?

I tried using the settings from this post for my new laptop which has to be set to the lowest graphics quality in game settings for the game to run at normal speed and it did not help and slowed my game to the speed of a turtle. I doubled checked all the settings mentioned and tried lowering the ones indicated for slower systems, but it did not help. Here are my laptops specs:

Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv6700
AMD Turion Processor 64X2 2.0 GHz
3GB RAM
My video card is a GeForce 7150M
My drivers should all be up to date and I am not running anything else while playing.

Is there any other info I could provide to determine why the settings didn't help. I just purchased this laptop 6 months ago and I really would like to play the game at a decent graphics quality. Is my computer gimped? My previous computer was older than dirt so I am not that computer savvy and this is my first MMO game. Thanks