new laptop specs

Just brought a new laptop and just wondering if it is good enough to run CoX comfortably. It does seem to have some issues at times and I was wondering if there is anyway fr me to improve its performance.

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.1.1.8---

DxDiag gathered at March 3, 2010 14:00 (+00:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
System Manufacturer: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
System Model: R519/R719
BIOS: Phoenix SecureCore(tm) NB Version 07CI.M052.20091124.JIP
Central Processor: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4300 @ 2.10GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.1GHz
Memory: 3072MB
.Net Memory Report: 2068MB out of 3032MB available
Page File: 4836MB (1224MB currently in use)
C Drive: (TOSHIBA MK5055GSX) 203188MB out of 230737MB (88%) free
D Drive: (TOSHIBA MK5055GSX) 230643MB out of 230739MB (99%) free
E Drive: (TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L633C) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (32-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Manufacturer / Chip: Intel Corporation / Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Video Memory: 1292 MB
Driver Version: 8.15.10.1883
Driver Date: 01/01/0001 00:00:00
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHDA.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.5919
Driver Date: 01/01/0001 00:00:00


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: R519/R719
Motherboard Version: Not Applicable
BIOS Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
BIOS Name: Phoenix SecureCore(tm) NB Version 07CI.M052.20091124.JIP
BIOS Version: SECCSD - 6040000
BIOS Release: 20091124000000.000000+000

Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1024x768
3D Resolution: 1024x768 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes

Physics Quality: Medium
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No

Anti-aliasing: None
Anisotropic Filtering: None
Texture LOD Bias: Crisp
Water Effects: High Quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: Unknown (3)

World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of Extra Player FX Enabled: No
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.600

Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.600
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 157660 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1600.20100114.8T
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\City of Heroes\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

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Most of the specs are in the "ok-ish" range. But the big issue here is the video card. CoH doesn't play nice on Intel's integrated cards. For that matter any integrated cards. But especially Intel's. Horrible horrible video cards.

You could try updating the drivers for the video card (They look corrupt), but I doubt you'll get any sort of a reasonable boost out of it.

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We'll see....

thanks for the reply flame.

so basically I brought a laptop that can't really run CoH too good great. ill look into upgrading the video card but apart from that is there anything else u recommend?

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You can't really upgrade a video card in a laptop. But try to find an updated video driver from either Samsung or Intel.

As for game settings, turn on the advance graphic settings and turn off/down bloom, depth of field and drop the water effects down a notch or two. Also drop the particle count to 10,000. Then there's always turning off shadows.

Use /showfps 1, to see the current frame rate while tweaking those settings to understand just what affects performance.

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