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Posted May 27, 2011
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revial: The physical act of replacing the card is not an issue. It's the severe limitations in what card you can use, availability of said cards, any flashing you may have to do, etc, etc.

At this point, I'm just going to assume no matter how often that is hammered into you in this thread, it's pointless. :p

Good luck!
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Belthazzar: im just a guy, who doesnt like using word "pointless" ^^
well... guess I cant avoid it
Belthazzar todays online pc stores offer a wide range of pre-made pc's built for a budget and gaming these days. So if you have a budget im sure we can all help you find something. =)

Altho since your on a laptop im guessing no monitor, keyboard and mouse aswell?.
Posted May 27, 2011
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Skoltnik: what do you mean by vram shared?
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chaosapiant: Laptops sometimes have what's called "shared memory" where the onboard video and system ram are shared. So, if the user has 4 gigs of ram, and the video is sharing 3 gigs of it, he only has effectively 1 gig of memory which could cause massive stuttering and lag.
cool, did not know that thanks
Posted May 27, 2011
Back when I was trying to get my lowly laptop (equipped with Intel X3100) to play a number of newish games I remember a little program called 3DAnalyze, which allowed me to turn off certain intensive settings in games. Worked wonders for many of them. You might check that out if you're desperate for performance, though I have no idea if it'll work with the Witcher 2.
Posted May 27, 2011
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Belthazzar: hm, I want to play it smoothly so hard that I am gonna take my birthday money and buy new card, would that solve the problems?

...also, how do I find out if my video memory is shared?

and do you have any suggestion for one under 200e?
PS: I heard not every card can be installed to laptop, so take in mind it should be able to do so :P
well when replacing a laptop GPU, you need to take into account several specifications such as the wattage of the GPU, the socket type it uses (only MXM socket cards can be replaced) as well as having the knowledge to open the laptop and install it. Still though, the mobile graphics chips are seriously difficult to come by unless you do it through the laptop manufacturer. but even then there may be no option to do so unless you have a gaming specific laptop such as an alienware or an asus G-series laptop which would usually be more accepting to hardware changes such as a GPU upgrade. but for run of the mill pre configured machines you get at your local tech store, chances are you will be stuck with what you have. There are alternatives such as the "Vidock" setup which basically allows you to make use of your laptops ExpressCard slot and connect a full sized desktop graphics card. but this is a costly way of doing things and also requires you to use an external monitor while the card in the ViDock adapter is in use.
Posted May 27, 2011
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Belthazzar: still... on lowest settings it shouldnt be so bad. I dont play many games, but those I played recently (Dragon Age 1/2, Mass Effect 1/2, Fallout: New Vegas, Civ 5, Portal 2) I almost always ran on highest settings (with exeption of DA2).

It bugs me that suddenly there is a release that is unplayable even with everything off...
Good luck w/ Metro 2033 then...
Posted May 27, 2011
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Belthazzar: hm, I want to play it smoothly so hard that I am gonna take my birthday money and buy new card, would that solve the problems?

...also, how do I find out if my video memory is shared?

and do you have any suggestion for one under 200e?
PS: I heard not every card can be installed to laptop, so take in mind it should be able to do so :P
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Kurgen: As has been said, you can't just remove and upgrade any old vid card in laptops. Only very few can be upgraded at all, and eve those are ultra-specific in terms of what you can upgrade them to. Frankly, unless you spend a cartload of money on an uber-lappy, you're looking at a new desktop PC in the region of 500e or more, to get the kind of performance you're used to seeing on your PS3.
I hope they patch the 16:10 ratio bug in the next patch? because I hate not playing in full screen when running at 1920*1200.
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