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Run Guild Wars

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ailetlvo

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AMD Sempron 3000+ 1.8GHz
1128MB RAM
128MB ATI Radeon Express 200M

Those are my laptop stats. I'm trying to get Guild Wars to run. Some people suggest to run the game in DirectX 7, but I'm not sure how to do that. Soo, any help on making that happen and any other advice on making the game run decently will be appreciated.

Note: I have not received the RAM yet so once I get it I will be able to try it out and see how it works. Since I can't upgrade the video card, I figured I'd boost the RAM and pray.
 
The big question is whether that's all dedicated video RAM or not. I have a laptop that's remarkably similar to yours (l only have 512mb of RAM), but Guild Wars plays fine for me. The difference might be that the Xpress 200M in mine is all dedicated video memory. If you're using shared RAM, you might be in some serious trouble.

When I say "fine", I mean playable frame rates at 1280x800. It's not 60 FPS by a long shot, and towns lag a bit, but I can _play_. If you can get the resolution down some (say, 800x600?), I suspect it'd be absolutely excellent. Such is the pain of a widescreen. (I ought to try 800x500 in Powerstrip one of these days...)

-Erwos
 
You should be fine playing with that. I play it on the intel onboard graphics, a 865G I beleive. It lags a little but plays it quite nicely for being a onboard graphics. I was under the impression the 200m was a little better but I am not sur how true that is. By the way my laptop is a Dell 1.4 celeron M with 512mb ram.
Are you having trouble playing? What graphic settings are you using?
 
GW will run just fine on that. I was running it for a little while on a Radeon 7500, which I believe is at a similar level as the 200M integrated graphics, if not a little bit lower. Just play with the settings until you have it running smoothly.
 
Yea yesterday I was running it in 800x600 and it actually went a lot smoother than before, though still noticeable lag. I moved it up to 1024x768 and it still ran decently but in populated areas choppiness was abundant. Of course, the settings are all the way down but whatever. I decided to scratch this laptop; no sense in trying to make it more than what it is. My parents bought it for 550 on some circuit city deal 3 weeks ago so I'll try to sell it for 450-500. It's pretty much brand new, even the stickers are still on it. I'll use the money toward a better laptop, or at least one that will run games on a decent level. With that in mind, any suggestions? Lol.
 
I'm surprised. I had it at 1024*768 at medium settings and there was very little choppiness, ever.

If you want suggestions for a laptop, it would help to have some more information: what size and weight you want, what games you want to be able to play, what your budget is, etc..
 
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