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[Canadian Viper]

Hello,

I just was wondering if there are any way to help get a better game play out of my computer. I have read and done all the cod tweaks listed on the forums, but still find the game a little laggy. Maybe I need to get a better vid card or more system memory. The system I have is:



Intel Pentium 4 3.4Ghz Dual Core

Asus P5LD2 Pentium 4 Motherboard

Intel Pentium 4 Colling Fan

1 GiG of DDR2 ram

250 Gig Hard Drive X 2

256 mb Nvidia Pci-e video card



This is from the bill but not sure about video card in system tray the property for the video comes up Geforce 6500.



I have a cable conection and do not see any spikes on the lago meter.



Any help will be apreciated.



Thanks,



CV

[Canadian Viper]

Thanks Radiation and OMM for the input. Its a new system I probally can get it swaped for a better one. Would larger ram size help out?

[Old Man Mike]

Thanks Radiation and OMM for the input. Its a new system I probally can get it swaped for a better one. Would larger ram size help out?

Additional system RAM beyond the 1 Gb that you currently have would provide no significant improvement for COD gaming.

Old Man Mike

[M@ster of Dis@ster]

The answer is always the video card. It isn't really Nvidia vs. ATI, but rather how good the particular card is. They almost come in four flavors now, ultra cheap, budget-priced but decent, very good and great. And, as some of my "names" suggest the way to tell the difference between them all is price. The biggest mistake gamers make is buying a relatively high end system in most respects, but cheaping out on the video card.

However, I am a tad surprised that a system like you describe has a problem with a game as old as COD, but if there is a problem that is related to your computer and not to you ping time, I'd say it's that video card. Personally, I have a lesser processor, roughly same RAM, but an x800 Radeon AGP. It was in the "good" category, a little expensive, but still 50%-100% less cost-wise than the super-duper high-end or "great" video cards.

Also, comparing a laptop to a destop is a little like apples and oranges. Laptop generally are alway slower than their main specs would indicate because of their relatively slow hard drives and built in video cards, which are never of the same level of the "good" and "great" type video cards.