Okay, I want to upgrade my laptop enough to play Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on at least the lowest settings.
Currently, I have the game and it runs awfully, averaging from about 5-0.5 fps depending what I'm doing. I can get about 5-10 fps by staring at the floor. Especially since this is an online game, I'd need at least 30-40 fps to have a fighting chance!
I'm under the impression it's my processor which is the limiting factor, since processor usage averages at around 95% when using the game with it spending a lot of time at 100% and increasing process priority makes it marginally faster. Also, my processor is pretty crap and doesn't quite meet the same level as the 'Intel Core 2 Duo' in the min' requirements.
As for just general spec's:
* CPU: AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core Mobile RM-70 (x64, 2.0 GHz, 1MB L2 Cache)
* Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon 3650 (512MB Video Memory)
* Screen: 1366x768x32
* RAM: 4GB DDR2
* HDD: 250GB (~40GB free)
* OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition
The laptop model is an ACER Aspire 6530G in case there is anything I couldn't think of.
I've been looking quite a bit for info on laptop processor upgrades and none of it is very informative. Also, there seem to be some very mixed opinions on them, a lot of people say "too expensive, barely any difference", and a lot of people say "very easy, great boost to performance". I would have thought they were talking about specific cases but they seem to think that these rules apply to every upgrade so I don't know who to trust.
I'm aware that getting a better processor (if even possible) isn't going to 'dramatically improve performance' on every game, but if it will give me half-decent performance on crappy port games like BFBC2 then I'm in.
Also, if upgrading IS possible, can anyone suggest any recommendations for processors because I wouldn't even begin being able to figure out what ones would work with my laptop.
Thank you for any help you can give.
