A year ago I got an HP Laptop. It's one of the DV7 series. It's main uses are watching/editing video and a little gaming.
I've been having an issue with it, though, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. While it has a decent set of specs, I have many issues with games and video editing. My system takes forever to load Half Life 2 and after the game finally loads, even on the lowest setting, it freezes up ever few seconds while playing and different parts of the game won't load at all. In other FPS games it freezes up as well. It also becomes "jumpy", where the video freezes for a second then continues, a lot on youtube and when using Windows Media player. I feel like my specs should be giving me much better results than I get with every aspect of using my laptop.
Here are the specs from my dxdiag
Vista Home
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.4GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
6142MB RAM
Page File: 2309MB Used, 10197MB Available
DirectX 11
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT with 3312MB Memory
I guess what I am asking here is if my system is just lacking in power or if some other issue exists, like something that Vista is doing that is keeping me from having optimal performance.