Toshiba Sattelite A135-S2386 LOW FPS ??

[mta630]

Hey everyone,

My names mike, and i have been an avid gamer for many years now.

At the moment, I'm in the middle of building a computer, which i only need a new video card, and processor for. But thats not what this post is about.

So anyway,

I Bought the Toshiba Sattelite A135-S2386 , For Business Purposes. But, being the gamer i am, i needed to have at least 1 game installed on it :freak:

This game is Warcraft III Frozen Throne.

An older game which does not require that great of a pc to run well.

My problem is that even though this laptop should run this game perfectly well on all high setting graphics, it runs choppy at any type of graphics setting i use. I have tryed all combinations of in-game graphics settings
All Resolutions i have tried, nothing helps.


The specs on this laptop are:

MS WINDOWS VISTA SP1
GENUINE INTEL CPU T2080 @ 1.73GHZ (DUAL CORE)
1.5GB RAM
ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M SERIES


I know for a fact that overheating is not the problem, i have the laptop on its side next to a box fan closed at all times, using an external monitor.

I use CCleaner, Advanced Windows Care, and AVG Anti Virus 8.0 . All daily so i know that my computer is clean from any kind of registry problems, or adware and spyware.

If anyone could help me out with getting my wc3 to run smoothly, i would be greatly appreciative!

Thanks in advance!!

Also, i used to run world of warcraft on this computer, and that only got 8 - 10 fps on all low settings, when i know it shouldve gotten somewhere around 20.


EDIT: YES, i Have installed the latest Drivers For My video card.

 

[mta630]

I dont know if this makes a difference but

It is an online game, although my i dont think latency is the issue because im running at 27 fps consistently

 

[Jorsoft]

Have you downloaded the latest patch for the game, by chance? It may be a compatibility thing with Vista or with your Xpress 200m.

Try updating your sound drivers as well if you haven't, that can help, too.

 

[mta630]

Sound driver was updated yes, also all patches for world of warcraft and warcraft 3 are up to date.

ive heard of people getting over 25 fps in wow with their 200m's

how come i only can get 5-10

 

[carnageX]

Tried running on the laptop's screen instead of a secondary monitor?

 

[Jorsoft]

What's your start up items look like? I'm assuming you disabled everything unnecessary but maybe not. Toshiba comes with a LOT of preinstalled crapware. Check out your msconfig and give us the list or a screenshot.