Another 200M post......HELP!

I recently bought a Toshiba A105 laptop for $399! I wasnt really looking at the Toshiba's buy for that price I could not pass it up! I also added a stick of 512mb of RAM for a total of 768MB minus 128 shared with my fully shared video for a total of 640MB. I loaded Black and White 2 and it is not even playable, even with the settings on low! I thought for sure this card would play this game. I dont know the actual frame rate I was getting but it was so choppy it wasnt even playable. No drivers I get from ATI will even load and I cannot find a newer driver for this card. They only ATI driver I have is from the Toshiba disk which the driver date is 11/2005, surely there is another driver out there. HELP!

Here are the specs:
Product Height 1.5"
Product Width 14.2"
Product Weight 6 lbs.
Product Depth 10.5"
Processor Brand Intel® Celeron® M
Processor Speed 1.7GHz
Display Type WXGA widescreen TFT-LCD with TruBrite technology (1280 x 800)
Screen Size 15.4"
System Bus 400MHz
Cache Memory 1MB on die Level 2
System Memory (RAM) 256MB I added 512 768total
System Memory (RAM) Expandable To 2GB
Type of Memory (RAM) PC4200 DDR2 SDRAM
Hard Drive Type Serial ATA (5400 rpm)
Hard Drive Size 40GB
Optical Drive DVD-ROM/CD-RW
Optical Drive Speeds 8x max. DVD-ROM; 24x24x24 CD-RW
Graphics ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M
Video Memory 32-128MB (shared)
Modem 56 Kbps ITU V.92
Networking Built-in 10/100Base-TX Ethernet LAN
Wireless Networking Built-in Atheros high-speed wireless LAN (802.11b/g)
S-Video Outputs 1
Audio Realtek 861 16-bit stereo sound; supports 3D Sound, Direct 3D Sound, DirectSound DirectMusic and MIDI playback; SRS TruSurround XT virtual surround sound and SRS WOW audio enhancements; HD audio
Speakers Built-in stereo
PCMCIA Slots 1 Type II
USB 2.0 Ports 4
Battery Type Lithium-ion
Pointing Device Touchpad
Operating System Windows XP Pro

For $399 i think it was a bargain, all I changed was an added 512MB RAm and a clean install of XP Pro.

 

try omega drivers.... but i doubt that you will see much of a perfromance increase the 200m is a weak card....but the shared version (the one you have) is weaker

 

No chance of running B&W2 with that card, even low end desktop cards have trouble with B&W2. Check here

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/graphics/charts.html?modelx=33&model1=308&model2=282&chart=83

A desktop X600 can only scrape along with 10fps @ 1024x768. A 200m just is not going to cut it i'm afraid.

 

Yeah that game puts the beat-down on a videoboard. The x700 in my old Compaq struggled with it at higher settings.

 

I didnt relize that it was that graphic intensive, my desktop X800XT plays it fine but I thought WOW had better graphics than Black and White 2.

 

Considering you have a powerful desktop, I'd stick to that for gaming and use your laptop only when you have to. The X200M is a weak card and is not designed for gaming, especially the shared version.

 

The Omega drivers helped quite a bit, thanks! But Black and White 2 is still too much for this card.