COD 2 crashing, runs poorly on m1530

I am getting extremely frustrated with gaming on my m1530; nothing works as it should. I just bought COD 2 off steam, and it frequently crashes. In fact, it has crashed 3 out of the 4 times I have attempted to load it. 2 of the crashes occurred during cinematics (different cinematics), and the third happened as I attempted to resume a game. What is more, the game runs far worse than I expected; I was expecting to be able to run this game at near max settings, if not max (2.4 ghz core 2 duo processor, 4 gigs ram, 8600m GT). I can run COD4 with high settings and 1680x1050 resolution at about 20 fps: with cod2, I get 12 fps as soon as I max out my resolution. Can anyone help?

I run windows XP sp2.

 

Check the battery settings(set to high performance), update the drivers.

 

Is it to late to return your dell for a refund?

 

Well for one, you have Windows XP SP 2, which doesnt have all the drivers.

People actually had to find them and depending on your configuration, might not work.

I would say COD2 should work like butter.

Call Dell up and ask for a replacement if it does that in other games, try a similar one.

Peace

 

go into your steam settings and disable community in-game. also try turning off AA in the in game settings. i had the same problems.

 

switch to directx 7 rendering already.

definitely wanna upgrade your video driver first (laptopvideo2go.com)
if you insist on playing in directx 9 mode, try disable shadow, no AA, run in lower resolution like 1280X800.