How do i get Call of Duty 2 to work on my laptop?

Ok, i have a Dell Inspiron 6400 notebook, with windows vista ultimate, it has an ATI Mobility Radeon x1400 graphics card. im trying to play Call of Duty 2 on it but it doesn't work when i initialize the game, it just stops responding. i've installed Directx 10 and the latest macromdia flash player as well as the v1.5 patch.
I have no idea what to do so please help me
Thanks

 

try running it with xp compatibility.

 

hm... its working fine for me. I got 8600m GT

 

Maybe the pay is too low, i've seen disgruntled employee who won't work because the pay is too low before. Not sure about a game though. I would give it a pay raise anyway.

 

????? thats a bit wierd. funny but wierd.

 

i don't excactly have advanced knowledge about stuff like this, its just pissing me off that i have a nice new laptop but can't play the game that i wanted to get it for, so i'd need detailed insructions for stuff like installing new drivers for the graphics card so the game works

 

did you try running it in xp compatibility?

 

how do i do that?...since i have windows vista

 

right click, properties, compatibility tab, then select compatibility mode and select xp sp2.

 

Wait...what kind of error is it?

 

holy crap that actually worked ,...though i am curious how that worked since its not xp that i have.

o and thanks...alot

 

i had exactly the same problem thats the only reason why i knew.

anyway, have fun playing.

 

I believe the idea is that Vista runs the programs with the same sort of settings that XP would use, so that the program "thinks" it's being run on XP. I'm glad it worked out for you.

 

well now that i am able to start the game, its just not playable. it laggs to much, the fps is too low.
so once again how do i fix this problem? i know it can't be because of my processer (intel centrino core 2 duo)
thanks

 

That might be because of you GPU, or the driver for the GPU is not optimized for vista. Try to update the driver, and lower the settings.

 

I had a problem like this when running Call of Duty 2 on Vista. You can get it running i think by disabling Anti aliasing(when in directX 9) or running it in DirectX 7 mode..

 

nope tried that, i also downloaded the latest driver as well as moded it, but i have alot better graphics, though i still get low fps,so any other ideas on how to better fps, also i have direct x10

 

another thing would i be better off installing an omega driver?

 

Omega doesn't have any vista drivers, I don't think. You could try LaptopVideo2Go.