halo 2 on hp pavilion dv6335eu

hi guys,I'm new here and I bought a notebook about two months ago..and I tried to play halo 2 on it,but it " lags" a little,especially because of my shared video card.
I was wondering if it would make a difference if I expande my ddr2 ram to 2Gig.would that help?or would it be a waiste of time..
for specification of my notebook,see my signature

thanx in advance

 

Although your graphics card is a DX9 capable one, it's a very weak one, it's strong enough for only DVD hardware acceleration or some old (pre-2000) games.

Halo 2 is also a very slow running game. It needs as fast a computer as something like Bioshock (yet the game still looks like an upscaled version of the Xbox original). The 5-10% performance penalty with the required OS (Vista) compared to XP doesn't help things either.

Personally, i'd return the game for store credit and buy an original Xbox or Xbox 360, and get the Halo Triple Pack (H1+H2+Map pack for H2).

 

You usually can't return a game for credit. Most companies only allow exchanges for the same game, and only when the first one is defective.

I would recommend getting 2 GB of RAM to speed things up overall, even though it won't help with Halo.

 

well that' s what I'm thinking about....expanding it to 2gb of ram.....but will it help..even a little?just a little...beceause I think that vista suck much of the ram away and leaves nothing for halo..what do you think?

 

i dont think it will

halo2 may not have amazing graphics but i remember even halo 1 required decent grunt to run well. RAM only helps increase the video card buffer so it wont need to load more often, it will nto improve performance in general.

 

Id say 2gb of ram is a requirement for any gaming machine playing anything after 2005.

Textures and things take up that ram space and if you dont have the ram, performance dies big time due to page filing.

However your gpu is really on the low end of the spectrum, having extra ram wont help your rendering performance any, chances are your settings are so low to play the game with that card that your not using up nearly as much memory as somebody that plays with high settings so the ram wont help in the game much, however your system as a whole will speed up ALOT, especially with vista.

 

Even with 12 terabytes of ram Halo 2 will just no run right on a 6150.