Purchased a gaming optimized Toshiba laptop - not up to standards..?

[Hazim]

Hi guys -

Recently (3 weeks ago) purchased a brand new Toshiba Satellite L505 laptop. I did some looking up about it and it's supposed to be a quality laptop for gaming.

I tried to play a game recently - and it was lagging horribly, I was extremely disappointed. The requirements for the game are:

CPU
Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor or better supported

CPU Speed
Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor or better supported

RAM
Minimum: 1 GB

OS
Minimum: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Windows 95/98/ME/2000 are unsupported)

Video Card
Minimum: 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT or better or ATI Radeon 1600 XT or better

Sound Card
Minimum: Yes

Free Disk Space
Minimum: 12 GB of free hard drive space

I have:

CPU
You Have: AMD Turion(tm) II Dual-Core Mobile M500

CPU Speed
You Have: 2.20 GHz Performance Rated at: 3.74 GHz

RAM
You Have: 3.7 GB

OS
You Have: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition (build 7600), 64-bit

Video Card
You Have: ATI display adapter (0x9712)

Sound Card
You Have: Realtek High Definition Audio

Free Disk Space
You Have: 170.1 GB

Collected these results at Canyourunit.com - and my computer:

Still, whenever I run the game I lag really bad, not even playable. What's wrong..?

 

[mihir]

Try Updating the GPU drivers and also check the temperatures while running the game.Use Realtemp for it and post it.

 

[Cameldude]

I guess you have a ATI 4200 GPU, or tell us what GPU you have (i.e. go start type dxdiag, press enter and go to display, then copy and paste the Name of the GPU), or go to device management. tell us what it is and how much Memory does it have.

I think it is just that the GPU driver has not been installed.
whats the game you are trying to play??

 

[PohTayToez]

Yep, looks like you most likely have the ATI Radeon 4200, as Cameldude says. If you post the full model number I can make sure, it should be on the bottom and look something like L505-S####. I'm not sure where you read that this was a gaming laptop, but it's not. It has decent graphics for a laptop, but it's definitely not geared towards gaming.