I am playing on an older laptop, as well. While you are shopping around for your new one. I suggest you uodate your current stuff. I have the Intel 4 Chipset Family, went to their website and searched for any updates to my laptop. Then, in the game I lowered all the settings to low or minimum, and well it is not perfect, it is now playable. I, myself, would like a better gaming laptop. Who doesn't want to use the best graphics the game has to offer? Good luck! Oh, and I agree with some of these other posts above. My favorite wesite is Newegg...