Well ever since my 3 year old HP laptop finally crashed on me a few months ago (taking my old Gazelle City region with it), I went out and bought a new Sony VAIO NS130 from Circuit City. The computer has Vista Home Premium, Pentium dual core 2.00ghz and 4GB of RAM. Seeing as how it ran on my old laptop (AMD Turion dual core 1.6ghz, 1GB RAM, 256MB Nvidia GeForceGO), I figured that the game would run wonderfully on the Sony. I was a bit strapped for cash this time around and got a good deal on the VAIO ($549 +200 for a now worthless Circuit City warranty). The computer runs Vista very well in its highest graphic settings and all that with a ton of stuff running even, but when I finally installed Sim City and went to play the game, I was instantly dissappointed. Even on a medium sized map with a 22,000 resident city, the game is really slow to render and it gets worse when you try to scroll across the map. It gets so bad the more the game continues in time that its annoying the point that I don't want to play it anymore. I was thinking that it was due to the fact that the laptop has that Intel GMA integrated graphic nonsense. I've tried to see if I could direct more processing power and RAM towards the video memory, but the setting for the GMA driver are pretty redudant. Even closing out all other programs doesn't really help and now I'm very dissappointed with the computer that I was once happy with. Any suggestions?
