Upgrade memory, video cards, flash drives? What is the best?

I have a Toshiba Satellite L305 - S5957 bitb with Windows 7 32. I have a lot of downloaded games I play and my computer and he slowed down a lot. This is what seems to indicate that I can improve the performance by adjusting the Visual effects. A friend suggested to put all the games on a bunch of flash player adding another more Ram.Somebody suggested that I get a video card. How do I p [ay my games and still have enough memory to my computer run?] Here's what I spent my system for graphics.

Thank you

Luggiana

 
  Type of view map Mobile Intel (r) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
  Total available graphics memory 830 MB
  Dedicated graphics memory 128 MB
  Dedicated system memory 0 MB
  Shared system memory 702 MB
  Display adapter driver version 8.15.10.2226
  Resolution of the primary monitor 1280 x 800
  Version of DirectX DirectX 10
 
     
     
      
     
     
     
     
     

Hi Luggiana,

your laptop is not a true "game system.

(1) a graphics integrated solution as "Mobile Intel (r) 4 Series Express Chipset Family" is not sufficient for most 3D games. They can work but slowly and far from that possible framerates.

(2) for most of the games, "available total graphics memory" is a phantom value. The only thing that matters is "dedicated graphics memory. In your case, which is 128 MB. Not bad for older games (2000-2006), but certainly too little for newer games (> 2006). Some games will not work with less than 256/512/1024 MB "dedicated RAM".

(3) "computer memory" is a minor problem here. The 'shared RAM' will cut certainly some amount of your available RAM total but it won't help in problem gambling, and it is rare to play a game while performing other tasks consuming memory.

(4) put the games to a flash (SSD) drive is also a strange idea. You will get more benefits if you put your operating system (Windows) on this subject. The operating system must respond to all the interventions of the user and program requests, here the speed is an issue. A game, on the other hand, follows its routines, it must store temporary data much, so relying on a certain minimum of RAM but things like quick / fast writes are not so important.

"192GO should be enough for everyone." (of the miniseries "Next generation jokes")

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