Hi, I appreciate you have probably been asked this a trillion times and I apologise profusely for asking this but I am a complete novice when it comes to computers.

I bought my mum a Hi Grade Notino W5700 a few months ago as a gift, it has:-

Intel Core Duo T2130 (1.86Ghz) processor. 2Gb DDR2 RAM. 160Gb hard drive. 15.4in TFT widescreen colour display. Integrated graphics. Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic.

Now, she has purchased SBK 08 - game requires a 2.2Ghz processor and an Nvidia 6 or 7 series graphics card / Ati X1300 or higher that supports Pixel Shader 3.0 - and has found that the game won't run. She tried down;oading the latest Direct X but it says installed correctly but still refuses to run saying Direct X error.

I think I am right in saying that the integrated graphics card is rather pants - however I don't know whether it is possible to upgrade the graphics card somehow. My initial investigation (several days trawling thousands of sites) is that as it is integrated that the motherboard would need replacing. However Hi Grade don't say what type of board they use, and I cannot find anyone that seems to know what they use or what would work.

My questions are:-

1. Am I right in thinking this is the problem?
2. Can the graphics cards be replaced or another fitted to correct this fault?
3. If both should or need to be replaced, what to buy and where to get it?
4. Is it worth just buying a different laptop?
5. If I have the wrong end of the stick, wha tcould be the possible causes?

Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

This cannot be upgraded.

Notino W5700P-2250

Sorry.

And that being said no laptops are very good for gaming.

Modern graphics cards are almost as big as laptops themselves.


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