Hi I don't know hardly anything about computers, except mine sucks. Its a laptop notebook pc, compaq HP with windows Vista home basic. This is my
first step into the world of online gaming, I know I'm outdated maybe more
so then my laptop. Anyways I bought city of heroes, and my first month of play which is free is just going to waste because everytime I go to play, it crashes, and when I do actually get to play it its for about five minutes and its slow, as well as momentarily freezing. Half of the create-a-player options aren't even visible, yet my audio is fantastic. The laptop is great for watching movies and surfing the web, however those aren't my intensions. I need help and as said I don't know much about computers, but here are a few things I do know about mine.

MANUFACTURER: HEWLETT-PACKARD
MODEL: PRESARIO C500
SYSTEM TYPE: 32 BIT
MEMORY RAM: 502 MB
PROCESSOR: INTEL (R) CELERON (R) M CPU 520 @1.60GHz

IF I NEED TO LIST MORE INFORMATION TO GET THE PROPER HELP PLEASE
GIVE ME A STARTING POINT. ONE THING I KNOW I WILL NEED TO
UPGRADE IS THE MEMORY, BUT CAN SOMEONE TELL ME HOW MUCH I'LL
NEED TO PLAY ABOUT TEN HOURS A DAY, OR MORE. OH AND PLEASE HELP,
A CHICK OUT BY LISTING CHEAP YET EFFECTIVE UPGRADES TO GET.

You can try this scan for particular games:

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest

In general laptops are not going to handle high end games.

Not even the best ones. They are just not made for that type of work.

Thanks I'll check it out.