[gorbs]

there is no way that game will play on a laptop with 512mb of ram and shared 128 mf of video memory. minimum means just that. to have all the bells and whistles turned on you need a seperate video card and 2 gigs of memory.

my old gaming pc only had 1 gig of memory and i got black floor syndrome and lock up all the time. both my new laptop and gaming pc have 2 gigs of memory and a seperate video card and the game runs great.

if anything get more memory for the system and do a defrag. this game eats memory all day long. and running it on low deatil will help too.