Aion Laptop Performance

[Stellar]

Obviously in certain areas I'm going to be subjected to lag, but I've been comparing my performance to my girlfriends, who has a very similar system and have been trying to figure out ways to maximize performance with my setup. The computer is pretty good, but I still feel I'm getting more lag than I should, where she gets hardly any..

I run a Dell Vostro 1500 T9300 2.5ghz Dual Core
4gb 800mhz RAM
Nvidia 8600M GT
Windows 32 Bit XP

She runs a Mac with XP partition

Dual Core 2.5 ghz
4gb RAM
Geforce 9400M

And I'm not sure if somehow she's running a 64 bit OS for XP, since the mac OS is I believe..

I guess I'm curious if that could make such a noticable performance increase if that were the case and if not what kind of tweaks and such I should perform on my laptop to get the best possible performanace..

Thanks.

[The Stig]

The 8600M GT is vastly superior to the 9400M (9400M is onboard stuff, quite decent for the average joe)

So in this case it's all about your setup/background processes/drivers/etc.

To find out if she has 64 bit Windows, right click "my computer" and go to properties. It'll tell you there.

EDIT:

other underlying stuff can potentially be:

heat - depending on system some of them will underclock themselves

[fishstix]

I have a lower end vostro 1500, and it heats up like crazy. idk about yours, but I know mine doesn't have a dedicated fan for the GPU (8400m gs)

[The Stig]

On the topic of that, there's a lot of issues/mystery surrounding 8400-8600 series cards by nVidia, mainly relating to deaths (and bringing down the whole laptop) and heat.

[Katlan]

Game plays fine on my laptop on medium settings. I will log on at work during slow periods and craft/gather. It lags while a zone load ups and is slightly laggy in abyss since it has to load so much all the time, but overall it's fine for what I use it for while at work

7900 GS Nividia Go (w/256MB DDR3)
2048 MB DDR2

[fishstix]

My friend with the same laptop, he's unable to play aion for more than an hour or else it really starts to crap out. He even used an external laptop cooler

[lesiu]

my old laptop 1,8 Turion, 2GB, ATI x1600m runs aion fine. yours should run great.