Lag with video games

Crysis on a 9400M? GIve up, that laptop will barely play DirectX9 games - update your drivers but that probably won't help much.

I really just use the editor that comes with it and it's worked fine for me in medium graphics settings. But it seems like this problem with games is happening with a lot of people, and not just on super high graphics games. All my Half Life 2 games can run fine accept with my problem.

P.S I use about 45% of all the space on my copmuter

Check for program compatibility: Open the Program Compatibility troubleshooter.

If they are older games (XP or older) you can try compatibility mode: Make older programs run in this version of Windows.

Cheers,
Tara
Windows Outreach

I've already done that

Have you updated all your drivers? Use the guide in my sig and get the latest DirectX 9 too.

I'll give that a shot and report back

I've installed the new drivers, but should I still run in all the combatibility modes?

Nope, didn't work really, made it go a little longer without lagging though

Try compatiblity mode with Vista SP1 and Running as Administrator. I don't think you need any extra options. Disable any unessential background processes too.

It just doesn't work