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Low FPS in games on my laptop, want to re-install XP but have no disc.
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Basically this has happened to my laptop before - my fps in a game will start out at 70 whilst every 30 seconds or so dropping to 40 fps. Then it'll run games at 50, whilst dropping to 20 fps, then eventually get locked at about 15-20fps.
The last time this happened I just sent the laptop off for repair - but I don't want to do this, as the guys who run the repairs seem to be absolutely retarded, and spent about two weeks longer than they should have last time round for a simple system wipe. Seriously, I called them up asking where my laptop was, some guy claims 'I have it in front of me, I'm putting it on the van now, RIGHT NOW' and then the next day I called and a different guy starts going 'yeah this should of probably left the warehouse by now' and well, you get the picture. Four days in a row.
Basically, I need to know if there's a way I can completely wipe the system back to its original blank XP install without an XP cd - the laptop only came with an XP key on a sticker on the back, and a CD with some drivers.
In case you're interested, the laptop is from rockdirect.com and well, I wouldn't recommend their repairs system too much.
The last time this happened I just sent the laptop off for repair - but I don't want to do this, as the guys who run the repairs seem to be absolutely retarded, and spent about two weeks longer than they should have last time round for a simple system wipe. Seriously, I called them up asking where my laptop was, some guy claims 'I have it in front of me, I'm putting it on the van now, RIGHT NOW' and then the next day I called and a different guy starts going 'yeah this should of probably left the warehouse by now' and well, you get the picture. Four days in a row.
Basically, I need to know if there's a way I can completely wipe the system back to its original blank XP install without an XP cd - the laptop only came with an XP key on a sticker on the back, and a CD with some drivers.
In case you're interested, the laptop is from rockdirect.com and well, I wouldn't recommend their repairs system too much.
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You may be able to contact Microsoft and tell them your key and get a disc shipped out to you.
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Im running an HP Entertainment Laptop with a nvidia GE Go force 61XX. Its relatively new, less than a year, and on WoW I was getting 40fps at best and now with something like Call of Duty 2, even with the graphics in game set to the lowest level, I can get maybe 35fps at best.
Any ideas how to go about improving this, or is it just the video card and Im screwed?
AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile
1.61 GHZ, 992mb RAM
256 MB