Freelancer on laptop

[Halogen]

On the subject of graphics performance -- I've never gotten FL to run without juddering, even with all eyecandy switched off (except the tiniest bit of background -- plain black is just too "dead").

I've gone through a number of graphics cards, starting with a GeForce3Ti and ending with a GeForce 6150 LE -- to be honest, I have always struggled with mass PvP and trade lanes.

At the moment, Fraps declares a fluctuating 40fps in trade lanes.

What's the lowest spec that runs FL smoothly (i.e. never dropping under 60fps)?

I know you've all probably got hot rigs as your flagship machine -- please don't make me jealous with your overclocked uber-cooled twin GPU's. I really am looking for the cheapest upgrade that will make my FL experience flow like it's supposed to.

Thanks in advance...

PS. My CPU is an Athlon 64 3500+, running on Windows 7 (64 bit) with 2Gb of the best Corsair memory my MB supports -- so I don't think grunt is the problem - I'm pretty sure it's the graphics capabilities...

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