Freelancer on laptop

[Halogen]

We are seeing people with some sort of problems latley with their visual, lags, etc.
For your PC you can run FL without problems, even with a integrated card. Try to see if your drivers are up to date. Do you have directX installed?

see if this post also helps:
http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=54080

Thanks for that -- I definitely have DirectX 11 on and running. Windows reports no available updates for the card, but I'll check on nVidia site later. My symptoms are not quite as bad as the ones described in the link, so it feels like a different problem for me.

I'll keep looking -- but it is well possible that the integrated card is the problem. If I'm going to pick myself a new graphics card after Xmas, I'd like to know (roughly) what my minimum spec is. I'm not terribly interested in running the latest games, so I don't mind getting an older card -- as long as my Freelancer experience is genuinly going to be enhanced. (that's the reason behind my post in the first place)

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