I just want to play the original Splinter Cell on this laptop with a gig of RAM, a Turion and a "ATI Radeon Xpress 1100" card but no matter the resolution and the amount of details I pick in the options menu every character moves slowly as fuck, wtf... there doesn't even seem to be slowdown in the environment
it should be plenty enough horsepower since it's a 2002 game
I don't want to play on Xbox since it has no quicksave function
I don't have access to my PC which has a 8800 GTS and a Core 2 Duo at the moment, but I don't like playing older games on that because it's almost impossible to get the correct aspect ratio on a widescreen monitor since NVidia's drivers have some gay bug
also there's no way to make it recognize my gamepad, I can't stand playing games with a keyboard and mouse interface anymore save for competitive FPS
First, I would see how much shared RAM you have assigned to the card, and perhaps increasing the memory allocation to your ATI GPU.
Second, regarding your widescreen monitor and aspect ratios, check widescreen gaming forums (or google "GAME widescreen", e.g. Splinter Cell widescreen); normally there are commands you can attach to the icon shortcut command line that will set the correct aspect ratio (e.g. for SimCity 4 it's something like "C:\Program Files...bla...bla...Simcity4.exe -r 1920x1080")
Give it a try - it can't hurt too much!
Third, what gamepad do you have, and do you have any drivers installed? Also, what OS are you using?
