A question about EB 1.1

**julius_caesar_the_first** · 10-25-2008, 10:21

I have been thinking of upgrading my ram from 525 to 2 GB (the maximum possible for my laptop) because it wouldn't be so expensive. But at the moment I don't have the money (maybe I'll give myself a Christmas present

). As for the graphics card I've been told by a knowledgeable friend that it's almost impossible to upgrade it.
Oh and I've managed to get it to work at an acceptable speed with a bit of tinkering in the BIOS (the knowledgeable friend did that) and an update to my graphics driver.

**/Bean\** · 10-25-2008, 12:58

Laptops are far harder to upgrade due to lack of space and the size of the components. If you want your EB to run as best as possible, use a PC. However if its working now, its up to you.

**bovi** · 10-25-2008, 14:46

Originally Posted by julius_caesar_the_first

I have been thinking of upgrading my ram from 525 to 2 GB

That's your problem right there. Still, if 2GB is the max in your laptop the whole rig may be rather dated. You may want to save up for a full upgrade.

**mcantu** · 10-25-2008, 18:00

i just ran EB against my stopwatch...

from the time the EB spash screen shows to the time the main menu appeared-- 1m, 42s

from main menu to campaign map-- 20s

**/Bean\** · 10-27-2008, 10:58

46.7 secs
11.2 secs

Thats not designed to be showing off, thats proving that it works

**julius_caesar_the_first** · 10-27-2008, 12:19

Well I'll see about upgrading my RAM but since games are secondary to real life I think I'll just tolerate the slow loading speeds. Thanks everybody.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 10-27-2008, 14:39

To see if your laptop supports upgrading (not all laptops do, as some of them are constructed in very efficient but impossible to re-assemble ways...) look in the manual of your laptop.

EDIT: @Bovi: I think he meant 3GB of RAM, and not 2 which means it's the well-known limitation of 32bit processors. That's not outdated, yet.

**julius_caesar_the_first** · 10-27-2008, 17:44

I already checked and it is upgradeable (two slots for RAM memory, of which one is unused). I din mean 2 GB of RAM. I don't know anything about limitations but I wouldn't want to spent too much on this. In fact 2 GB seems a lot to me.

**bovi** · 10-31-2008, 11:44

Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios

To see if your laptop supports upgrading (not all laptops do, as some of them are constructed in very efficient but impossible to re-assemble ways...) look in the manual of your laptop.

EDIT: @Bovi: I think he meant 3GB of RAM, and not 2 which means it's the well-known limitation of 32bit processors. That's not outdated, yet.

2^32=4294967296 = 4GB. A limit of 3GB would be just plain weird.