Slow Performance

[chillnow]

My Laptop configuration is:
AMD dual core 1.6 ghz turion
ram 1.5 gb geforce go 6150 - memory can be shared with 32, 64 or 128 of the ram.
I have vista basic and win xp wid sp2 both installed.. and use vista bootloader to dual boot.

I run the game Scarface in Win Xp and even after putting all settings to lowest, the game runs slow. It increased performance when i reduced graphic card sharing of the ram to minimum - 32, but still i am perplexed as to why even after well satisfying the minimum requirements my game runs slow.

The minimum reqments of the game are:-
Operating System: Windows® XP with SP2

Processor: Pentium® 4 2.8 GHz or AMD® equivalent

DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card and speakers or headphones

Video Card: DirectX 9.0c-compatible video card (ATI Radeon x800 or NVIDIA GeForce FX 6800) or higher

Disk Space: 5 GB of uncompressed hard drive space

CD Speed: 16x DVD-ROM

RAM: 512 MB RAM

I hope if anyone can suggest me ways to increase performance.
Thanks.

[Vishal Gupta]

You can disable shadow and animation options, unnecessary services, startup items to make Windows faster. Following topics might help you:

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