VItimmy

heres my cpu it says 2 cores but it shows 4 dunno why.

i recently asked a question regarding playing skyrim on my laptop in the general forums couldnt find the pc. im using a sony vaio vpceb37fd laptop. the question was for trying to get skyrim to play at least 15 fps would be good. following some information from the links provided I ended finding out my cpu was only using 2 cores the other 2 were parked so i unparked them and seemed to have gotten a small boost. now following some info from there i got some graphs and such to show. it seems im only using about 16% of my gpu wich im assuming is whats causing my low fps. is there anyway to get more umph from this gpu flashing bios or anything if someone can hack into the pentigon i should be able to make my gpu do more. this graph is while running skyrim

@guiseppe: thanks for the linkim gonna try that in the morning ive played in the inis a little bit but not to that degree, if that dont work im just gonna give up and stick to my ps3 like believer said.

@believer258: cant remember were i read it but was in the midst of googling my question here i thought it was odd it was something along the lines that the built in monitor takes away resources from the system, something along those lines.

Hi I've done a ton of go-ogling but couldn't find any help. currently im playing on my laptop its a Sony vaio VPCEB37FD win7 64bit 4gb ram intel hd 3000 Intel 15. I don't really care for pretty right now would be happy if i didn't go below 15 fps.ive read that increasing ram with a shared gpu/cpu will help or using an external screen will help but i cant find any real answer. i believe my problem is because my dedicated video ram is only 130mb ive looked everywhere to raise that but it seems it cant be done through bios or anything, ive taken my laptop to staples and i cant change the v card either so im hoping i can just make skyrim playable. ive tried using reduced texture packs and all that but i think it actually makes it worse.its pretty well playable with no mods but if im not gonna use mods then ill stick with my ps3.

before you say it I know i need a gaming rig and im gonna start building one but with limeted funds for toys got other priorities i probobly wont have it finished till the end of the year if im lucky. i could use some in that end to its my first time building a rig have decent enough knoledge for it take apart cell phones and my ps3 and such. just help on what to buy. i got a case coming thats it so far its the coolmaster haf x. thanks for your help