I'm a bit of an amateur at this technical stuff so I would appreicate any help/advice I recieve. Thanks in advance.
I'm getting a new laptop (taking recommendations, but nothing too expensive though please) and is looking at the Compaq CQ60-420SA Laptop (branch of HP?)
I'm comparing this with the SE FFXI system requirements and recommendations
The Compaq has an AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core Processor and a NVIDIA GEFORCE 8200M graphics card. (More advice on the graphics card please, I've had trouble with them in the past so I would appreicate any information on the best performance in FFXI with which etcetc)
SE recommends a Intel® Pentium®III 800Mhz or faster processor (or recommends Intel® Pentium®4 processor, and has a list of confirmed graphics card from NVIDIA and AMD(ATI), but the list doesn't include the 8200M card the compaq has.
I'm wondering if FFXI would run on the Compaq, run semi-smoothly, and if the Compaq is a decent choice overall.
I'm getting this new laptop because my old one's graphics card died. There were lines and color after the login screen etc, as well as having a problem with the nvlddmkm.sys error a month ago. Any advice as to how to remedy this? or would the best option be to get a new laptop as my warranty is already over? I'm sending it to the HP repair shop regardless, would I need to replace the entire motherboard(?)?