Ok Here goes... you guys are my LAST resort!!!
So. I purchased a refurbished dell inspiron 1764 from a 3rd party. The laptop works great, Has windows 7 64 bit OS
Intel Core i5 CPU M 430@2.27GHz
The installed memory is 4.0 GB
and the graphics card is the Intel HD Graphics card With 1696MB of memory.
Now.. My issue is i happen to LOVE the sims games. And wanted to play the sims 3 on this laptop. BUT i'm getting alot of flashing and its telling me the game stops responding, SO i find out that the game is not compatible with this type of graphics card... UGH... SO i start looking into upgrading it, and Dell tells me i would have to change the whole motherboard in order to upgrade. This would of cours cost about 250 PLUS the cost (and installation) of the new graphics card...
Please tell me that its possible to upgrade this? I don't want to have to purchase a new computer just for 1 silly little issue... ok well its not so silly but it seems that its a HUGE pain in my arse!
Thanks!
So. I purchased a refurbished dell inspiron 1764 from a 3rd party. The laptop works great, Has windows 7 64 bit OS
Intel Core i5 CPU M 430@2.27GHz
The installed memory is 4.0 GB
and the graphics card is the Intel HD Graphics card With 1696MB of memory.
Now.. My issue is i happen to LOVE the sims games. And wanted to play the sims 3 on this laptop. BUT i'm getting alot of flashing and its telling me the game stops responding, SO i find out that the game is not compatible with this type of graphics card... UGH... SO i start looking into upgrading it, and Dell tells me i would have to change the whole motherboard in order to upgrade. This would of cours cost about 250 PLUS the cost (and installation) of the new graphics card...
Please tell me that its possible to upgrade this? I don't want to have to purchase a new computer just for 1 silly little issue... ok well its not so silly but it seems that its a HUGE pain in my arse!
Thanks!