What kinds of good graphics/video cards out there are good for gaming for an HP laptop?

I got an HP laptop with NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M graphics (Whatever that means). I want to play The Sims 3 better and Spore but I'm thinking my graphics card is the reason the games are running too slow and the bad quality it's giving. StarCraft 2 is going to be here soon and i'm worried if I get it it's also going to run slow and give me bad quality. I'm considering a Radeon HD 9500 but I don't know if my laptop is going to support it. Vista operating system by the way...|||You can't actually upgrade the video card on a laptop. You will have to get a new laptop if you want to upgrade.



I do suggest you check nVidia's website (http://www.nvidia.com ) to see if there are upgraded drivers for your current card. Chances are that if you got the laptop a while back then there might be newer drivers available (the latest drivers for your card as of this posting were released on February 11th, 2009). Often upgraded video drivers can provide a modest increase in performance. However, that's the best you can do without purchasing a new computer.|||Uhh. I guess you don't know this but laptops use integrated video chips, and cannot be upgraded. The only things you can upgrade in a laptop are the ram, the hard drive, and your cpu. The video chip is integrated on the motherboard and cannot be removed, and the motherboard cannot be replaced, because all laptops have different motherboards unlike desktops.|||I doubt that you can change the video card in an HP laptop (you can't in almost any laptop). It's probably integrated on the motherboard, and there's no bus to plug in another real card.



You're going to end up replacing that laptop if you want better gaming video. (The Alienware Area51 is a gaming monster, with 2 nVidia 9800s in SLI, but it's a bit expensive [for huge values of 'a bit']. And you can change the cards down the line - they're real 9800M cards)|||Okay

The reason the games are running slow may not be the video card but maybe Random Access Memory or Ram, 2 gigabytes is good. A good processor Amd phenom or better or Intel pentium dual core or better is good.

An Ati Radeon HD 9500 is a good choice but may shorten battery life a 6 cell is good. Most likely Your laptop will support it.

P.S Try this

1:Go to the place with the programs and background or control panel,

2: right click and click personalize or left click personalize

3:click display settings

4:Click advanced settings

5:Click your nvidia tab and click graphics properties and raise it from there