Hi, I've had EndWar for some time now, running on a HP dv9000 laptop. The laptop has an AMD Phenom 64 x2 processor and Vista 32-bit. I know this machine wasn't exactly built for gaming, but the problem I am having I doubt is the cause of a minor lack in performance.
Anyway, my main problem (this is all offline play, I have not even attempted TOW yet) is the length of time the game is taking to play. One in-game second is taking seven seconds of real-time. I'm making the assumption that this was not a feature in the game, and I don't see that the patch helped any. I tried bringing the display resolution down to 800x600, but it cause the game to stop all visual output and now only works (by "works" I mean the display is back, the "time delay" is not fixed) on other users.

Any suggestions?
P.S. - I'd have more technical specs if the PC was in front of me - I'll post graphics card specs later, but I do know it's nVidia's card.

Okay, more specs.
I don't know why I said it was a Phenom processor, it's actually an AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-60.
OS: Vista Home Premium 32-bit
RAM: 3GB
Model: HP Pavilion dv9700 Notebook PC
Graphics card: nVidia GeForce 7150M/ nForce 630M, 64MB dedicated video memory.

I think that's all the specs needed here... let me know if more info on the computer is needed.

That laptop doesn't meet the minimum specs for the game.

quote:

• Operating System: Windows® XP (with SP2) or Windows Vista® (with SP1)
• Processor: Intel® Core® 2 Duo E4400 2.0 GHz, 3.0 GHz AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core or better
• RAM: 1 GB for Windows XP and 2 GB for Windows Vista and configurations with shared memory

video cards
• Video card: Nvidia™ 7800GS or ATI™ 1800XT or better DirectX® 9.0c–compliant
• 256 MB video card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (See Supported List 1.0.3 for more information)

• DVD-ROM: Dual-layer DVD-ROM drive
• Hard Drive Space: 10 GB free hard disk space
• Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card with latest drivers
• Internet: Broadband connection with 256 kbps upstream or faster and service required for multiplayer mode

That proccessor only runs @ 2.0Ghz, you need 3.0Ghz. Same problem with your video chip, the 7150m isn't supported and you need 256mb of video ram minimum.

Oh well, it's the fastest machine we own. It's either that or an XP SP2 with a Pentium 4, which is obviously much lower on the specs line. It wouldn't even install on that machine.