Your getting all your going to get out of your system sorry. The radeon card just isn't powerful enough to give you more then what your seeing. The only thing you can do is lower and turn off all the graphics options you can then start to lower the resolution and I mean lower it like 1024x768 or even 800x600 thats all you can do with your system.

That is not a video card its for media playback so it has no power to run video games unless you reduce everything to minimum. It does run the game but what you get is all your going to get with what you got. Intergrated video is not designed to run games on its just not its for laptops to play back media that's it.

For buying a computer you really don't want to buy a system from a non computer store because most of the time your just not going to get what you really want and your choices are pretty limited. They are $500 for a reason they are cheaping out on something and when you go to upgrade in the future you generally going to have problems so much so that your probably going to have to buy a whole new system instead of just a new video card. One big cheapout with systems under $1000 is usually the video card. Why the video card ? Because for gaming a basic gaming card is going to cost you at minimum $200-$300 if your video card cost as much as a McDonalds Big Mac your not going to be gaming anything. So google your card if its selling for $60 its not a video card you can play video games on its for playing movies and surfing the internet that's it. Today the minimum video card for gaming would be the GTX 560 its about $250 ya ya ya ya but my 9800 can run the game ya sure it can really your just fooling yourself thinking the 20fps on low setting is running the game sorry but no. Another big cheapout is the power supply if its a 400 watt one its not going to have enough power to even run a gaming video card. Your going to want at least a 650 watt one but an 800 watt one will allow you some headroom for future upgrading. The motherboard a lot of times its an obsolete model that the newer components just wont even run on so if that's the case in 6 months or a year when you want to put in a new video card you wont even be able to do that and again the 400 watt power supply wouldn't be able to even run it anyways. A far better choice is to pick the components you want and have a computer store put them together for you this way your getting what you choose and you can pick what you want to spend a bit more for. DO RESEARCH !!!!!! Google is your friend you probably google 384739847 things a day try googling the individual part your looking at and see what the reviews say what others who bought it say about it. I see so many posts here with people trying to play with laptops asking why it won't run the game when they post the laptop they have I google it and find that non of these laptops even have a video card in them they are all built in motherboard video which is only good for media playback not for playing video games with they just don't have the power to run a video game. YOU NEED A DEDICATED VIDEO CARD TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES !!!!! but they also use a ton of power so that's why unless its something like an alienware gaming laptop most laptops being sold just won't have a video card in them and rely on intergrated video from the motherboard thats also why it only cost $300 or $500 it does not have a video card in it. For me I got my new system from NCIX.com I picked the parts I wanted and they put it together and shipped it out to me. I bought a lot of stuff from them over the years and so when I wanted to buy a brand new system I went through them. But I did a ton of research on the parts I wanted since I wanted a gaming computer and thats what I had them build for me. I can play any game out right now or coming in the future with full graphic turned on and get well over 100fps for WoW I had to actually turn on vsync because my computer was rocking out over 250 fps and that is just way too much power.

The problem is that your mac book is not for playing games on, Most laptops now a days are not gaming laptops they are for media playback like watching movies and surfing the internet. No mac is built to be a gaming platform, They might run a game but what you get is all your gonna get from it. Most PC laptops are in the same boat they are not built to play games with they just don't have the hardware or the horsepower unless they are specifically gaming laptops like alienware but those you looking at a heck of a lot more then the $200 or $300 you people seem to spend and expect it to be good for gaming. I laugh when people spend more for a iphone then a computer but complain cause the computer is running a game crappy ???? seriously ???? what did you expect. Unless its sold as a "gaming" laptop I guarantee it didn't even come with a dedicated video card and uses integrated motherboard video to render with. No video card not a gaming computer its just that simple. If you can get a game to run great but again what you see is all your gonna get there is no trick to get a $300 laptop to play any game good.

The problem is your computer is like 5 years old and your getting the performance you should expect in running a game just released. You CAN run the game with your computer but you cannot expect to run it smooth with the computer your using. A 9800 video card and 3gb ram is way way way old in computer terms. Unless you get a better system be happy you can even play the game at all.

Is this the 520 in a desktop or the 520M in a laptop ? Either version is not designed or built to play games with they are to display windows surf the net and play movies on. They will not run any video games with any real performance at all. So if you turn every graphics option down to low turn off shadows and turn the resolution down to 640x480 it might run but even then your probably going to overload it and have bad preformance with it. On nividias website it show a preformance chart and the 520 is the lowest one there http://uk.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-520/performance A 580 on the chart does 28,000 the 520 does 3000 in the 3dmark test to put it in comparison

Drops and actually questing rewards when you get a choice of say 3 items some will have your companions name on it so you can pick an upgrade for them. Press C then click the companion tab then equip to them. But any drop or crafted or bought item they are able to use can be equipped. Press P goto companion tab to see what they can use for weapons, armor, offhand and all that stuff.

Server queues take care of themselves it just takes time. People will eventually get the hint when they log in to sit in the queue before they just start a new toon on another server. Can't blame bioware because your trying to play on a full server when the solution is simple just start on a low pop server and your queue times are solved. Seriously in the years that this game is going to be around is starting a new toon really that bad ? You know so much more now then when you started and starting at level 1 with all the stuff you know will make the game much more fun. Bioware will not fix a problem with full servers when you can just start a toon on one of the many many many many other servers with no queue. If your not willing to move that a you problem not a bioware problem. Or just wait it out eventually others will leave and then the queue will be gone.

Server queues are a problem that takes care of itself. People will eventually get tired of starting the game and sitting in a queue and roll a toon on another server eventually enough will leave to balance out the server. Saying your more entitled to play on the server then another player is bad and really in the years this game will be around is rolling on a low pop server after 2 weeks really going to be the rapture ? Besides now you are probably a lot better at the game and learned a lot so starting a new toon would probably be more beneficial overall since you know so much more about what your doing from level 1. If you not willing to move then honestly you have no business complaining about being in a queue. There are many many many many other servers to play on the problem is all on you . The fix is easy play on a new server why bug bioware about your trying to play on a full server when there are so many that are not full.

All you need to do when using Mako is think Lacy Chabert and thats all you really need and you will want her around you all the time. Don't know who Lacy Chabert is ? She is the voice for Mako and google her to see some pics cause WOOOOOZZZZZAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she can rub ointment on my wounds any day of the week.

Your fps is low because your video card is just a basic display card used to show windows and surf the net on it is not built or designed to be used to play video games at all. It does not have the capabilities needed to do anything beyond basic display. Sorry but a $40 video card does not even come close to cutting it when it come to playing video games. In video gaming you need to put out more money then a trip to McDonalds for your computer to run games at any real acceptable speed. $30 for ram and $40 for a video card you need to stick to surfing the net and solitaire because the game itself costs more then you paid for the ram and video card combined.

The game doesn't run addons or macros which is both good and bad. Bad that healing is kinda horrible without mouse over heals or an addon like healbot to make it "fun". Also the default UI is not scaleable or moveable which would be really nice to be able to do. Good because once you allow macro's people tend to exploit them to gain an advantage and it allows gold farmers and bots to run on easy mode. After 7 years of WoW I am finding it a bit weird to be locked in to the default after being able to change pretty much anything with addons and macros in WoW but i'm getting used to it the more I play.

I am running a Intel i7 2600k overclocked to 4.6ghz with a ASUS GeForce GTX 580 Rog Matrix Platinum video card and 16gb Corsair Vengeance ram on win7 and a OCZ Vertex 3 Max Iops 240GB SSD drive and with vsync on in windows mode it's rock solid at 110 fps i've never seen it below 100 fps yet with everything maxed out. Kinda weird tho cause generally vsync is 60fps not sure why its 110 fps with this game but with vsync turned off its putting out like 280 fps but that's way to fast and my video card starts to whine from all the power its putting out so I generally have to run games with vsync enabled. I have had zero issues at all playing the game everything runs sweet I could not be more happy. Oh and I live in Alberta so a fellow Canuck and normally I get my nerd gear through http://www.ncix.com/ they serve me well. You need to tell us a bit more about your system before you can really pick a card like what your motherboard is and how big is your power supply to recommend the proper card that will run for you.

Ya i made a green it said it was exceptional and it had a mod slot in it even tho it was only green. Really sweet surprise

So we can preview armor by ctrl clicking it but it will not show us weapons which is strange and necessary cause i'm not spending hard earned money or commendations to get something that looks dumb By the way if you do buy something then sell it right back do you get full price or is the price nerfed to the ground for your "mistake" i'm to chicken to try it for myself haha

Ahhh ya ok i finished the quest and have the turn in at the ship one but i wanna clear my other qeusts first so that must be it. Thanks guys

So I unlocked Vector my second helper monkey but when I open up the crew skill page there is none of the 3 buttons to pick with him for crafting it just says "Guest" any clues as to whats up with that ? My first girl and the droid from the ship both have their buttons but not Vector.

So my kalto injection heals for 600 and takes 2.5 seconds to cast and its not even enough to heal through incoming dmg from single mobs. Now i'm not healing spec but still I cannot heal through attacks from a regular mob let alone a strong or elite one. Either I out dps them before I die or I have to escape ( vanish ) and run away to out of combat heal. I sure cannot heal Kaliyo in combat its like throwing a cup of water on a forest fire she will not have more hit points after the heal then she did before the heal its pointless and annoying and really dumb. Now I sure don't expect to be a super healer but still the heals this class has so far does not out heal a regular mobs incoming dmg.