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Hi,

I have just recently purchased an Acer Ferrari 5005WLMi notebook. The
spec being:

* a 2.0GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 dual-core processor
* 2GB of fast 667MHz RAM
* an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics card with 512MB dedicated
memory
* and a large, 160GB hard drive spinning at 5,400rpm

When I play a game (Pro Evolution Soccer 6), the first game I play lags
like hell. This happens for most of the first 10 minutes of playing.
The lag decreases the longer I play (i.e. it is really bad during the
first minute, but is almost gone after 10 minutes, but still there
slightly).

The notebook should be able to play this game without any lag. I play
at 1024 x 768 as well in case the 1680x1050 resolution is a problem,
but I still have the same problem.

I play the game from CD (but most of the game is copied onto my HDD
anyway, so this can't be the cause of the lag). It seems like a
caching issue.

Can anyone suggest what I should do to eliminate the lag? My brother
has an Acer Ferrari 4005 which runs the same game smoothly.

Could it be that the graphics drivers need updating? Can I change any
other settings to remove the lag? The notebook has ATI Control Center
software, and different profiles (i.e. Entertainment, Word Processing,
etc) but I am scared to change the settings in case I screw the
notebook up.

Like I say, this machine should be able to play this game smoothly
(especially if my brother's less powerful graphics card - Mobility
Radeon X700 - can play this without any problems).

Thanks.