I recently bought a laptop for school/work but I wanted to try to play some strategy games on it as well if it is possible. My laptop is a HP Pavilion zv6007 laptop with a 200m ATI graphics card and has 512 RAM. I recently installed Command and Conquer Generals on it and the game runs okay but when it is loading and while it is on the menu screen the game shows obvious signs of slowing down/ lagging. I hear that it is impossible to upgrade my video card since I have a laptop but if I installed some more memory would that make the game run smoother??? (I am not talking about Doom 3 or anything huge) I just want to know what anything I can do/buy to make my games run faster???? and would it be possible for me to run Age of Empires III with decent performance on my laptop??? THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR THE SUGGESTIONS