finally got it to go
 

the final answer was windows 7, 64 bit. I have i3 cpu, 550 ti card, 4 gigs ram, asus mother board. I tried the game in XP, not so good, windows 7, just ok, but the 64 bit version on my second partition was the trick, game is quite good now.

:shock:

I am equally shocked. But would like to welcome you to the new world of 64bit processing.

Question: What Laptop? (I also have an Asus-tis great!)
What FPS?

congratulations! you have a twin!

Maybe 64 bit allowed the use of the full 4 gigs of memory.

a good thing to add to a rig with low ram is a flash drive
when win sees it, choose the boost option
you are allowed up to 8 individual flash drives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...res/readyboost

i have done this with a 16gb flash drive, i plan to add another soon
made big gain for my 4 gb ram rig

I have 8 GB RAM. It can be beneficial for my system or not?

Thanks! Sorry my english...

it will speed up you and anyone but the stick has to be 3x your ram size so 8x3 24gb..but read through the link to make sure

If you have a 64 bit OS, you should see clearly better performance with 8GB RAM than with 32 bit OS.