Tech advice for upgrading my HP Pavilion Notebook to play Arkham Knight???

[b3ju5t]

Just bought a few of these games recently and wondering if there is any way to upgrade my HP Pavilion Notebook:
Processor AMD A8-7410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics 2.20 GHz
Installed RAM 8.00 GB (6.94 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Arkham City seemed to work ok but Knight has brought everything to a halt...
Any advice is appreciated..

[El Shabs]

You don't have a dedicated graphics card, , I just googled and there's no chance of Arkham Knight working on that laptop

[Buck]

Originally posted by El Shabs:

You don't have a dedicated graphics card, , I just googled and there's no chance of Arkham Knight working on that laptop

True, but the AMD APU contains an embedded Radeon R5 GPU which is more then up to the task of running this 11 year old game.

Originally posted by b3ju5t:

Arkham City seemed to work ok but Knight has brought everything to a halt...
Any advice is appreciated..

Well, BAC is a much older game with far more modest requirements then BAK. The latter required a Radeon HD 3850, which the mobile R5 more then exceeds, but it's not quite on par with the (at the time) relatively beefy HD7780 that BAK demands. So i'm not surprised it would run poorly in comparison, esp when coupled with a relatively low power mobile CPU and below min 8GB (Win 10 recommends 12 or more).

You can try upgrading the memory, which might improve performance somewhat, but the mobile APU is inherently limited for what it is. It should run older games just fine, but stuff from within the last 5ish years might still be somewhat out of it's reach at anything but lower settings. It IS a laptop, after all.

FYI, most laptops by design operate slower when on battery. So either keep it plugged into AC, or override the power saving settings, but expect a reduction in battery life.

[b3ju5t]

Thanks guys.... in the meantime i bought a 2nd hand reconditioned ASUS with VivoBook with a i5-7200U CPU 8 GB RAM 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE 930MX for peanuts and works fine mostly although now and then when i start the game i get some serious stutturing in the game and the voiceover is out of sync sometimes...

[Buck]

Originally posted by b3ju5t:

Thanks guys.... in the meantime i bought a 2nd hand reconditioned ASUS with VivoBook with a i5-7200U CPU 8 GB RAM 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE 930MX for peanuts and works fine mostly although now and then when i start the game i get some serious stutturing in the game and the voiceover is out of sync sometimes...

the 930M still doesn't meet BAK's min requirements, but it can still be run playably. the stuttering is almost definitely due to slow hard drive and probably memory.

upgrade to an SSD, make sure it's set for AHCI mode. upgrade memory if it can support more. at least 12GB is recommended for Win 10.