Even with a modest video card the game will still slow down or get blurry with 1 gb of RAM. Even for laptops RAM is cheap, long as it can recognize 1gb chips the game's performance shouldn't drop when you're playing GWX. Getting 2 gb should be affordable. With more RAM you could possibly reduce the size of the pagefile forcing the machine to use the RAM instead of the disk. Disk I/O sucks on laptops, even with sata drives they are still noticeably slower (the 7200 rpm ones aren't that bad; but am assuming that the machine in question is a bit older).
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