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Call of duty 4 poor performance?

I have an Alienware M17X laptop, one of, if not the most powerful computer on the market. I have an INVIDIA GT9000 graphics card, and a quad processor. However when I play call of duty 4 on this machine, it should run in near perfect quality etc... yet when i move around its laggy, in a lot of cases choppy. This is not on multiplayer, just singleplayer. It slows down when i shoot, and I know my computer is more than capable of handling this game. During singleplayer on the first boat mission, its very laggy, even in my NVIDIA control panel I changed my settings to focus on performance, even that didn't really work. What can I do?

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1. unforntually im having trouble finding specifaction on your graphics card and im unsure why, i copy and pasted it into google and none of the results were a 9000. if i had to guess i would say open your task manager (push ctrl shift esc at same time) and check your system usage, most new computers come with like 70, 80, ive even seen 90+ processes, and thats unaccetable, and mines in the 30's and rearly exceed 5% usage and im on a duel core laptop on powersaver only 800mhz on each of the processors at the moment 1.6Ghz on high preformence) so if you cant get your computer to run smoothly like that look into posting another question on what are the nessarry processes for your operating system. so change you processes use msconfig, eather search it in the start menu im asuming u have vista or 7 beta if not run a search for it. if thats ok then try diming the resoultion down a hair, i looked up your laptop and i wish i had it but if you have say the 1200p resoultion or even the 900, try dimming it to 720, its still great quality i play on 720 on cod4 for my xbox and its great. if neather work ummm.... go to http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/srtest/ and select call of duty 4 just to make sure you can run it, there may be something you dont know maybe they cheeted you on your computer, just check it out just in case. if you a computer person and already knew how to open task manager or msconfig dont feel insulted that i told you how to, just want to make sure you know sence i only get one chance at answering unless i happen to look at the question again. i cant think of anything else so good luck and i hope this is good enough for best answer :) if u add additional details i may see them and help more or post another question.