Hey guys, I've posted this in the SD tech support thread but figured I may aswell get it up here, too.

Firstly here are the specs of my Laptop:

Intel? Core i7 620M Dual Core 3.06GHz
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5
4GB DDR3 1333Mhz RAM
128GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD
Windows 7

The first problem seems to be with the lag, I've scanned around a little bit and saw that a few people are having trouble with ATI cards... I am running the game on medium, with shadow quality set to medium, and a few things turned off. And it runs ok, not great but fine, I dont have the FPS being read out as I play but I guess it's around 30-50. At high it was lower, as expected I can run many other games on high with much better frame rates. It feels like something is wrong as opposed to my Laptop being unable to handle this game on high

The other problem I'm getting is that the game tends to freak out from time to time, I've fired up Brink a total of 3 times since purchasing it. The first time it closed to desktop after a game without any notice, and I don't know if this has anything to do with the game itself, but around 5 minutes after this happened my laptop started to make a loud screeching sound, it sounded like it may have been coming out of the speakers but I was busy trying to switch it off to really investigate as to where the sound was coming from!

The second time I launched Brink, after a few games the text in the menus (sub heading for the abilities) was completly distorted, with tons of small black pixels over the text.

A quick note before I end this big post I'm running the latest drivers on my graphics card

Thanks for reading!

Cheers