My PC died recently and I decided to purchase a laptop instead. I purchased Toshiba Satellite L775D-S7132 Laptop.

Specs:

AMD Quad Core A6-34020M APU HD Radeon 6520G 1.5GHz

4GB RAM

Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium

The game plays but I am experiencing some lag as well as some hesitation --as in when I am moving forward. Is this something that can or cannot be fixed--as in a work around. Or, am I simply stuck with a computer that can't handle Skyrim all that well? Thank you.

I would check here and ask.
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1350063-unofficial-will-my-pc-run-skyrim-thread-58-w-hardware-guide/

But from your specs, I am afraid that your laptop may not even be able to make Skyrim playable.

I am not knowledgeable on laptops so dont take my word.

None of the Brazos APUs nor most of the Llano processors have sufficient Turbo Speed for this game - - AMD had high hopes for their Trinity APUs, but the Bulldozer cores ended up with numerous problems in games; however, they are what you should be using for a laptop with an AMD processor.

Looks like you bought the wrong laptop. This specs isnt good for skyrim. Have you checked your fps?

Both your processor and your RAM are too low in my opinion. Have you tried running the game on absolute lowest settings, and especially have you disabled shadows? The best thing you can do is start at the bottom graphically, see how that runs, and then work your way up until you find a graphical configuration that has the best balance of performance vs quality.

Edit: Oh and also, assuming you have Skyrim on Steam, did you download/claim the High-res texture packs that Bethesda released as a separate download? Once you agree to use them, I believe that they're automatically downloaded alongside Skyrim but (I think) you can disable them in the data files menu of your Skyrim launcher. Those could also be causing performance issues if you got them when you had a beefier, desktop PC and didn't realize you were still using them now on your laptop.

Well, I lowered the settings down to medium and the lag disappeared, for now.

i bought the laptop based on economics: a practically empty wallet. Sometimes you have to make necessary choices in life. Pay bills or buy an ultra PC gaming machine. At any rate at the very least I can still play Dragon Age Origins and Fallout New Vegas. I know the graphics aren't nearly ad good as they were on my dead PC.

Meh at least it works on Low....totally understand the budget....but from the looks of it the CPU is what is holding it back the most it seems. I like your attitude though at least you can play and right at that...I see posts from people with rigs that make mine look like a joke with flickering, hitching issues etc.

Never owned a laptop so I dunno if a CPU upgrade is possible down the road but the rest of that stuff looks fine....maybe a lil bit more RAM would be the two things I would add if possible down the line.

There are a series of the Llano devices, and the laptops using them can have discrete graphics cards beyond the ones that are part of the APU. This particular one happens to be at the Lower end of the range for CPU speed (although I don't believe anyone has looked up the max possible Turbo Speed it is capable of, to add it here). It's been quite some while since the last Sager was sold with removable CPU and GPU for upgrades. They were the last seller with a supplier offering any product they could assemble that way.

I tried calling Toshiba Tech support a little while ago and the technician blew me off. I went to the accessories page to look at adding $GB Stick to my L755D-S7132 laptop and got to chatting with a sales rep that was far more informative that that technician. Supposedly my A6 Processor has an accelerator that will go as high as 2.4GHz, which is probably still too slow. However, it seems to be doing fine on the Medium graphic settings. My Dragon Age Origins game plays with no issues too. I haven't yet finished loading the mods for my Fallout New Vegas to test it.

Incidentally, both Toshiba Reps were adamant that if I changed anything it would void my warranty.

Toshiba: "Please don't enhance your laptop? Upgrade by purchasing a better one. [Spend even more money with us.]"

To be fair mate that's not saying much. DA:O ran well on medium/high on my Pentium 4 3ghz and GT 220.

Skyrim is a whole other ball game. It eats CPU speed and power.

I know it does. Skyrim is playing well enough now, however, where there isn't any lag or stuttering. It's just that I lost some eye candy. Incidentally, in a way that's what fried my desktop: over heating. The processor went as did the power supply, my Radeon HD 6850 video card, and the four built-in fans. All at once. That's when I decided to buy my first and last laptop. I built that desktop four years ago at a cost of $2,500. Now I am retired and on social security and can't afford it. The laptop was $450.

As long as you enjoy it mate, screw whatever settings you play on

I built half a dozen PCs in 2008, three of them for games, and never spent over $1500, and generally, a lot less, to do any of them. You must be referring to Ozzie dollars or you just didn't do much shopping around at all. I've been stuck on SS for a while longer than those four years, as well. When I build them, they always have thermal monitoring software running that will shut them down before any damage can occur, however, it really sounds to me as though you had one or the other of two disasters, either a catastrophic failure of a power supply, or a major power surge you weren't aware of.

Well, it was around the time we had that we got hit with that solar flare, but I doubt that was the cause of it. Incidentally, except for the ThermoTake case, everything was purchased from NewEgg. I was also including the HP 2310 - 23 in. flat screen monitor in that cost, as well as the Epson Artisan 810 printer which I still have. I sold the monitor for a $100 the same day I purchased the laptop.