Cant play
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A (?) in your device manager usually indicates a problem. Afaik, a "working", but out of date driver wouldn't show up that way. Unfortunately, windows won't really show drivers as being "in need of update", at least not in my experience.
Here's what your problem is: The default drivers that windows supplied do work.. kindof.. but if you want to play games properly, you're going to need the newest drivers (or at least newer, better ones). In general, you'd get these from the manufacturer. For example, I have an Nvidia brand graphics card, so I got my drivers from the Nvidia website. Since you have a laptop, though, it's not always that simple.

You mentioned that you don't know what drivers are. Drivers are, in layman's terms, what "drives", or runs the hardware, in a sense. You can think of it as the things that tell the computer how to use your hardware. If your computer is being told information that is old and that isn't the best way to use it, then your computer can't use what it has to it's fullest.
A Graphics card is the bit of hardware that handles all (or most) of anything having to do with graphics on screen. If that isn't running very well, then your graphics card won't be able to do things quickly, thus, low FPS.

We are willing to try to help you a bit, but this is not a technical support forum. If you need further assistance, I'd recommend a forum more like that, or, heck, your favorite search engine would probably help too.

Edit: I stand corrected.
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Messages In This Thread
Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 15 Feb 14, 02:23PM
RE: Cant play - by Krayce - 15 Feb 14, 02:42PM
RE: Cant play - by MPx - 16 Feb 14, 02:44AM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 16 Feb 14, 03:25AM
RE: Cant play - by XFA - 16 Feb 14, 04:41AM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 16 Feb 14, 06:53AM
RE: Cant play - by 1Cap - 16 Feb 14, 10:47AM
RE: Cant play - by Krayce - 17 Feb 14, 08:56PM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 18 Feb 14, 10:32AM
RE: Cant play - by X-Ray_Dog - 18 Feb 14, 07:18PM
RE: Cant play - by MPx - 18 Feb 14, 07:34PM
RE: Cant play - by D3M0NW0LF - 18 Feb 14, 07:54PM
RE: Cant play - by Krayce - 18 Feb 14, 09:57PM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 19 Feb 14, 11:33AM
RE: Cant play - by Thrawn - 19 Feb 14, 07:11PM
RE: Cant play - by 1Cap - 19 Feb 14, 08:05PM
RE: Cant play - by Mousikos - 19 Feb 14, 08:07PM
RE: Cant play - by Krayce - 19 Feb 14, 10:17PM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 21 Feb 14, 10:08AM
RE: Cant play - by RandumKiwi - 21 Feb 14, 10:18AM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 21 Feb 14, 10:21AM
RE: Cant play - by RandumKiwi - 21 Feb 14, 11:24AM
RE: Cant play - by Krayce - 21 Feb 14, 01:52PM
RE: Cant play - by 1Cap - 21 Feb 14, 04:34PM
RE: Cant play - by MPx - 22 Feb 14, 12:08AM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 22 Feb 14, 12:58PM
RE: Cant play - by 1Cap - 22 Feb 14, 03:21PM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 23 Feb 14, 05:06AM
RE: Cant play - by Mousikos - 23 Feb 14, 05:08AM
RE: Cant play - by 1Cap - 23 Feb 14, 08:51AM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 24 Feb 14, 09:08AM
RE: Cant play - by MPx - 24 Feb 14, 10:00PM
RE: Cant play - by Mousikos - 24 Feb 14, 10:42PM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 26 Feb 14, 09:17AM
RE: Cant play - by MPx - 27 Feb 14, 06:39PM
RE: Cant play - by Marti - 27 Feb 14, 07:12PM
RE: Cant play - by Boomhauer - 28 Feb 14, 12:47AM
RE: Cant play - by MPx - 28 Feb 14, 04:29PM
RE: Cant play - by TheNihilanth - 28 Feb 14, 02:03AM
RE: Cant play - by 1Cap - 28 Feb 14, 03:57AM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 28 Feb 14, 09:36AM
RE: Cant play - by 1Cap - 28 Feb 14, 02:52PM
RE: Cant play - by Krayce - 28 Feb 14, 03:44PM
RE: Cant play - by 1Cap - 28 Feb 14, 07:11PM
RE: Cant play - by Krayce - 01 Mar 14, 03:18PM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 02 Mar 14, 12:41PM
RE: Cant play - by Marti - 02 Mar 14, 01:18PM
RE: Cant play - by Krayce - 02 Mar 14, 01:20PM
RE: Cant play - by MPx - 02 Mar 14, 04:11PM
RE: Cant play - by 1Cap - 02 Mar 14, 08:02PM
RE: Cant play - by Krayce - 02 Mar 14, 11:20PM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 03 Mar 14, 01:10PM
RE: Cant play - by Boomhauer - 03 Mar 14, 03:44PM
RE: Cant play - by hgf-arg - 03 Mar 14, 05:53PM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 04 Mar 14, 01:13PM
RE: Cant play - by MPx - 04 Mar 14, 03:49PM
RE: Cant play - by MarcClint21 - 05 Mar 14, 01:22AM
RE: Cant play - by MPx - 05 Mar 14, 04:14AM
RE: Cant play - by Krayce - 06 Mar 14, 09:21PM