It does not appear to me that that model of laptop can have its graphics upgraded.

crap...well thanks anyways lol for the info i guess

Again I ask, because that's no slouch of a card. I could play oldblivion on that.

ha it's not the hd it's the x2300 which sucks 64 mb lol

VRAM doesn't matter. Stop feeling insecure about your graphics card and just play the games. It's like buying extenze.

but my graphics card isn't good enough to play oblivion i've tried; that was one of the first games i wanted to play

Clearly the most easy and obvious solution is buying a new desktop/laptop that can play games -_-

Geforce 3 64 MB standard edition, 1.5 Ghz AMD Athlon, 512 MB RAM runs oldblivion fine. Your graphics card is probably somewhere around five times as powerful, as is your cpu. Read this. Oldblivion won't look that great, but seriously, that doesn't matter much. As I said before, your GPU is fine, you just can't expect everything to look good, and you have to put a lot of work into making it look good.

see.. exactly what i told him.
when he tries to run oblivion, he says he gets a black screen.
IMO thats just him loading the game.

Well, no, not necessarily. I'd set everything down to lowest quality and go up from there. My eeepc 901 uses the 945 Intel chipset, which has a GMA 950 or something like that. I'll have to check on the specs, but suffice it to say, it sucks. I attempted to install half-life: source on it, since it should easily be able to handle it, but unfortunately, the game refused to start. I may try it again, because the experience is a little fuzzy. The original half life runs fine on older models, though.