Need help from someone very techie. Help me run maple on my potato.

Your computer specs is perfectly fine to run maple. What I would suggest is to reinstall Windows XP and don't put your maple on an external, have it on your internal C drive.

@Zelkova AMD and Intel processors have totally different architectures, you can't compare just the difference in frequency between them.

Thanks so much for replying <333 Just an update of what I tinkered with last night.. I had a very old version of gamebooster installed from the last few times I had played maple. This was the version I had successfully gotten maple to run with about 4-5 times over the past week or so off the external harddrive.

I haven't gotten it to load at all since they put in the AB/root abyss patch (300mbs).

So a few things I did:
I uninstalled the old 1Obit version of gamebooster and installed Razer's new version.
From there I tried moving the maple folder from the external to the internal leaving me with around 6 gigs free on the internal. Trying to load maple this way though was extremely slow. Usually on the external I can boot to character select pretty fast. On the internal it was having issues just loading the game at all. I think the internal harddrive might just be too slow? I don't think it was the original harddrive the computer shipped with, whoever I bought it from switched it out I believe.

So I plugged the external back in with the new gamebooster. Game loads VERY fast now, but is still catching a black screen after character select. I defragged maple as well, but besides loading faster I still haven't had a successful map load in free market where my character is parked.

I might borrow my boyfriends very good 7200rpm/own power supply external for the day and see if that works. If so I can get another one for cheap.

If that fails I'll try what you said about reinstalling XP. I think I can get a free copy from my school.

I'll report back to you ^_^