CIV4 on small SSD

[AnthonyIII]

Hey guys! I've had civ4 run fine and pretty fast for about a year now. However, a couple of days ago I dropped my laptop on the floor and my hard-drive crashed. Had to re-install Windows 7 and bought a new hard-drive. I was recommended an SSD and got myself this one:
http://reviews.cnet.com/internal-hard-drives/ocz-agility-3-120gb/4505-9998_7-34715543.html
I was told it was better than the one I had. Here are my original specs:
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/K73SV/#specifications

The only thing that's changed is the hard-drive. But now, Civ4 seems to lag and it's much slower than before even though my hard-drive should handle the game well...

Has anyone got an opinion on what I should do/have done wrong? I have the Steam version of the game.

Hoping for some good answers.

 

[mara5a]

so your former hard drive is dead? It means you might not have DirectX, GPU driver (or something else - you get the picture) installed now.

 

[AnthonyIII]

Yeah, it's dead. How do I find out if I have a/the GPU driver? Sorry for asking such hopeless quistions...

 

[mara5a]

just write "/your card name/ driver" into google (if you're not sure about the name go start -> right click computer -> properties -> in the left column there should be something like device manager or so (not sure about the name, i have non english version) -> new window should open and under graphic adapters you should see your graphic card exact name.)

also download latest DirectX if you don't have any