My new G50V-A1 and low WoW FPS issue

Hello, Yesterday I finally decided and pick up G50V-A1 laptop. Took me a while to arrive at this decision but it is a very solid peace of hardware from Asus.

My issue is that when I play WoW I get about 30-40 FPS at best at high settings and native 1680X1050 resolution. This puzzles me a lot because my XPSM1530 with 8600GT on the same rez external screen was giving me soild 60 FPS and from what I read one of the members here with same laptop getting same solid 60 FPS frame rate (with VSync)

I wiped old OS, installed 320GB 7200X2 raid 0 HDs (lets not get in to raid issues, i am well away of problems I could have) and installed Vista Ultimate X64 with 180.43 Vista 64bit drivers with everything else.

My 3DMark06 is ~5800 at 1280X1024; CPU @ 2.81 GHz

Is it just me or this VC can't even provide solid 60 FPS on 4 year old game or am I doing something wrong here?

Any suggestions would be appreciated

 

Are you using the stock drivers? If so, that will limit you since they really aren't that great for performance.

Your best bet is to update your video card drivers from laptopvideo2go.com. It should improve your performance. I myself haven't installed WoW just yet, but on other games such as Civ IV and FIFA 09 I am just fine.

 

Try 177.92 or 177.79 driver from laptopvideo2go. That may yield better performance

 

180.43 Vista 64bit is from laptopvideo2go.com.

Stock or these do no difference at all (5 points in 3dmark06 for eg)

 

that 3dmark06 score seems rather low, so maybe it is a problem with the video card itself.

 

try set wow settings right, uncheck vertical sync.

 

That score was for 1280X1024 resolution.

I also tried all the drivers above and it is all the same.

VC Freq is

Core: 625
Mem: 800 (1600 DDR)
During play it runs @ 81C

Also when you play it seems to freeze every few sec for like 300 ms and resume

 

It is unchecked, it makes no diff at all.

 

Watch out with WoW.

The most recent patch added shadows to the game. It's a VERY tangible performance dip before and after. You can toggle it in the menu.

WoW is a 4 year old game, but the latest patch and upcoming expansion is a pretty significant jump in terms of system requirements.

 

Yeah I quit for about a year so I was not aware of the new change for the WoTLK but ****.... turned off shadow and my FPS doubled on a spot... what a difference. Can't believe this small option takes so much resources.

Av FPS now is ~80 without Vsync and I am a happy camper. Thx for the info

 

even my gateway p7811fx only gets 30-70 with all settings maxed except
vsync. thats with 9800m gts.
30-40fps fo a 9700m gt card, sounds normal to me.

 

No problem hehe.

Yeah, I was scratching my head myself when I installed the 3.0 patch.

I was able to use shadows up to 3/4 of the way up on my home machine without taking much of a performance hit.