World of Warcraft on stock W3v=trumatic.

I'm still on a stock W3v, and i've recently started playing world of warcraft again, and the lag is horrifying in the main towns i.e. iron forge/orgimmar and in pvp battleground areas. my graphics settings are set with all checked shaders, mid-ranged graphic settings, not much to ask for.

Thus whenever i have to enter towns or do PVPs with prolly 20-30 over characters in my screen, my com will give me the death-lag. to prevent that i have to prepare to set graphics to lowest, while resolution kept 1280x768.

and i am still considering if i should purchase another 512 pc4300 so-dimm to have a total 1024 ram with dual channel. with this lag will not be so trumatic with checked shaders, mid-range graphic settings? or if lag is still significant, 1.5g ram or 2g ram will it resolve lag? or changing the HDD from 54krpm to 72krpm?

 

Your graphics card should the main factor in determining fps lag in games (get a faster internet connection or stop downloading big files while you're playing to fix connection lag). Upgrading to 1 gig RAM from 512 mb would increase performance by a bit, but not very significant. Upgrading your HDD should also not make a significant change.
I think the X600 64MB should be able to handle a game such a WoW perfectly fine. Have you updated your graphics drivers? Perhaps you should try out the ATI drivers from www.omegadrivers.net which support Hypermemory, allowing you to use part of your system RAM as graphics memory.

 

I also think X600 64MB should be able to play WoW fine. On my old computer (Radeon Mobility 9000 with 64MB, 1GB ram) it played well for the most part - I do have some issues sometimes in Org or IF, but it's not that bad, and battlegrounds was fine too. I was using latest omega drivers. Try those, and it might actually help.

 

When WOW lags, do you have your laptop plugged into AC power? On battery power, the GPU underclocks itself.

 

u'd be surprised what more ram can do for ur performance.

 

Sounds like the page file is being used... slow, slow page file.

I think the RAM will increase performance... there will still be some lag, but it should be noticably improved and much more playable.

 

Yup thats what i think its the problem, my w3v hdd led will keep on processing non-stop when in towns or pvp battleground areas.

 

For WoW, lack of RAM is definitely the cause of the lag. Ive been playing for about a year now and I can notice the massive difference between 512mb of ram and 1gb while playing Wow. Gamespot also had a ram guide article where they compared the performace between 512mb, 1gb and 2gb of ram and boy there was a HUGE difference between each of the setups.

 

Maybe playing the game over wireless can cause lag too?

 

Not as long as you're speed between your router and notebook are higher than what speed your internet connection is (given that this isn't a game being played over just your home network, but out onto the internet.)

 

Very conclusive performance guide for world of warcraft.
Guess sticking to 512mb is out of the question. 1gig ram should bring out almost fully the potential of my w3v.

http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-x-1304-x-x-x

 

I really hate to drag out an old post,

But this is my main concern.

Did upgrading to 1gig of ram fix your problem?

 

I've used a free trial that came with PCGamer and played WOW on my W3V for a few hours. I only have 512MB RAM (everything still stock) and it played perfectly fine, and even has native widescreen support. I cant remember if all the graphics settings were maxed out or not, but I didnt have to lower them for it to play well.

 

I personaly use to play WOW,

I have a P4 2.53ghz, 512 ram, Geforce 4 ti 4200 128mb.

I run my Game at 1024x768, and all of the other settings on low.

Yes my game lags in major cities, also only a little bit for about 5 mins or so, in big battles.

Yes another 512 ram chip will do the trick... you may wanna decerase the settings in the game to increase FPS.

This lag has nothign to do with your internet as other's alrady mentioned.

Overal, the game is playable on my comp... raised a lvl 60 warrior first on the horde side, and was 2nd to be 60 overall in the server.. had some nice equipment epics before i left...basically only did 3 runs of MC =\ and left the game. So yah.

If i can do MC with 40 players your W3V can easily handle it, just decrease some settings. I doubt the game would look THAT much better compared to me with my low settings LOL!

:base: :asus: :centrino:

Thanks,

MysticGolem

 

just so you know my friends 9600 has 10-20 fps at orgrimmar..

i have a desktop with a ti4200 and an athlon 1.6ghz processor with 512mb of ram i get around 3-5 fps lol.. i use 1280 by 1024 by the way with everything set at its lowest.

world of warcraft is more of a ram eater than a gpu eater.

orgrimmar and other major cities naturally lag so you cant really do nothing about it. i have never tested my w3v with wow as i quit before i got it. But with setting at medium to low and no fancy shaders, anti aliasing im sure you can get some decent fps.

 

Hm.. I have 3000+ AMD 64 with 1GB ram and 6600GT, setting is at medium/high but i change from 24bit to 16bit. The picture doesn't look that much diff but the performance improves a lot.

----> No lag at all, except for IF when over 50+ peep stands in one place

 

Well, i've juz added in another PC4200 512mb kingston memory into my w3v. so i can say my w3v had been pimp'd. pushed the settings in WoW to a high graphic settings. worst fps was at 18+fps(very RARE), avg in open air land/cities (crossroads for horde, menthil harbour for alliance) was 25+fps. In indoor land/cities (orgimmar/ironforge/instances) was avg between 35- 45fps. in arathi was about 35fps. preety impressive after adding in 512mb ram, total 1024mb, using everest or the poor cpu-z shows its on dual channel. preety perfect for spending only USD$51+ with international, insured shipping from ebay.

my WoW video settings are now: antistrophic bar was half, terrian distance bar was half, the rest at max bar with full shaders, but with only 1x multisampling (cant change to 2x or 4x or 6x, its somehow being capped.. cant change it!).

 

What server are you on ^_^

 

I'm currently on twisted nethers 53 paladin, and also on dragonmaw 49 UD mage.

 

This sounds like a driver issue to me. Make sure all your settings are set to max performance and not dynamic and make sure your Ati card is set at default or overclocked speeds, and that it's not underclocked to save power in Ati's PowerPlay.

Upgrade your drivers to the latest ones...download the Normal Catalyst drivers for desktop systems and then go get DHmodTool3, which modifies the inf file so it installs on your laptop. No need to download the mobility version of the drivers. No risk in this at all, please trust me

That should do it. Doesn't have anything to do with your harddrive, and I also think it doesn't have anything to do with your amount of ram as 512mb should be fine, although 1gig wouldn't hurt ^_~

Also people are saying lag is the cause, I believe it is not, it sounds like a FPS lag to me, not a latency lag having to do with your connection. Just incase plug your laptop directly into your homenetwork via ethernet cable to test this out.

Cheers,
Mike

 

Well i gotta say its the RAM that played the most significant, as of now with 1 gig ram, my hdd LED doesnt blink that often even with high graphics settings compared to the times with only 512mb ram, my hdd LED kept blinking with normal graphics setting, and it preety lags, and the lag is due to hdd keep spinning in pvps and so on.. =) So 1gig did the job! and also i noticed the fragmentation of the drive doesnt go bad so fast compared using 512mb =D Cheers to 1gig ram!