World of Warcraft on the 1330

Just wondering has anyone played it on the 1330? because i was just wondering if these are bad fps ratings most of the time i get 30 but then some other times id be running at 8-12 fps alot of the time and it seems if i restart my computer it helps. this is with all settings on lowest as well. Furthermore, i tend to get a burning plastic smell a lot of the time I did get it replaced about 8 months ago for a gpu failure. Anyone have insight on either issue? thanks

 

Yeah, I know what you are talking about. I can normally play wow with good framerates on my xps m1330. However, recently the framerate began to randomly alternate between normality and being abysmally low (like 1-5fps).

So I checked my laptop's temperatures and the GPU was at about 70-85 C idle and 100+ C when playing WoW (even after I minimized all the settings). So I'm guessing that's the smell of your GPU melting.

Since then, I've tried a few things to lower the temperature. I bought an aluminum laptop cooler with 3 fairly large fans on it, but it hasn't had any significant effect. I also downloaded the latest BIOS, since I heard that the newer ones increase the fan speed or something. However, my temperatures are still about the same.

Now I'm thinking of getting new drivers for my GPU (8400 GS) in hopes that doing so will affect the temperature somehow. Right now I have version 6.14.11.6909, whatever that is, for Windows XP. I'm having trouble finding out what the best current video driver is for an 8400 GS on XP 32-bit, so if anyone happens to know, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks and good luck!

 

My son is complaining that the WoW frame rate has dropped a lot recently and is now terrible. We have had two motherboard changes due to GPU failure. I have blown the fans out fairly recently (which did seem to reduce the high temperatures I was seeing with this second motherboard). Nevertheless it remains slow. I am wondering if it is a change to the GPU/motherboard or perhaps a recent driver or BIOS change that has changed the behaviour.

 

My son is a bit more specific:

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Even though wow doesn't need high-end graphics there still seems to me a problem, maybe laptop problem but I think its just not connected properly when they fixed the motherboard.
The new 3.0.9 patch is coming out saying higher resolution and maybe that will make it worse - have any of you played in Dalaran? Every time I go there its like 1 fps then 2 then 1 sometimes I get disconnected because of it.

 

I ran it at 1280 x 800 at default and got 40 fps in an instance and not in a major city. In well populated area i got 25 - 35 fps. Use Doxs drivers that might fix it

 

Dalaran is a lagfest, its not the notebook that has a problem.
my desktop running 2 4870s, Q9450 @ 3.6ghz, gaming at 1920 X 1200 drops to a min FPS of 25 in Dalaran in high pop.
Solution is to turn down the shadows, and dial down some settings. Since WotLK launched, WoW's become more graphically intensive. The old stereotype is out the window, sure it'll play on low settings for majority of hardware, but if you want the eyecandy, you'll need the power.

When i subbed out the 4870s with 1 GTX280, min FPS was 35-38 in Dalaran.
With 1 GTX295, min FPS was 30-32