8600 m gt, 2 gb ram, vista ultimate - 8 fps in WoW WTF??

Shouldnt my computer be super powerful enough to run this damn game? Thank you.. I hope I didn't burn $1100 for nothing.

 

Did you get your latest video drivers and install them?

 

maybe the settings are too high

 

Medium settings.

 

Bloatware removal, system optimization, get rid of User Error...

 

OS: XP

Problem fixed!

Well, possibly, but yes, latest video drivers help, and it really depends where you are, an area of high concentration of other players or objects? Or is it, normal, say, even looking into the sky?

Even then, it should not be that low...

 

maybe anti aliasing is on?

 

what is antialiasing and how do i get rid of that mother *)@#@(

 

vista ultimate...that might be the problem. also agree with other posters...

 

idk y people are getting on vista's (#*$# but once you do some bloatware removal, go to the windows and os section of this forum, there is a vista tweaking guide, use that, and you should have a relatively fast os. Also, you should try messing with the in-game settings and try to find Anti-Alaising and Antiscroptic filtering(idk if i spelled those right )...try turning those down or off. Also update the drivers for your video card and see if there is any patches for the game(idk if there are any, since I do not play WoW).

 

wow should run smooth as silk on that system. get some hotfixes for vista...

 

I maxed WoW on 800x600 on a FX5200...

Remove bloatware, best way is to do a clean install...

 

up to 29 fps now - still too low

 

did you do what i mentioned b4?

Edit: also try turning off any unneeded programs whilst playing WoW, that might help. Also make sure your laptop isnt running in power saver mode, which lowers cpu/gpu clocks and voltage.

 

When I got my laptop with Vista Premium, games like HL2, Episode One, and CSS ran like crap; I'm talking about 10-15fps here. I didn't even bother to look around for a solution since it shouldn't happen. I simply installed XP MCE and now the problem is gone.

 

there was your problem right there. IMHO, Vista's default settings are for what microsoft thinks of as "normal users", which probably do not include gamers.

 

so, they just release the system and expect people who enjoy playing games at a reasonable rate to tweak stuff themselves? they might be good gamers, but not good researchers. i'm saying that, b/c u don't have to tweak most stuff in xp...i, however, did use xp smoker

 

theres not a lot of stuff you have to tweak in vista either....mostly having to remove bloatware, and turning off some transitioning effects. and it's not a matter of having to, but a matter of wanting to

 

yeah, no pain - no gain, right?

 

exactly...

 

I do understand all the talk about Vista v. XP, bloatware, optimizing, and tweaking, but you guys have to understand that the system should be able to play WOW on high smoothly without having to do a thing. Actually, you can throw a few viruses in there, and it should still run fine.

 

Vista premium runs WoW at 1440X900 along with High and medium settings, 40-60fps steady. CS:S 100 FPS, 133 in the stress test with all high. I am using the 163.44 laptop2go drivers.

 

I would assume either a driver problem, underclocked gpu, or the laptop is running powersave mode. Despite Vista being bloaty and slow, even with 70+ processes going, it shouldn't be that bad.

 

yea make sure your battery is set to high preformance

 

^^^ what i was going to say i run vista and have seen very little impact from it on games... i dont know why people always say its vista as the first thing.. vista runs fine for me no issues..

 

Stupid question...

Is your Vista Ultimate 32 or 64 bit?

Perhaps WoW has issues with 64-bit systems?

 

It's most likely a driver problem. Upddate your video drivers and windows updates and let us know?

 

Get newer drivers.
Make sure you are running in high-performance mode, try to use AC power and not battery.

The problem isn't Vista. I have very similar components and get 60+ FPS in WOW with MAX settings while running iTunes, FRAPS, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, a TV Tuner program, and multiple instances of Internet Explorer. I use Ultimate 32-bit.

 

similar with 4 gigs of ram and a 2.4 ghz processor?

 

WoW is CPU limited so I'm going to agree it's a power setting issue.

 

i seem to be getting quoted a lot

 

In reality, that's only about 1 gig of extra ram. 2 vs 3 because of the 32-bit nature of things.

The processor isn't the issue.

I mean come on, I have a C2D 1.6 with a GMA 950 and 1 gig of Ram that runs WOW at low-med settings at a steady 9 FPS. In Vista, too!

This is just ridiculous.

 

yeah,yeah i was just teasing u

 

Yeah, I noticed.

Another idea!!!

Try defragmenting your hard drive!!

Click the start button and type defrag

Click on the first option, press "continue", and press "defragment now."

Now it'll take a little while, but it might fix some of your slow framerate issue.

WOW gets seriously smashed if any of its enormous dat files are fragmented.

 

my HP zt3000 with ATI radeon 9200 used to get 15-27fps during my time playing ...such as during raid and pvp etc...

 

Vista is nothing but a HEADACHE in general. Been there, done that. Switched back to XP, and all my gaming woes went away. I didn't have to tweak a THING.

Give Vista another year or year and a half, after a first service pack release and drivers mature a lot more, then maybe the story will change.

Vista isn't very legacy friendly either, so if a game pre-2007 doesn't run with it out of the box, chances are small there will be any improvement.

 

I want to go back to XP but don't have time for that exams are coming up...
So after being stuck with Vista for the past three weeks, I began to like it..It WORK VERY WELL.
Besides a few issueS, printer driver not work, firefox refuse to work at time, and use of excess memory, lack of drivers for just about anything, sleepmode work/not work with different nvidia driver, Just a few issues, just a few...

 

He should be able to install WoW on any version of Vista without any tweaks with all the bloatware in the world and still run it on all high settings at max resolution (1440x900 I think) on that system. WoW's what.. 3 years old now and even when it was launched in 2004, it was behind the times graphically (for a reason). Hell, he should be able to run multiples of that game in windowed mode.

I would agree with the above posts that the CPU is probably in power save mode or some such performance stepping. Otherwise there's something wrong with the hardware.

 

Man, am I the only person on Earth that hasn't had any issues with Vista? The only "issue" I had was when I switched my power saving to 'low power', and forgot to customize the CPU usage so that it was 100% while plugged in (I maximized everything else for performance while plugged in, and power savings on battery). Even then, I could still play CS:S, HL2, and Warcraft 3 all on max settings and get around 60 FPS in game, and thats with 50% CPU usage.

Other then that, the only other thing was getting Bioshock to run which was a combination of drivers, updating DirectX, and replacing some files Steam broke while decrypting my prepurchase; so I wouldn't say that was Vistas fault.

I dunno, I enjoy Vista. Works great for me. The only thing that irks me is the weird placement of network customization crap, but thats probably because I'm too used to XP.

 

if your going vista at all go vista x64, otherwise stick to xp...x64 apparently is alot better from what ive heard.

 

let's see what the guy has to say...anything?! lol

 

The ONLY gripe I have about Vista is slow network transfers. Otherwise, I consider it a VAST improvment over XP. It crashes less, it is organized more efficiently, and everything just works better. Games I play in Vista play at the same FPS they do in XP (at this point, it took awhile). Games I could not play in XP (or took extreme tweaking) will run smoothly in Vista. It took me 2 days to get SystemShock 1 running in XP and it took me about 2 minutes in Vista (thank you FUNCTIONAL compatibility modes).

I was a Vista hater before I tried it and gave it a chance. All of this eternal *****ing and moaning going on from people about how much it sucks is fine and all, I just wish they'd quiet down a bit and not berrate the OS at every turn. Especially when they don't even use it.

Vista hate has essentially formed a preverse, fundamental (XP-centric) religion. Most of the people who complain give reasons they have memorized from other users. They don't even try it out themselves, they take all the nay-saying and do a cut/paste.

Whatever. If you hate it, use XP and deal with it. I don't want to hear about how you don't get DX10, that is your choice, live with it.

So, OP, any luck?

 

I agree on every point (dont worry I wont form a vista-centric religion based on your points lol).

 

Seriously? I was expecting to get Uber flamed.

Maybe we fixed the OPs problem?

 

Yea man, I love vista its soo much smoother than xp ever was, especially love the fast opening and closing of windows with slight fade effect. Gaming performance after applying a few patches is on par with XP sure 3dmark06 is a couple hundred points lower but I dont give a crap about that stuff, DX10 does not cost me a major fps hit at all.

Vista is just very sleek and elegant, the team at Microsoft did a good job (i will get flamed twice now, for saying microsoft did a good job and not spelling it with that annoying $ instead of a proper s)

Yep hope we did fix his problem, if he hasnt posted for a while hes probably back to his wow addiction

 

+rep for speaking the truth

 

PROBLEM FIXED

Settings on my laptop were set on Battery Power mode. Also my CPU kept downclocking itself even when it was IDLE.


About 40% of my drivers were outdated. I ran defrag and now I get 80+ fps everywhere easily.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!

 

glad we could be of assistance!
now let the war begin!!

 

NO...STOP....NO WAR...well that's all i have to say. lol

 

Vista Ultimate is fine, try again.