Chop on WoW

Just got a new computer. HP dv6636nr with the Geforce 7150M graphics card.

I am playing WoW with the lowest possible settings, save for the resolution (it's at the highest widescreen).

There will be points where I am getting a smooth 40-60FPS. The next second, in the same spot, the FPS will drop to 10-19 and the sound gets extremely distorted. After a bit it will go back to smooth sailing. It is not dependent on my location.

I have even tried this in the lowest resolution, and it does the same thing. I ordered 4gigs of RAM from newegg, should be in this week. I have tried closing every unnecessary process in the background. But does anyone know the problem?

 

Its part of game play....but that is if there is ALOT of activity in the current frames...

 

No...it can be in a completely empty area...

When I minimize, then bring it back up, the FPS is always really good. Then after about a minute it goes back into a chop mode.

I could be in a totally flat, area with nothing else, and it does this.

 

Does the 7150 have powermizer?

Does it do the same at smaller resolutions? Is the hard disk activity light on when it does this? How much ram does the laptop have?

 

It's the game. I use to have the same problem on my old nvidia 6800 desktop card. I now have a 8800gt and in some maps it does dip down.

Guessing it's the game and the way it was made. Try defragmenting.

 

Hello, I had noticed a similar problem on WoW with a roomate's desktop. His performance was far from what it should have been and he was experiencing slow-down periods for no good reason. The problem was that he was constantly running WoW in windows mode. In the video options, make sure windows mode in not selected. Worth a shot. GL.

 

Don't know what powermizer is.

It does this less frequently and with worse chop the lower the resolution. The laptop currently has 2gigs.

I am not in windowed mode, I'd like to be, but it decreases performance too much.


I played this on another computer 1.5gigs of RAM and a ATI Radeon x700 Pro (or something like that). I had everything maxed out, and this never happened.

 

I don't remember that ever happening on my x200m, if lagged up when it wasloading a lot on certain areas but that was really just Stormwind, apart from that it was fine. My desktop neevr lags at all in WoW.

 

I have 4gigs now, Vista is recognizing 3.2gigs. It's still doing the same thing, though.

 

Crank your view distance down, and your resolution down. That should help. Just because you get good framerates SOMETIMES doesn't mean that's what it should be. Everyone gets ups and down. Adjust it so the "lows" aren't too low.