Someone please help :)

Umm yeah, I need a little help too. I have a Dell Inspiron 1150, I can run World of Warcraft but it can be very laggy at times, and lags a little bit most of the time. How do I set my resolutions or settings, ect. To make WoW run faster? How do I set them, and what should I set them to?

Also I am planning on buying a new laptop in about a month or so. What would anyone recomend (Under $1000) that would run WoW smoothly?

 

Trying to run World of Warcraft on the laptop you have is like trying to run a Ferrari with a two-stroke Lawn Boy engine. There's nothing you can really do, aside from setting all in-game details to low and dropping the resolution to 800x600 before you might see somewhat playable framerates.

As far as an upgrade, please read this thread first and follow the instructions contained therein.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=29271

But in your price range, there isn't going to be much, if anything, that will be able to play WoW smoothly. Figure on spending probably in the range of $1200-1500 to get something decent.

 

Saw one in the paper today, don't remember where, under $1000 with an X200 which should handle WoW.

 

If you're looking to buy a laptop, it'd be best to fill out the FAQ and post it in the appropriate forum. Nowadays there are several sub-$1000 notebooks with dedicated GPUs so it shouldn't be a very hard fit.

 

not true, the dell e1505 has an x1400, perfect for wow.

 

I remember some guy managed to scrape together an s96j for very close to $1000. Even min specs, you've got a nice x1600.

 

I would really suggest, to save up to around $1300.

As said before a S96J with X1600 256mb will really handle Wow well and with $1200-$1300 you can get a good config that will last a while.

Trust me, I was gonna buy an E1505 until I saw the S96J, its a much better deal.

The X1600 easily owns the X1400.

 

Just for the record, lag, or network latency, is when it takes too long for data to be sent between server and client. This typically manifests itself as rubberbanding (your character keeps "skipping" back to where he were 10 seconds ago) or actions taking a long time to happen (you click attack, wait 10 seconds before your character starts attacking, or chat messages taking ages to appear)

If your problem is low framerates, that is something entirely different, and has nothing to do with lag. That just means your computer is too slow, so it takes longer than expected to render each frame. If you have a framerate of, say, 5FPS, the screen will only update 5 times per second, which makes the game pretty much unplayable. But it isn't lag. If you click attack, your character starts attacking the next time the screen updates (in 1/5th second, for example). If it was lag, the screen would update just fine, without reacting to what you try to do.

I assume what you're talking about is the latter, but hard to be sure. If it's the former, you just need a better internet connection. (Or a better internet provider. Or maybe you just need to move)

if it's the latter, you need a faster computer.

It's a lot easier to offer advice when people don't use "lag" as the description of every problem they might encounter. It's getting ridiculous in some cases.

 

I think the term lag these days (incorrectly) encapsulates all instances of slow or unresponsive feedback... Whether it's slow client hardware, a slow connection, or crappy pathetic server hardware and software *cough*... it's all "lag".

I don't even bother correcting anyone anymore. I think we're doomed to have the word lag represent all those meanings, especially since the symptoms often don't intuitively belong to a specific category of problems, especially if you're not a techie type person. It's not worth worrying about.