World of Warcraft on S12 ION

Received a shiny new Lenovo S12 Nvidia ION laptop yesterday. Installed WoW (World of Warcraft) late last night. The game runs choppy in 1280x800 mode, even with many of the settings turned down to low.

I tried most of the tips posted on the official Warcraft message boards for improving performance. The tips helped a little, but the game is still choppier than I want or expected. Can anyone give me specific tips for improving WoW on a Lenovo S12 ION laptop? I am hoping a few people who read these boards are currently playing WoW or some kind of games on the S12 ION. The Lenovo S12 ION is one of the few netbooks that is built to handle moderate gaming (like WoW.)

 

What NVIDIA driver are you using? Remember, you don't have to use a Lenovo one, you have access to all the notebook drivers at nvidia.com.

 

i think wow will run smooth if you oc the atom from 1.6 to 2.0 ghz. that was what all the users of the asus n10j were doin with their machines. they ran wow ok and that machine has a 9300m. so im assuming your bottleneck is cpu atm not video.

you may want to turn off AA also

 

I am using the 186.69 driver from the Lenovo website. Last night I downloaded the 195.62 driver from the nvidia website. I heard good things about the 195.62 driver with nvida ion, but when I tried to install it, I got the "Could not find a compatible driver for your video card" message. Is there some trick to installing the 195.62 driver on the S12 ION? Which video driver would you recommend for the S12 ION and how should I go about installing it?

 

I turned off anti-aliasing.

I agree that it's probably the CPU that is the bottleneck. I have searched all over the net for how to overclock the Lenovo S12 ION, and I cant find any instructions on how to OC that particular laptop. Do you know how to OC the CPU on a Lenovo S12 ION? If so, please share it with us or point us in the right direction.

 

195.62 is the one to use, and I'm surprised that the INF didn't find your GPU's devid... there shouldn't be a trick there. Just run the setup.exe.

 

Well, I discovered something interesting...

I downloaded the 195.62 notebook driver (again) and I downloaded the 195.62 desktop driver. Once again I tried to install the 195.62 notebook driver, and once again it told me I didnt have a compatible device. So I then tried to install the 195.62 desktop driver, and guess what? The desktop driver installed onto my S12 ION laptop! How strange huh? The 195.62 laptop driver refuses to install but the 195.62 desktop driver works. I wonder if nvidia accidentally put the info for the S12 ION in the desktop infs but forgot to put them in the laptop infs. Crazy stuff.

I would still prefer to use the 195.62 laptop drivers if I can. More importantly however, I need to figure out how to overclock the processor on the S12 ION. I think the processor is the major bottleneck towards smoothing gaming.