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World of Warcraft slow down

post #1 of 20
11/20/05 at 9:08pm
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Hello all,

I have been playing WoW on my laptop for about a week now, and have been playing the battle ground Arathi Basin for two days. I have all the options and details set at the highest, and play with no lag at all; however, at some point into the game, or namely Arathi Basin, my system would slow down by a lot, such that it feels like I am trying to play the highest setting on a GeForce 2 card, with all the lags and etc.. It then goes away after about two minutes...

Has this ever happened to anyone else who plays WoW?

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post #2 of 20
11/20/05 at 9:52pm
Sure...your bandwidth is being sucked up or your ping is going to hell...sounds like a connection problem of some sort, unless it's just four million people on the screen at once slowing down your video card...? Do you have 10MBit cable or 56K Dial-Up?
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post #3 of 20
11/20/05 at 10:12pm
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I have a 3MB dsl connection.

What happens is that all of a sudden all the graphics go to hell, the fireball flies at 1 fps per second and when I rotate the view it takes about 30 seconds for one big rotation around me.

If it is connection issue, then the fireballs and animations should still be smooth.

I don't know. Beats me.
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post #4 of 20
11/20/05 at 10:25pm
press ctrl alt dlt after a session of WOW when it happens. go to the performance tab and check peak (lower left). If its higher than the amount of ram you have you need more ram.
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post #5 of 20
11/20/05 at 10:35pm
If your sig is correct, it could be due to the 1GB ram in your system. From what I hear WOW and any other MMORPG are memory hogs and love as much as they can get. Is your hard drive light blinking on a lot while the slow down occurs?
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post #6 of 20
11/24/05 at 3:28pm
I have same problem since 1.8 patch on my fujitsu 3438G.

With the bios GC updated, the last chipset drivers and all forceware version, the fujistu always freeze :/ (sorry for my bad english)
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post #7 of 20
11/24/05 at 4:47pm
Going off someone elses post that I read on here, check your temps. It could be that your graphics card is getting too hot and thorttling down? The once it reaches a safe temp, it will throttle back up, until it hits bad temps again. Just a wild guess like.
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post #8 of 20
11/24/05 at 6:05pm
54°C for the GC & 80°C for the CPU , it's hot ?
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post #9 of 20
11/24/05 at 11:03pm

hmmm

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Originally Posted by tommms
Hello all,

I have been playing WoW on my laptop for about a week now, and have been playing the battle ground Arathi Basin for two days. I have all the options and details set at the highest, and play with no lag at all; however, at some point into the game, or namely Arathi Basin, my system would slow down by a lot, such that it feels like I am trying to play the highest setting on a GeForce 2 card, with all the lags and etc.. It then goes away after about two minutes...

Has this ever happened to anyone else who plays WoW?

I play wow on Darkspear / Alliance.

I have a gen 1 XPS and I have not had this problem that you described.

I get the normal lag due to slower GFX card etc.

I would keep playing in diffrent areas of the world and see how yr unit reacts...

I have 3.4 GHZ p-4 , 1 gig ram, 7200 RPM drive, and Radeon 9800 - 256mb
WOW FTW, And Gen 2 XPS's!

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post #10 of 20
11/25/05 at 8:42am
Hmm, i just recently (of course) bought the XPS M170:
2,23 mhz
2 gigs of ram
60gb 7200rpm
GF7800go gtx

... and i have exactly the same problem as shadowth... i tried running WoW in windowed mode, and it just freezes up. I cant do anything, cant tab out or ecs og alt+f4... really annoying... about 10 mins ago, it did it with GPU temps at 45 degrees celcius!
(moved from the livingroom to an icecold office to see if it were the temps, even though it ran at approx. 60/60 in CPU/GPU)

I run all of the Dell stock drivers, yet i have reformatted (because of this) and didnt reinstall all of the dell junk software (like mediacenter etc)

Maybe i should try some modded drivers? or bios upgrade?
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post #11 of 20
11/25/05 at 9:38am
Just a thought: check your Power Scheme. In Dell QuickSet you should have "Maximum Performance".

Though most likely if the slow-down happened mid-game is that the GPU went too hot and needed to slow down. That may have happened because the fans are blocked by dust for example.
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post #12 of 20
11/25/05 at 4:16pm
Very strange. WoW (AB included) plays butter smooth for me after upgrading to 2 gigs of Ram. I used to have a good deal of disk access especially in IF that would degrade my performance, but things have significantly improved with the memory upgrade. I use laptopvideo2go drivers. I'm currently using 77.72 forceware drivers due to some texture problems I was having in Guild Wars.

Have you guys tried laptopvideo2go drivers? I would say that it sounds like a heat issue where the card is downclocking but after the temp analysis, that doesn't seem to be the case. Strange that it happens to two of you with 7800 cards. Keep us updated.

I'm not sure if you're talking about "freezing" as in halting performance or a significant drop in fps that is more fluid in nature and indicative of the hardware struggling to render. If it's more of a halting freeze then I would suspect a memory issue. Even with 2 gigs I still get that sometimes, especially running through IF near the AH. I can't say I've noticed it in AB, but I haven't really been paying attention. I'll see if I notice anything next time I queue up.
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post #13 of 20
11/25/05 at 7:44pm
Sounds like a background process is sucking up a bunch of power. Maybe a program (like your anti-virus) is checking for updates online.
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post #14 of 20
11/27/05 at 1:55pm
Yeah... Mine completely freezes up, cant do anything, cursor sticks, cant tab out or anything... have to hold the button down for a couple of seconds to reboot the intire machinery...

To make matters worse i tried doing a little hl2, and the exact same thing happened... starting to get very annoyed... Going to bring in Dell Support...
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post #15 of 20
11/30/05 at 9:19am
Any result??? I get the exact same thing, the laptop is great but randomly while paying WoW the entire computer will freeze forcing me to hard reset. I tried differerent drivers, I even reinstalled the OS leaving out all of the Dell junk (but using the provided drivers). Only ever happens with WoW, I play in 1280x800 windowed mode, XPS is top spec (2GB/7200RPM/7800).

Grrrrr, really annoying.
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post #16 of 20
11/30/05 at 1:34pm
i notice on some BOSS battles in MC or BWL I'll lock for a short period of time
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post #17 of 20
11/30/05 at 1:38pm
No this is 100% a driver issue, the drivers dell supply are rubbish. The whole OS would lockup, not just WoW. Also if you opened another window overlapping WoW the WoW display would go crazy. Installed 82.04 from tweaksrus and it's working fine, after an hour of warcrafting the temp is 78'C, 59'C in normal usage (non WoW). I use 1280x800 with all options on full and it's great, the only issues are in places like IF, and that is a Latency/Server problem, not client side.
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post #18 of 20
11/30/05 at 3:59pm
Well if it only does it in that section of the game its has to be that area ?
like the other poster said try in other areas and see, does this make sence ?or am i way off here?
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post #19 of 20
12/1/05 at 6:43am
You ARE way off, probably American?

Anyway, as perviously said the IF LAG is due to latency / servers, HOWEVER the issue with WoW RANDOMLY CRASHING the OS and therefore requiring a hard reset is a DRIVER PROBLEM. I moved to 82.04 from tweaksrus and now it DOES NOT CRASH and there are NO GLITCHES such as mountains suddenly becomming translucent etc.

I hope that was clear enough.
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post #20 of 20
12/1/05 at 10:15am
Ok I take that back, the bloody thing just crashed again. FECK!

Webb, what did Dell support say?
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