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Acer Aspire 5100 Question

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I recently got this laptop...yesterday. Anyways, I downloaded all the updates for vista, cleaned out programs I didn't need/want running. Updated the graphics card and the CCC and world of warcraft runs really really slow. I know this ain't the top of the line gaming laptop but I know it should be running better than 6-14fps. No other programs are running when I am trying to play wow. I have all the graphics on lowest possible setting and all special effects turned off. I have spent hours upon hours online trying to find out what to do to fix the problem. Any help on fixing this problem would be great. Thanks for the help.

Oh yeah, I'm also using ethernet cable to play the game not using wireless.
Specs

Windows Vista™ Home Premium
AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 (2x256KB L2 cache, 1.6GHz)
1GB (512/512) DDR SDRAM
120GB hard drive
integrated Super-Multi drive (DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RAM)
5-in-1 card reader; 15.4" WXGA (1280 x 800) TFT display
integrated ATI® Mobility™ Radeon® Xpress 1100 graphics
802.11b/g WLAN, 10/100 LAN, V.92 modem
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I'm pretty sure this is a ram issue, as I have the exact same machine as you (xcept with 2gigs and XP) and WoW runs smoothly at max res and low-medium settings.

So given that you only have 1gig and running Vista, I'll bet that you're running short on ram for the game. Open the task manager and see how much ram u have free with ur computer idling. Then fire up WoW and see how much ram is left then. If your memory usage goes over the 1gb mark, then that's your problem as the system is using the pagefile and thus slowing down ur game considerably.
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