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FPS problems with World of Warcraft

post #1 of 10
7/25/07 at 11:07pm
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I recently threw in a 7800 GTX into my Dell XPS M170, and im experiencing some really bad framerates, around 9FPS in combat running world of warcraft, I turned down all the graphics settings, and no changes. Whats wierd, is that I get 70FPS while in cities, but its only when im in a 25 man instance when experiencing these problems.

Any suggestions? I kind of expected a little better performance from this video card.
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post #2 of 10
7/25/07 at 11:16pm
probably drivers or ram issues, especially if lowering graphical details makes no difference.

I would say cpu issues, but having some a few benchmarks in cities during my day in wow, cpu affects city fps with tons of people a lot so I don't believe that's your problem.
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post #3 of 10
7/25/07 at 11:37pm
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I think your probibly right, I had tried some of the drivers they have listed in the info thread on this forum, and after putting the stock dell driver back in, my FPS has gone way up. About to try another 25 man, so I'll see what happens and post my results
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post #4 of 10
7/25/07 at 11:50pm
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Its still doing it with the stock dell driver. Any suggestions?
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post #5 of 10
7/26/07 at 12:40am
be sure to try 101.70s if you are using 32bit vista
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post #6 of 10
7/26/07 at 2:21am
Are you using Vista or XP?
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post #7 of 10
7/26/07 at 8:56am
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I'm using XP professional
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post #8 of 10
7/26/07 at 10:44pm
Sounds like heat issues try sitting in the city for a while and see if your frame rates take a nose dive or BG a bit and if you notice the slowdown hearth to a town and see if you get the same slowdown offending you.
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post #9 of 10
7/27/07 at 4:41am
the way i read it was either
- game issue happens sometimes to some card users when games get updated generally some kind of optimisations.
- graphics Drivers.
- hardware - heat issue but you have vsync enabled so in cities its not maxing but 70hz isnt usual screen refresh and arent cities more buissy then just a 25 man instance that leads me back to game issue or driver.

Ed as my posts above a CEO's does that make me Director?
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post #10 of 10
7/27/07 at 5:51am
It is entirely possible that it is heat, so clean out your vents for starters...

Second, try either the MobileForce or LaptopVideo2Go variant of ForceWare 94.20 or 97.92, and if neither of those two do anything for you, try out the LaptopVideo2Go version of ForceWare 162.18.

If none of those help, it may be something OTHER than video related that could be causing the problem(s), but I think that the above drivers should fix your problems.
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