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post #1 of 7
8/5/07 at 11:04pm
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Hey guys... I bought a Gateway MT6451 a few months ago when it was on sale at Best Buy.

I play World of Warcraft regularly and the frame rate is overall rather low. In Shattrath City I get at or less than 10fps, outside questing about 15-20, and up to 25-30 when in instances.

I currently have 1GB ram and I was wondering if upgrading to a couple 1GB sticks, the frame rate would be noticeably better.

Thanks.
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post #2 of 7
8/6/07 at 1:29am
what are you specs?, like processor speed, what graphics card and how much memory both dedicated or shared? are you working with vista or xp?

it would be easier to find out if its the RAM thats slowing you down or the grpahics card or processor or even both.
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post #3 of 7
8/6/07 at 1:32pm
As Johnny mentioned, there are a few different things that can affect your framerate:
#1 is your graphics card (maybe 85-90% of the total effect)
#2 is your processor (7-10%)
and #3 is the amount of RAM you have (3-5%, except in certain games known for high memory requirements)

In your case, the biggest deficiency is that your graphics controller in integrated into the motherboard and not powerful enough to run the game at a higher frame rate. Adding RAM won't do anything for it. The only way to get a noticeably higher frame rate is to play on a computer with a dedicated graphics card. Sorry!
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post #4 of 7
8/6/07 at 1:39pm
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post #5 of 7
8/6/07 at 1:44pm
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Originally Posted by abf View Post
X1150 is the problem there. Not that 1.6 Turion is exactly "fast" but should not be a big bottleneck for WoW of all games. And of course vista is your other problem here.

I don't think changing operating systems is going to make a significant difference with an integrated graphics card
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post #6 of 7
8/6/07 at 2:41pm
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Originally Posted by Djembe View Post
I don't think changing operating systems is going to make a significant difference with an integrated graphics card

granted... but vista eating his ram and cpu cycles like there is no tomorrow will still degrade performance significantly... though as far as WoW performance is concerned, you are right...doing that might gain him back less than 5fps, its the video card that would make most difference here.
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post #7 of 7
8/7/07 at 12:07am
djembe is right, while changing the OS might decrease his RAM usage his graphics card is still the same, so changing graphics card would dramatically help (only if that was possible in a laptop)
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