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Alright, World of Warcraft looks like hell..

post #1 of 18
3/17/05 at 2:13am
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I have a 600m with a 1.8 dothan, 768mb ram, 14.1 xga screen and a 64mb ATI 9000. here is a screenshot:

Here is a screenshot with my gf 8600 1.6 dothan, 512 ram, 15.4 SXGA screen with a 64mb Geforce FX5200 Go card.


Both score around 7000 in 3dmark01. Regardless of framerate, they are both set to the native resolution of the monitors. 1024x768 on my 600m and 1680x1050 on her 8600. My is set to medium settings. Hers is set to high.

My problem is hers looks like hell. The textures looked washed out etc. Does anyone else have this problem? What is wrong?
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post #2 of 18
3/17/05 at 2:28am
are you sure you have the settings right?
I dont think you will be getting good results with those vid cards....
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post #3 of 18
3/17/05 at 4:13am
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Yes the settings are correct and I know I am not going to get the best of the best results. Nothing compared to even my Desktop with a Ti4600. However, the FX5200 looks like absolute hell. I mean the 9000 looks twice as good as the FX5200. I thought since they scored similar 3dmark01 scores, the resolution is way better on the 8600 that at least the 5200 would look somewhat decent.
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post #4 of 18
3/17/05 at 4:22am
So ? The Inspiron 8600 doesn't play WoW very well ? Or was it the other machine ?

And are you asking how to make it brighter ? Press F2 when you press power and see the dell screen. Set brightness there. There are programs designed to brighten notebook screens. Making them brighter. Do you want the link ?
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post #5 of 18
3/17/05 at 4:24am
Check this out.

http://personalcomputing.portrait.com/us/products/

http://personalcomputing.portrait.co..._overview.html
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post #6 of 18
3/17/05 at 5:02am
Nahh...it looks like her texture quality is turned way down or something...don't just set details to 'high', check each setting manually and crank them up (I don't have the game, so I don't know what 'high' means)...try turning on Anisotropic Filtering on her machine in the drivers...also, having the 'bloom' effect turned on in games sometimes prevents driver-side functions from working (like AA and/or AF), so try turning that OFF while yer messing around with things (it may be called something other than 'bloom', but it's the same idea)...

Something is definitely wrong with her settings, though...unless the FX5200 doesn't support the functions necessary to provide detail in WoW (DX9 maybe?) Good luck...
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post #7 of 18
3/17/05 at 7:09am
the fx5200 cant handle wow in that resolution, you need a decent high end card to run at resolution that high.
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post #8 of 18
3/17/05 at 8:50am
Looks like your texture quality settings are set to low in the drivers.

Artag
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post #9 of 18
3/17/05 at 10:51am
LOL the game even looks better on my laptop with 32mb internal graphics!
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post #10 of 18
3/17/05 at 12:21pm
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Originally Posted by marrez
the fx5200 cant handle wow in that resolution, you need a decent high end card to run at resolution that high.
I agree. Similar spec video cards, but you are trying to make one work at xga and one work at WSXGA. The extra pixels mean that the fx5200 is doing a lot more work for the same frame rates and sounds like detail is being sacrificed. I would be surprised if you were getting playable frame rates at 1680 x 1050 with high detail levels. Perhaps WoW or the card is automatically reducing detail settings to keep frame rates playable???

Cheers

PS: I wouldn't even think about anisotropic filtering either you will break the poor bloody card's back
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post #11 of 18
3/17/05 at 2:11pm
What are you objecting to? The darkness is due to the region. Some regions ARE dark like that. If you are talking about jaggies, the game does NOT support antialiasing or antistropic filtering when you turn on full screen glow. Turn it off, and reload, and the jaggies will go away.

If full screen glow is already off, and you still don't like the jaggies, crank the settings up in the desktop control panel.

Also you can change your resolution by hitting escape.
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post #12 of 18
3/17/05 at 2:55pm
No, he's talking about the lack of detail textures....look carefully at each picture, and you'll see what's going on...it's not darkness or jaggies...
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post #13 of 18
3/17/05 at 7:36pm
Geez, it looks better on my 700m at max res than on the 8600 there. Course fps on mine is ahem.. slow..
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post #14 of 18
3/17/05 at 7:52pm
Try turning the 'Mipmap' detail level up, not sure where it is on a NVIDIA, it's under 'Advanced 3D' with ATI. Also make sure you are adjusting it under the right 3D renderer (Direct3D or OpenGL) which ever WoW uses.
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post #15 of 18
3/17/05 at 9:04pm
You mean 'mipmap'? 'Minimap' might be confusing, as there IS a minimap in WoW when yer wandering around...
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post #16 of 18
3/18/05 at 3:41am
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I am well aware of the frame rate. The frame rate is slow at high res. That is not my point. My point is the game looks like ass on the 8600. All details are set to high in World of Warcraft. I have tried setting high quality and force mipmaps in the control panel and it made no difference. Powermizer settings are set to high when the computer is plugged in. The game looks worse than my on my old Dell desktop with a 1.1 ghz P3, 256 mb ram and a 32 mb geforce2 mx.

If anyone else has the Fx5200 or any Nvidia card for that matter have a problem like this? I am going to try to install Omega drivers.
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post #17 of 18
3/18/05 at 3:55am
That's too bad.
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post #18 of 18
3/19/05 at 7:37pm
anyone can tell me where i can download a trial version of WoW?
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