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• HempHunter Member Posts: 47

  February 2005

  i had a amd 2000+ xp 512mb cl 2,5 ram and a 64 mb gforce 4200 ti before and had only some lag problems when i enter a city or hitting a area with 30+ peeps

  now i got a amd 3000 64 with 1024 mb cl2.0 ram and a gforce 6600gt (almost same system you got) and with max settings i have completly no problems even with emule running in the background so you should be fine with media player
• Tomo2109 Member Posts: 100

  February 2005

  I havent upgraded to a gig of ram and gforce 6600Gt. I just want to know what it will be like when i get it on 11th feb when it comes out here in uk.
• hercules Member UncommonPosts: 4,925

  February 2005

  Well 64mb graphics card is not telling us anything.

  Could be an acceptable ti4200 could be a junky mx440.

  So more details in that card before i can answer you would be nice.
• Tomo2109 Member Posts: 100

  February 2005

  well it's an integrated graphics card not sure what type
• ZenNature Member CommonPosts: 354

  February 2005

  Hi Tomo,

  I'll presume you have a generic 64mb card here (edited my post just to say that yeah, 'integrated' is generic... better check the requirements cuz this might hurt you more then my guess) - but you should be able to run WoW fine at the moment on default detail or slightly lower, which really still looks great and plays great for all intents and purposes. There will be times where it could get frustratingly jerky though due to highly-populated city zones, or whenever there is a lot going on on-screen. I've seen it on rare occasion even with my 128mb GeForce FX 5200 so I know you will too.

  My system is running at AMD-XP1700+, and 512 RAM, with the above-mentioned card, but I run perfectly smooth 90% of the time on default settings and love the graphics in this game. Occasionally I've turned all graphic settings to maximum and run smoothly about 50% of the time, and a little slow or mildly jerky the rest of the time so that's where I get my hypothesis from. I've never seen a game too affected by my CPU (albeit with a little performance-tweaking) so I really think the only thing that can hurt you is the graphics card, and maybe memory. I also frequently run background apps like media player with little affect on game performance. But if I wanted to run on max detail, with no other apps, I could probably do so comfortably 75% of the time in full screen WoW.

  When you upgrade you should see a vast improvement, as in being able to run it at highest detail any time you want with no slowdown or hitch whatsoever. The detail difference between default and highest adds a lot of really impressive touches if you pay attention to detail, like sun reflections off of ice, a shine to copper-hued hills, a vibrant green to grass fields, a golden-glow to crop fields, a colorful brilliance to the night-elven settlements and places, intricate detail with the races and creatures of Azeroth, etc. You'll also be able to run anything (within reason) you want in the background. WoW just doesn't lock up the resources of computers like other games out there, and it feels like it was almost designed to allow other things running with it. I don't doubt it would work fine even before you upgrade as long as your system is well-maintained and optimized like mine. (Ace Utilities & Ad-Aware SE are the dream team here to keep mine running like new)

  If you don't pay much attention to those small details and keep your current configuration, the game still looks and plays great on default detail. You don't need to be concerned about it looking like any other lesser game that is years old. When I turned down my graphics to the lowest just to see what it looked like, it still looked as good as any of the screenshots out there. I wouldn't even doubt that many turn down their detail during raids and such just for performance because it really isn't a big difference graphically except for the smaller details I mentioned above.

  Hope that helps, and welcome to WoW!
• Tomo2109 Member Posts: 100

  February 2005

  
  

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  Originally posted by ZenNature
  
  Hi Tomo,
  I'll presume you have a generic 64mb card here (edited my post just to say that yeah, 'integrated' is generic... better check the requirements cuz this might hurt you more then my guess) - but you should be able to run WoW fine at the moment on default detail or slightly lower, which really still looks great and plays great for all intents and purposes. There will be times where it could get frustratingly jerky though due to highly-populated city zones, or whenever there is a lot going on on-screen. I've seen it on rare occasion even with my 128mb GeForce FX 5200 so I know you will too.
  My system is running at AMD-XP1700+, and 512 RAM, with the above-mentioned card, but I run perfectly smooth 90% of the time on default settings and love the graphics in this game. Occasionally I've turned all graphic settings to maximum and run smoothly about 50% of the time, and a little slow or mildly jerky the rest of the time so that's where I get my hypothesis from. I've never seen a game too affected by my CPU (albeit with a little performance-tweaking) so I really think the only thing that can hurt you is the graphics card, and maybe memory. I also frequently run background apps like media player with little affect on game performance. But if I wanted to run on max detail, with no other apps, I could probably do so comfortably 75% of the time in full screen WoW.
  When you upgrade you should see a vast improvement, as in being able to run it at highest detail any time you want with no slowdown or hitch whatsoever. The detail difference between default and highest adds a lot of really impressive touches if you pay attention to detail, like sun reflections off of ice, a shine to copper-hued hills, a vibrant green to grass fields, a golden-glow to crop fields, a colorful brilliance to the night-elven settlements and places, intricate detail with the races and creatures of Azeroth, etc. You'll also be able to run anything (within reason) you want in the background. WoW just doesn't lock up the resources of computers like other games out there, and it feels like it was almost designed to allow other things running with it. I don't doubt it would work fine even before you upgrade as long as your system is well-maintained and optimized like mine. (Ace Utilities & Ad-Aware SE are the dream team here to keep mine running like new)
  If you don't pay much attention to those small details and keep your current configuration, the game still looks and plays great on default detail. You don't need to be concerned about it looking like any other lesser game that is years old. When I turned down my graphics to the lowest just to see what it looked like, it still looked as good as any of the screenshots out there. I wouldn't even doubt that many turn down their detail during raids and such just for performance because it really isn't a big difference graphically except for the smaller details I mentioned above.
  Hope that helps, and welcome to WoW!
  

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  Thank you very much. That is exactly what i wanted to hear. UNfortunately i am not yet playing it until it comes out this Friday 11th.

  Anyone got any tips for a Night elf hunter and warrior and a human paladin? 
• Unknown

  February 2005

  If you're getting a 6600GT it should be pretty good, i mean, seriously.. you can run this game on a laptop with no problems.

  Just think of it like this: from 512 RAM to 1024 RAM, you're doubling your performance (or giving windows more space to consume for it's greedy spybots and hard disk copiers).

  I can run Win Media 10 in the background playing music while minimized and no visualization with absolutely no effect to my performance what so ever. If you like to have a moving picture in the background while you play a game and cant see it, then you'll have problems .