Problems with my rig...(WoW)

Das Ninja

Well, I have no idea what to do at this point. I have tried a hundred different settings on wow, and NOTHING seems to work. Here's the problem:

I just reinstalled wow, and since then I have bought a totally new comp, and it outperforms my old one by 100x. The only thing is, when I start to play the game, it jumps and skips while im running/doing anything. They are not huge skips or anything, but I can notice them a lot, and they are driving me mental. My comp should have NO problems running this game at ultra settings, but i dont even have it that high and it skips, it even does with LOW settings.

Running a Raedeon 4870, quad core Q9300, Gigabyte GBB36X, 4 gigs of ram, all that jazz. Has anyone else encountered this? I'm really hoping someone can lend a hand.

Elin

You are going to have lag in Dalarin or whatever it's called no matter what. Period. If it's in other places I'm not sure what the issue it.

wunderbar

it's likely not so much issues with the comptuer as it is with network atctivity and lag.

Das Ninja

Yea im at the starting DK area, and theres no one around. I was told that it could be because i have a quad core and vista...which would suck. But then again, vista sucks, so maybe i need to get a diff OS

Bendery It Like Beckham

onboard audio?

DrFrylock

Das Ninja wrote: »

Yea im at the starting DK area, and theres no one around. I was told that it could be because i have a quad core and vista...which would suck. But then again, vista sucks, so maybe i need to get a diff OS

Dunno, I play on Vista and it runs great in most of the low-population/older areas. I play on a ~6 month old laptop (with a decent laptop video board, but nothing to write home about).

lifeincognito

I'd have to do some research but it could be because Vista, your motherboard and your ram are having a rough go with addressing locations. My friend ran into a problem with Vista and his motherboard being unable to address all of the ram he had it so maybe you could be having a similar issue?

Rikushix

Whats your ping reading during all of this?

W2

I noticed quite a bit of lag in areas that use the new phasing technology, or whatever they're calling it. The DK starting area and certain areas of Northrend were pretty jumpy.

Adus

Bendery It Like Beckham wrote: »

onboard audio?

Sorry to semi-hijack, but it might save me from creating my own topic.

Can you explain to me why you suggested this, and what the possible solution is? Because I think that's a problem I'm having. Same with some intermittent popping sounds. Problem is, buying a new sound card didn't fix it.

Das Ninja

lifeincognito wrote: »

I'd have to do some research but it could be because Vista, your motherboard and your ram are having a rough go with addressing locations. My friend ran into a problem with Vista and his motherboard being unable to address all of the ram he had it so maybe you could be having a similar issue?

Well, that's the second piece of advice witch involved vista being the problem. Or at least, could be the problem, i guess i'll have to get XP or something and try again. All my drivers are installed, so i dont think it can be that.

Knifa

I had the same problem - small skips, despite it reading out around 80fps.

First, make sure you have vsync turned on, and if you have a dedicated soundcard, audio hardware acceleration. If that doesn't help try:

/console timingMethod 1 (or 2 if that doesn't help)
/console processAffinityMask 15 (since you have quad core)

That should sort it out, hopefully.

Teslan26

^ Echo ^

Vsync solved a similar problem for me.