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My settings, sadly, are set to the lowest they can go. I've cleared the cache, etc, etc, but for whatever reason my FPS drops to 1 (or less) and then back up to a comfortable 30 or above.
I used to think it only happened when I tried to go into the Canal District, but it seems to happen even if I'm just sitting still...
Any suggestions?
...besides buying a new computer.
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I had the exact same problem.
In my case however, it was the video card overheating. The only thing I could do was get a better fan and let it breathe in there.
In your case it could be either one of these two: video or ram memory. If I were in your shoes I'd go through a couple of technical steps.
1. Changing the Video Card Drivers
Go for a newer version if possible. Sometimes it helps to use an older one as well, don't go too low though.
2. Do some maintenance on your PC
There's a lot of steps I'd go for here.
First, I recommend getting yourself a software called "TuneUp Utilities", I think 2009 is the newest version so far. It basically does a lot of maintenance work on your PC. Clears all sorts of invalid entries in the registry as well as emptying disk space, solving problems (whatever software nature they are) and increases the performance a lot. It also has a built-in Disk Defragmenter which should help you run things smoother.
3. Ads and stuff
Ads and spyware could also damage your performance. Best cleaner I've found so far is called XoftSpy. Maybe you could try that too and clean your PC before running wow. Seriously it could be this. A small hidden application running in background that eats up the memory that should be allocated to WoW and it basically makes it go slow. TuneUp Utilities along with XoftSpy should do the trick.
By the way. What AV are you using? You never know. ^^
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It might be the video card. This thing is on 24/7...
I'll try the video drivers and the maintenance... This computer is wicked old... made up of parts I salvaged from other wicked old computers I had lying around. <.<
As for spyware, that might also be it since my brother plays some stupid First-Person Shooter that he can't play if the firewall isn't off. I've visited the site of this game but it won't tell me what port to open... >.<
My anti-virus is Verizon Internet Security Suite... not all that good, really. It insists on running a virus scan every day despite having set it to once a week...
But I'll try out your suggestions and tell you how it went. ^.^
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Suggestion #4 - Turn off your PC from time to time. xD
I used to keep it on 24/7 as well until the blue screens of death and whatnot began to show up.
I'm not familiar with that AV. I've ran so many on my PC and none of 'em satisfied my needs. That is until I stumbled onto Eset's NOD32. Seems to get along well with my system.
I sure hope those things help you. Awaiting your reply after the whole deal. :mrgreen:
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When you were having this problem, were you also getting random white squares on your action bars, bag slots, and on the floor?
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Only before loading a very detail-loaded zone (usually around Northrend) but I'm guessing that's a given.
No other odd things, except my screen would flicker every now and then and at the end of 4-5 flickers the game would just crash into a blue screen. xD
Edit:
Good lord that's definitelly video related.
What card have you got?
Later Edit:
You might also try this thing. I always keep it handy whenever I have troubles running WoW.
Quote:Changing Display Settings in Config.wtf
To resolve these problems turn Specularity and Pixel Shaders to "0".
- Open the World of Warcraft folder on your hard drive. This is normally at C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft
- Open the WTF folder.
- Open the Config.wtf file using a text editor, like Wordpad.
- Change SET specular "1" to SET specular "0"
- Change SET pixelShaders "1" to SET pixelShaders "0"
- Save the file and start the game again.
Note: You may not see the lines you need to change; in this situation, please type the full lines in manually.
Running the game in 'OpenGL' mode may cause certain graphical effects not to display properly. Switching the rendering mode of the game from 'OpenGL' to 'Direct 3D' can resolve some display issues.
- Open the World of Warcraft folder on your hard drive.
- Open the WTF folder.
- Open the Config.wtf file using a text editor, like Notepad.
- Change SET gxApi "opengl" to SET gxApi "direct3d"
- Save the file and start the game again.
Also, some video cards may require you to disable the 'UI Acceleration' feature.
- Open the World of Warcraft folder on your hard drive.
- Open the WTF folder.
- Open the Config.wtf file using a text editor, like Notepad.
- Change Set UIFaster "x" where x equals one of the following numbers:
0 - This turns off all UI acceleration
1 - For Internal Use Only - DO NOT USE!
2 - Enables partial UI acceleration only.
3 - Enables all UI acceleration.
- Save the file and start the game again.
It is recommended to first try option 2 in order to correct the problem. If this does not solve the issue, then use option 0 to disable all UI Acceleration.
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And if all else fails reset your config.wtf to its default and just edit your command pathway for your wow.exe to read
"C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Launcher.exe" -opengl
In return some of your icons will not be correct from time to time, but your frame rate will improve. Sounds like you may have an ATI card, when Blizzard introduced the shader models in the texture pallets since patch 2.8 it has been an issue for older cards as well as anything from the ATI card family predating
the 9550 series.
Good luck.
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Quote:You might also try this thing. I always keep it handy whenever I have troubles running WoW.
I did everything there except for the last part. It's running alright for now, but we'll see what happens later. It might still have something to do with it overheating.
Quote:Good lord that's definitelly video related.
What card have you got?
Quote:Sounds like you may have an ATI card, when Blizzard introduced the shader models in the texture pallets since patch 2.8 it has been an issue for older cards as well as anything from the ATI card family predating
the 9550 series.
Unfortunetly, software is my forte, not hardware, so I know absolutely nothing about the card I have save for the name and that it has to be incredibly old as I can't even run some of my most favorite (and old) games without it lagging or crashing.
It's a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 running NVIDIA driver version 5.2.1.6
...yeah, I need a completely new computer. :?
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Well it couldn't be the card itself.
Before I got myself a new PC I ran WoW on the same one @ 64mb using 512 mb ram. Of course I had to run it on lower details to increase performance but didn't have any trouble with it at all. Didn't even had to modify the .cfg files.
If it goes to hell again, experiment with different drivers. Overheating sounds like one of the top things you may consider though, yeah. Could try getting a fan too in order to better distribute the heat. Prices vary but I'm sure you can find something cheap and good as a temporary solution until you can get your hands on a new PC. ^^
Here's to hoping it remains stable! :mrgreen:
