Comments on: World of Warcraft – Poor Frame Rates on Windows Vista http://www.philoking.com/2007/01/28/world-of-warcraft-poor-frame-rates-on-windows-vista/ Thoughts from my warped little mind... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:16:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jake http://www.philoking.com/2007/01/28/world-of-warcraft-poor-frame-rates-on-windows-vista/comment-page-3/#comment-23212 jake Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:15:17 +0000 600837603#comment-23212 i started playing wow on a pc then i quit wow got a vista and then wanted to play agian but i noticed it wouldnt work. can somone please help me i started playing wow on a pc then i quit wow got a vista and then wanted to play agian but i noticed it wouldnt work. can somone please help me

]]> By: Bert http://www.philoking.com/2007/01/28/world-of-warcraft-poor-frame-rates-on-windows-vista/comment-page-3/#comment-22101 Bert Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:10:46 +0000 600837603#comment-22101 Well this is my experience with vista. My previous pc configuration running XP was AMD Athlon XP 2800+ 1.5 gig RAM ASUS 6600 GT 256 mb WoW cruised around 40 to 50fps. Nice and smooth. Well put Vista Premium on and i was lucky to break 15fps. I got to reading and saw how much machine vista needed so i upgraded to: AMD athlon 64 4200+ Dual Core ATI HD 2600 XT 512mb 4 gigs of RAM My fps then in WoW was a steady 60fps. Put my old rig back on xp and it is running at 40 to 50 fps once again. The real kicker is, since WoTLK came out my main machine with vista has dropped to below 20fps and my old machine on xp is still running in the 40s. I still have yet to figure out how this is possible. Well this is my experience with vista. My previous pc configuration running XP was

AMD Athlon XP 2800+
1.5 gig RAM
ASUS 6600 GT 256 mb

WoW cruised around 40 to 50fps. Nice and smooth. Well put Vista Premium on and i was lucky to break 15fps. I got to reading and saw how much machine vista needed so i upgraded to:

AMD athlon 64 4200+ Dual Core
ATI HD 2600 XT 512mb
4 gigs of RAM

My fps then in WoW was a steady 60fps. Put my old rig back on xp and it is running at 40 to 50 fps once again.

The real kicker is, since WoTLK came out my main machine with vista has dropped to below 20fps and my old machine on xp is still running in the 40s. I still have yet to figure out how this is possible.

]]> By: MADOGRE http://www.philoking.com/2007/01/28/world-of-warcraft-poor-frame-rates-on-windows-vista/comment-page-3/#comment-22082 MADOGRE Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:32:20 +0000 600837603#comment-22082 Most of you that are posting poor FPS dont have systems strong enough to run vista. XP is much better for 2 year old or more systems. If you dont have a DX10 video card, capable of runing DX10 games, why bother? To the above guy having problems with the Crossfire ATI cards, 2 things, first WOW does not like nor use CF or SLI, 2nd the game just runs better on NV cards. Most of you that are posting poor FPS dont have systems strong enough to run vista.
XP is much better for 2 year old or more systems.
If you dont have a DX10 video card, capable of runing DX10 games, why bother?
To the above guy having problems with the Crossfire ATI cards, 2 things, first WOW does not like nor use CF or SLI, 2nd the game just runs better on NV cards.

]]> By: random http://www.philoking.com/2007/01/28/world-of-warcraft-poor-frame-rates-on-windows-vista/comment-page-3/#comment-21799 random Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:34:20 +0000 600837603#comment-21799 Erm i just got WoW And my Computer is Windows Ultimate 7 And im not sure if it is compatible with WoW? Erm i just got WoW And my Computer is Windows Ultimate 7 And im not sure if it is compatible with WoW?

]]> By: j-o http://www.philoking.com/2007/01/28/world-of-warcraft-poor-frame-rates-on-windows-vista/comment-page-3/#comment-21269 j-o Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:05:55 +0000 600837603#comment-21269 I'd like to know something. It's almost my birthday and I had a question about Windows xp/Vista. i'd like to know what's better for Wow. Is Windows Xp better, or Windows vista? I really wanna know this, What computer should i choose? about 2 days is my birthday >.< Please send message at my e-mail =] I’d like to know something.
It’s almost my birthday and I had a question about Windows xp/Vista.
i’d like to know what’s better for Wow. Is Windows Xp better, or Windows vista? I really wanna know this, What computer should i choose? about 2 days is my birthday >.<

Please send message at my e-mail =]

]]> By: KillGuta http://www.philoking.com/2007/01/28/world-of-warcraft-poor-frame-rates-on-windows-vista/comment-page-3/#comment-20091 KillGuta Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:30:40 +0000 600837603#comment-20091 Don't really know why you guys got these problems, but my WoW is running VERY smoothly (exactly like on XP). Also I am using a self moded Vista SP1 version. http://www.vlite.net/ to pimp your Vista :) . Don’t really know why you guys got these problems, but my WoW is running VERY smoothly (exactly like on XP). Also I am using a self moded Vista SP1 version.

http://www.vlite.net/ to pimp your Vista :) .

]]> By: yourmom http://www.philoking.com/2007/01/28/world-of-warcraft-poor-frame-rates-on-windows-vista/comment-page-3/#comment-20041 yourmom Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:11:10 +0000 600837603#comment-20041 ok i gotta a couple problems with the framerate too... i have a 2ghz processor, 2gb of ram, a nvidia 7600, and of course, vista. I had xp before and the game worked great, but for some reason i downloaded vista. Now the framerate sucks and i want a couple tips just in case there is a way to up the framerate without going back to vista....any ideas? ok i gotta a couple problems with the framerate too…
i have a 2ghz processor, 2gb of ram, a nvidia 7600, and of course, vista. I had xp before and the game worked great, but for some reason i downloaded vista. Now the framerate sucks and i want a couple tips just in case there is a way to up the framerate without going back to vista….any ideas?

]]> By: Deus http://www.philoking.com/2007/01/28/world-of-warcraft-poor-frame-rates-on-windows-vista/comment-page-3/#comment-19979 Deus Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:48:33 +0000 600837603#comment-19979 This is going to sound pretty stupid compared to some of the others but I changed the Multisampleing down to the lowest setting and my Frame rate jumped form 4-5 to almost 30! yes it dosent look as good but damn is it smooth. This is going to sound pretty stupid compared to some of the others but I changed the Multisampleing down to the lowest setting and my Frame rate jumped form 4-5 to almost 30! yes it dosent look as good but damn is it smooth.

]]> By: WoW-Freak http://www.philoking.com/2007/01/28/world-of-warcraft-poor-frame-rates-on-windows-vista/comment-page-3/#comment-19875 WoW-Freak Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:07:52 +0000 600837603#comment-19875 Got laptop with Vista home Premium, (Acer Aspire 7730g, Intel centrino 2 duo 2.0ghz, Nvidia Geforce 9600m gt 512mb, 4gb ram. After i instaled wow i had it runing at 100fps. After 1 week of playing, it droper dramaticly to 20fps, everything on computer started lagging, even my mouse pointer, so i have reinstaled my vista for 5 times allready, and it works fine for about 1week, after that the lag starts all over again, I instaled xp pro once, but then i did nto find drivers for xp(everything was only for vista) Im nearly at the state of troughing my laptop out of my window. Got laptop with Vista home Premium, (Acer Aspire 7730g, Intel centrino 2 duo 2.0ghz, Nvidia Geforce 9600m gt 512mb, 4gb ram. After i instaled wow i had it runing at 100fps. After 1 week of playing, it droper dramaticly to 20fps, everything on computer started lagging, even my mouse pointer, so i have reinstaled my vista for 5 times allready, and it works fine for about 1week, after that the lag starts all over again, I instaled xp pro once, but then i did nto find drivers for xp(everything was only for vista) Im nearly at the state of troughing my laptop out of my window.

]]> By: Cheetah http://www.philoking.com/2007/01/28/world-of-warcraft-poor-frame-rates-on-windows-vista/comment-page-3/#comment-19699 Cheetah Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:32:35 +0000 600837603#comment-19699 I have a Gigabyte x48 mobo, ATi 3870's in Crossfire (latest drivers), 8 gigs of RAM runnnig under Vista Ultimate and WoW will not run - it freezes up every time. Yes, I've tried everything, including replacing the mobo, replacing ram, replacing the sound card (SB X-Fi) and one of my hard drives (2 750 gigs in Raid 1). I have had it with Vista and am going to go back to XP. In Vista's 64 bit o/s I have about 6 programs that I used on a regular basis that won't work under it, and all worked fine in XP. If at least WoW worked I'd probably find workarounds for those other prog.s, but I'm tired of trying "fixes" for a crappy o/s. Bah! I have a Gigabyte x48 mobo, ATi 3870’s in Crossfire (latest drivers), 8 gigs of RAM runnnig under Vista Ultimate and WoW will not run – it freezes up every time. Yes, I’ve tried everything, including replacing the mobo, replacing ram, replacing the sound card (SB X-Fi) and one of my hard drives (2 750 gigs in Raid 1). I have had it with Vista and am going to go back to XP. In Vista’s 64 bit o/s I have about 6 programs that I used on a regular basis that won’t work under it, and all worked fine in XP. If at least WoW worked I’d probably find workarounds for those other prog.s, but I’m tired of trying “fixes” for a crappy o/s. Bah!

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