by Langston » Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:33 am
Scoota - a couple of things to try:
- Defragment your hard drive as Martrae says. There is a lot of disk accessing going on and if the hard drives are thrashing, you're losing performance.
- Upgrade your memory (if necessary). I through another 512MB into my laptop (which was like a slide show in Org) and now it's as smooth as my desktop (just without the pretty graphics that my desktop's vid card supports). Total memory in my laptop is now 736MB and it has a crappy laptop video chipset.
- Try setting your link speed from 100Mbit to 10Mbit. This is a theory being passed around on some boards right now. A personal friend of mine was having extraordinary issues with lag on his system. The hardware was more than adequate to push the game, but he was still experiencing lag over 1000ms. He dropped his connection speed to 10Mbit on his switch and saw a dramatic improvement. Why this helps is beyond me... it makes zero sense - but it's starting to float around as a potential help to cure some lag issues.
All in all, though, there is still definitely a lag issue in Org and other highly populated places (populated meaning PCs as well as NPCs/MOBs). Also, WoW caches textures from the various zones you've visited in that session as well as all of the creature textures that you've seen. Over time, this cache eats up your memory in a major way causing continuously degraded performance as you move around in the game world and play for a period of time. If you habitually tend to move around a lot, from Org to UC to instances, etc. in a single gaming session, consider closing down WoW, waiting for your hard drive to stop thrashing and then relogin. This clears all the cached textures you've picked up in your travels. It will increase your performance in instances if you do it right before you enter. It's a hastle, but it's something I did regularly when playing on my laptop while travelling.
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