omg seriously

Post by **Lyion** » Fri May 04, 2007 10:43 am

Fire up Ubuntu on your laptop! It plays WOW btw. better than Vista!

I loaded up my secondary PC with Vista. It has an AMD 3700, 2 Gigs of DDR RAM, ATI 1950 Pro 512 Meg... annnnnddd... It played all my games like crap. Much slower than my Media Center PC, even with much less RAM and a far weaker video card.

There's a reason Dell has started offering Ubuntu on their laptops, as well as XP again.

leah · Post by **leah** » Fri May 04, 2007 10:46 am

omg i don't think i have near enough computer smarts to figure out linux ><

i found some random message board (via googling for wow problems whilst at work . . . i love my job, because it looks like i'm just doing research for an article lol) that had a lot of suggestions for what to do (not surprisingly, almost everyone who posted was having the same problems). i'm writing it all down and will try different things when i get home. also, they referred me to an updated graphics driver, so hopefully that'll help, too.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Fri May 04, 2007 11:00 am

There honestly should be no reason you can't get XP drivers for anything on a new system...

leah · Post by **leah** » Fri May 04, 2007 11:10 am

i downloaded pretty much everything i could find, and nothing worked. vista has already been reinstalled and so has wow and all of my other antivirus programs and stuff so i'd just as soon keep things how they are now and try my best to make do with what i have, which is, unfortunately, vista.

i get that you don't like vista, sir, but it's what i've got to work with, so i'm going to do the best that i can to make it work with these other fixes and wait until there are decent patches and whatnot to make things better.

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Fri May 04, 2007 11:13 am

oh disable your antivirus shit while playing WoW.

leah · Post by **leah** » Fri May 04, 2007 11:19 am

ugh really? that's a pain in the ass lol

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Fri May 04, 2007 11:21 am

not really, you should be able to shut down most of it.

Honestly I don't run anything except a hardware firewall, strict HTML settings, & manual scan of all executables that I download & I haven't had anything more severe than a tracking cookie in a year.

leah · Post by **leah** » Fri May 04, 2007 11:26 am

huhm. i will add that to the list, then.

Post by **Arlos** » Fri May 04, 2007 11:46 am

Don't delete it off your hard drive, just tell it to not load into memory when your computer launches. Still useful to launch and scan your machine occasionally, but just don't have it run 24x7.

-Arlos

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Fri May 04, 2007 11:56 am

What Arlos said.

Post by **Martrae** » Fri May 04, 2007 12:21 pm

What anti-virus are you using?

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Fri May 04, 2007 12:43 pm

I think this thread is about tech supporting leah, not complaining about WIndow's Vista like it's your ex.

leah · Post by **leah** » Fri May 04, 2007 1:19 pm

exactly.

martrae, i use the free version of AVG and also have spybot S&D, lavasoft adaware, and ccleaner on hand for occasional cleanups.

Post by **Martrae** » Fri May 04, 2007 3:36 pm

Whew...that's not your problem then.

If you had said Norton or McAfee it would be a different story.

leah · Post by **leah** » Fri May 04, 2007 3:42 pm

it was mcafee in its original state (toshiba packaged it with mcafee) but i got rid of it and installed AVG. ^_^

Post by **Arlos** » Fri May 04, 2007 3:49 pm

Smart girl!

-Arlos

Post by **Martrae** » Fri May 04, 2007 3:57 pm

arlos wrote:Smart girl!

-Arlos