Was just wondering if anyone had any tips for optimising XP for WoW?

I have a clean install of XP and pretty much only will use this PC for WoW, it has a 1gb of RAM but the CPU/video is lacking...

Anything I can do to up my FPS?

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thanks guys.. appreciate the help.

I found when i played wow, that ram was the biggest factor.
I had it running a GF3 ti200 fine, then a GF4 ti4200 fine, then a 6600gt fine.
from 512 to 1gb RAM made the biggest difference.

Otherwise, turn down the pretties, you can't have a s***ty system and expect the pretties with performance.

theres no real optimization with wow to prevent cheaty hacks they make it pretty noobified and un customizable just turn down your gfxs detail and dont run to much s*** at once


also use a simple user interface.

wow is all ram in my experience. i actually found that the 512 ram is the envelope and as soon as you break through that things start to improve alot. i added 133 to 512 and the diffence was massive. i dont think you will have too many problems with 1gb.

I use to run it on 512 and it would chug everywhere, even flying into stuff like tarren mill. 1gb stopped a lot of this and it would only chug in ironforge or orgrimmar. 2gb of matched ram and it didn't chug anywhere. Apart from obviously hardware upgrades the video options has instructions on performance if you mouseover them.

MC and BWL gets a bit chuggy from my vid card (gf4 ti4280) and I have 1.5gb ram, runs fine without mass spam attacks

plug your mouse into the ps2 port and get that ps2 port rate increase thing to increase the rate above that of usb so your clicks register faster

*plays wow*
' click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click '

don't use any interfaces and set the script memory down to like 2mb.

2 Gig here....i cop a little lag in IF but thats expected on Proudmoore

Nice one whoop. Shame WoW != Diablo II or that may have made sense.

And what's the CPU/video card in question?

I've been running it on a 5700 (and more recently a 6800) with a 2700 and it's respectable. There's a few graphic things you can tone down if you don't think you need all that eyecandy.

in diablo 2 you only had to hold down the mouse button to attack

It's a laptop with:

Intel Pentium-M 1600MHz CPU
ATI Radeon 9000 32Mb
1Gb RAM

Native rez is 1024x768. Turns out It runs ok :) I walked around Org before going to bed and it was just the same as my other computer. It might slow down in RAIDs, I'll have to find out today.

I'll probably just kill lots of services in control panel that I don't need and turn detail down if its slow.

Oh okay. My notebook is almost hte same spec (ATI9000, P-M 735). I run it at 800x600 when I use it on the notebook, though that's rare.

Once spells get going though, it slows to a crawl. Turning everything graphical off is a start though :(

go in taskmananer and close every single process that u can. dont worry about closing important ones because windows wont let you. then play with your 1 gig ram.