playing WoW on my laptop

ragingmen · Nov 22, 2004, 03:47 AM

First of all, i have a presario 2170,
athlon xp-m 2200+,
512 ram
40gb 4200rpm
ATI Radeon 320M 64MB shared
omega 3.6

During the World of Warcraft beta, my average fps was at a meer 10fps, inside i would get 25+ fps, but as soon as the ppl on my screen increases, my game pauses and lags for about 5-10 seconds. (During the final day of beta).

I was wondering if there's anything i could do to my laptop that would make the game playable, which to me is just to have my average fps up and the game running smoothly.

any suggestions would be great.

**dj_stick** · Nov 22, 2004, 11:13 AM

i think the GPU is your problem there

ragingmen · Nov 23, 2004, 01:32 AM

would upgrading the mem to 1gig help? or anything i can upgrade on ths laptop to make it playable?

Myton · Nov 23, 2004, 10:05 AM

I played WoW too on my portable CL 56 with ATI 9700 Mobility. My problems was that the game kept crashing on me if i played it in full screen. When i turned it down to windowd mode everything worked better. But in Open Beta version ur problem was that there where too many players online at same time and everyone got constant 5-10 min laggs. It will be better when game comes out and there will be a better server stability.

Still trying to find out what crashes my computer tho... I crash on Generals aswell. "serius error has occured" Dunno why. Bin working to solve the problem for a long time.

CL56
Centrino 1,7
512 RAM
ATI Mobility 9700

MJOLNIR · Nov 28, 2004, 06:49 AM

I'm not sure about WoW, but Generals used to crash for me, turns out if you check their site the mobility radeon series isn't supported. However I haven't had the problem since I uninstalled Zero Hour.

highkick · Dec 12, 2004, 07:27 PM

I will be getting WOW for Christmas. I have a 1.7 ghz Banias laptop with 1 Gb of Ram. I want to play this game on my laptop.

Now that the retail version is finally out and server issues may have improved, can anyone update us on the ability of their laptop to play World of Warcraft??

Thanks in advance

No_Style · Dec 13, 2004, 02:33 AM

Yeah it's the GPU, buddy. WoW needs something much more substantial than that.

Here are some tips though:

You can try dedicating more memory to the video processor by entering your BIOS and setting it to 128 MB.

Make sure you have the latest drivers installed.

Shift all the Direct3D quality settings to High Performance in the Display Properties/ATI Control Panel.

Synth · Dec 16, 2004, 03:10 PM

I have almost the same system as you do same video, ram everything. Mine is an HP though. Anyway, I play WoW as well and I dont have any major lag problems. Every once in a while I will get some spikes no worse than Everquest though and I of course had to download the new drivers to play which in turn makes it so I cant watch DVD's on my system

I am going to turn up my video ram in the bios and see if that helps with the lag at all.

I know there was a thread at one point which explained how to fix the DVD issue can anyone point me in the right direction please?

TerraN · Dec 30, 2004, 03:05 PM

will i be able to play WoW on an Athlon xp 3000+ 512ram and a GeForce Go 420 32MB graphics card ?!

Colcan · Jan 7, 2006, 01:02 PM

I play WoW fine on my Geforce 420 go 32mb. My laptop's a Toshiba Dynabook P4 2.8 512mb ram.

Nov 22, 2004, 03:47 AM	#1
ragingmen DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	playing WoW on my laptop First of all, i have a presario 2170, athlon xp-m 2200+, 512 ram 40gb 4200rpm ATI Radeon 320M 64MB shared omega 3.6 During the World of Warcraft beta, my average fps was at a meer 10fps, inside i would get 25+ fps, but as soon as the ppl on my screen increases, my game pauses and lags for about 5-10 seconds. (During the final day of beta). I was wondering if there's anything i could do to my laptop that would make the game playable, which to me is just to have my average fps up and the game running smoothly. any suggestions would be great.

Dec 12, 2004, 07:27 PM	#6
highkick DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 74 Rep Power: 0	I will be getting WOW for Christmas. I have a 1.7 ghz Banias laptop with 1 Gb of Ram. I want to play this game on my laptop. Now that the retail version is finally out and server issues may have improved, can anyone update us on the ability of their laptop to play World of Warcraft?? Thanks in advance __________________ ATI 9600 Pro (Retail BBA)

Dec 13, 2004, 02:33 AM	#7
No_Style Styleless Wonder Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 6,034 Rep Power: 0	Yeah it's the GPU, buddy. WoW needs something much more substantial than that. Here are some tips though: You can try dedicating more memory to the video processor by entering your BIOS and setting it to 128 MB. Make sure you have the latest drivers installed. Shift all the Direct3D quality settings to High Performance in the Display Properties/ATI Control Panel. __________________ "The Best Style Is No Style" Specifications Here

Nov 23, 2004, 01:32 AM	Thread Starter #3
ragingmen DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	would upgrading the mem to 1gig help? or anything i can upgrade on ths laptop to make it playable?

Nov 23, 2004, 10:05 AM	#4
Myton DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	I played WoW too on my portable CL 56 with ATI 9700 Mobility. My problems was that the game kept crashing on me if i played it in full screen. When i turned it down to windowd mode everything worked better. But in Open Beta version ur problem was that there where too many players online at same time and everyone got constant 5-10 min laggs. It will be better when game comes out and there will be a better server stability. Still trying to find out what crashes my computer tho... I crash on Generals aswell. "serius error has occured" Dunno why. Bin working to solve the problem for a long time. CL56 Centrino 1,7 512 RAM ATI Mobility 9700

Nov 28, 2004, 06:49 AM	#5
MJOLNIR DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	I'm not sure about WoW, but Generals used to crash for me, turns out if you check their site the mobility radeon series isn't supported. However I haven't had the problem since I uninstalled Zero Hour.

Dec 16, 2004, 03:10 PM	#8
Synth DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	I have almost the same system as you do same video, ram everything. Mine is an HP though. Anyway, I play WoW as well and I dont have any major lag problems. Every once in a while I will get some spikes no worse than Everquest though and I of course had to download the new drivers to play which in turn makes it so I cant watch DVD's on my system I am going to turn up my video ram in the bios and see if that helps with the lag at all. I know there was a thread at one point which explained how to fix the DVD issue can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Dec 30, 2004, 03:05 PM	#9
TerraN DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	will i be able to play WoW on an Athlon xp 3000+ 512ram and a GeForce Go 420 32MB graphics card ?!

Jan 7, 2006, 01:02 PM	#10
Colcan DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	I play WoW fine on my Geforce 420 go 32mb. My laptop's a Toshiba Dynabook P4 2.8 512mb ram.