Warcraft help

spyderxombie · #1 January 29th, 2007, 10:11 PM

hey i have a dell dimension 4300s and i play WoW and War3...in WoW when im outside my game is all choppy and its hard 2 keep my directions good i cant grind on quest...i can only do instances they seem 2 work fine and inside buildings as well...i thought maybe my computer is 2 slow but like i said i play Warcraft 3 and im having the same choppyness problem when i try 2 play
here are some of my system specs

Pentium(R) 4 1.40 GHz
512MB ram

thnx

Aries7 · #2 January 29th, 2007, 10:16 PM

i know i used to play War3 on a system with comprable stats to that. It would play fine for a while, and they start getting choppy and virtually inplayable. I generally fixed this by closing the game, and restarting the comp.

WoW is likely goind to be choppy no matter what, with all the internet type calculations it has to do at the same time as processing the graphics and what not.

What kind of video card do you have (that could also be the issue)

spyderxombie · #3 January 29th, 2007, 11:35 PM

restarting never helps...my vid card is 16MB ATI Rage 128 ultra

Aries7 · #4 January 29th, 2007, 11:45 PM

video card is probably the issue then.

War3's recommended sys req call for a 32mb card, and WoW's minimum sys req calls for 32mb

Demonstroke · #5 January 30th, 2007, 02:39 AM

yup. I'm surprised u can play it at all.

cHiNgY1788 · #6 January 30th, 2007, 02:53 AM

well sometiems games can run on hald the vid memory requried
i ran Final Fantasy 8 on my old 566Celeron with 4MB video memory (requires 8mb)

RRBKTechMan · #7 January 30th, 2007, 06:43 PM

i would defenitally upgrade the video card. I might also get another 512 chip of ram depending on whatever else your comp runs at the same time as WoW. I would suggest an agp slot video card if you have a agp slot. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814164056
and if you have a pci slot. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814139144

Sir Yuck · #8 January 30th, 2007, 07:29 PM

I'm suprised you can run those on your comp, I use a pentium 4 sometimes and it won't run delta force land warrior demo hardly. thats why I use my pentium three, it runs stuff better then a P4.

Gunslinger · #9 January 31st, 2007, 04:22 AM

Your video card is more than likely the problem - did you make sure all of your settings are turned all the way down on WoW? Set everything to the lowest possible setting, if that still doesn't help at all, new video card IMO.