toddneal Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 Okay, I've been asking on the part of the site about drivers, but maybe there are some tricks or tweaks someone can recommend for WOW. So far I have gotten Great Advice. I think I have solved many of my issues. Here is my system detail. Dell Latitude D800 1.4Ghz Pentium M 1.5GB PC2100 RAM NVidia Quadro FX go 700 - 128MB WinXP Pro SP2 1280x800 WXGA I downloaded and installed the recommended driver 84.25 and the inf. I went into the performance and quality settings through the windows display properties and made a few adjustments. The card is running great with one exception - again a WOW issue and a bit confusing. Not sure if this a card thing or a just a quirky WOW thing. When I am out running through low traffic areas like the jungles/forests/deserts/etc, my FPS rate is 15-25 fps, latency is betwen 70-120ms. When I go into highly populated areas like cities and auction houses or I am flying, I should experience higher latency, which I do - 150-230ms, and lower framerates. But that is the confusing thing - I am getting higher frame rates when I am in the cities and flying - usually 35-75fps depending. I'm not complaining because the rate is great and I don't lag in high traffic areas, but in the lower traffic areas gameplay is just slightly choppy, but not laggy. I recall reading somewhere that some of the video settings adjust to help/prevent the lag when in the cities - high traffic areas. My question is why isn't this in effect continuously and is there a way to adjust my card settings to improve the lower traffic area frame rates? Here is the list of my current settings from the performance and quality settings dialogue. Maybe you can advise me on what if anything I need to adjust. antialiasing application-controlled anisotropic filtering application-controlled color profile not available vertical sync application-controlled confirmant texture clamp on extension limit off hardware acceleration single display mode triple buffering on disables enhanced CPU instructions off unified back/depth buffer on maximize texture memory on early z-test on buffer flipping mode auto select antialiasing line gamma off antialiasing full screen gamma off texture color depth use desktop color depth enable stereo off force stereo shuttering off stereo display mode use shutter glasses swap eyes off enable overlay off exported pixel types color indexed overlays (8bpp) Thanks Again for all the help. T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabrice Roux Posted September 13, 2006 Report Share Posted September 13, 2006 Don't post the same thing in 2 threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddneal Posted September 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2006 Don't post the same thing in 2 threads. Sorry. Just thought it would help to look for advice from a different forum that is focuesed on gaming. T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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