Re: World of Warcraft Install

On 1 Jan 2006 08:18:18 -0800, alcarm1964@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> My son installed the game but the video is kind of jerky at times
> (especially when the character is "outside" if that means anything).
> Anyway, via the troubleshooting guide, I made sure I had updated
> drivers, etc. but it didn't solve anything. I have a HP Pavillion 524w
> AMD 1.73GHz w/ 256 RAM. I was thinking I'd upgrade to 512, but I also
> see I have only a 32MB video card. The book states that the minimum,
> but "recommends" 64. So, would an upgraded video solve this problem, or
> is the memory upgrade also a necessity. I'll do both if necessary, but
> just want to make sure I'll solve this problem for good. Thanks!

I would say both, but if you have to pick only one of those go with the RAM
first. The jerky video is most likely being caused when your son moves
around the world and the game having to load textures and other graphics
objects from the page file on your hard drive since you have so little RAM.
The hard drive is a lot slower than RAM, so you experience hardware lag.

But the graphics card should be upgraded as well. I would say a minimum of
1GB of RAM, but you might as well max that motherboard out. RAM is cheap
these days and the performance gain you will see will be well worth it.

As for the graphics card, I would suggest going with AGP (PCI-e if your
motherboard has that slot for it) and 256MB of RAM on it. More money spent
now equals better game performance and a longer time in between upgrading
again. :-)

Dave
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