WoW looks different!

[Tibbs]

Well, with the help of Kalos I upgraded my pc. What a difference! With my old system, to get it to run in native resolution 1440x900 I had to turn almost everything off to get framrates into the 30s. Now I have EVERYTHING turned all the way up and I was shocked when I once got my fps down to 55.2 it normally sits at 59.9 according to Titan... lol

I had to drop off a quest in Kargath that I helped a random guy out with, and so I decided to go the long way around and went through the portal and on to Kargath and then to go over to UC... What a fantastic flight, I normally alt-tab out on long flights, but I was just mesmerised looking at how different it was.

II know WoW is cartoony, but suddenly everything looks so much more alive and atmospheric. My favourite place is Thousand Needles at night, and now it looks even more amazing - I just love the water effects on the hot lake there, just stunning when you fly over it. and I love that the voices now echo depending on where you are. It never did that before. The spell effects just amaze me as well...

There's just so much going on now, it's like I'm playing a new game! Money well spent... lol

Tibbs

[Sturm]

Welcome to the woooorld of tomoooorrrooooow!

[Kalos]

I'm very pleased to hear everything worked out for you, and that the "Recommended Hardware" sticky came in useful. Can't go wrong with that Gigabyte motherboard right now. I hope it serves you well for the next three-four years, or however long you plan to keep it. As long as someone is finding use out of what has been done, it's been worthwhile.

I'd also like to thank Valas Azuviir for constantly putting up with my requests on that sticky, he's the one who stickied it for me and continues to pass on my updated lists as hardware phases in and out of availability and value for money.

Now, just to wait until June 22nd, $266 Quad cores anyone?

[Wintrow]

*drool*

8910

[Tibbs]

I did discover that my case is juuuuust about big enough to fit the mobo in - though I managed to bend the pins on the back of the HDD getting it past the ridiculously large psu cooler I bought... Small screwdrivers and being very very careful saved my hide on that one... lol

I need to get one of those motherboard analyser tools so I can have a go at overclocking. Is there a recommended one?

Tibbs

P.S. Oh, and the parts company sent me 2 processors rather than one, so I now have a moral dilemma - send it back or ebay it to pay for the PSU I had to purchase...?

[Sturm]

loads of programs for that - I used HardwareMonitor for mine - worked fine (but thats a few years back)

[Copes]

does any1 know the command to increase the amount of ram allocated to the game.

i have 2gb corsair ram and would like to allocate 1 gb to the game.

is it in the target or is there a command.
thanks

[Kalos]

There's no such command. Ram is allocated by demand and supply. Provided you give it all it needs, it'll take what is necessary. As long as there is 35% of the ram free you know that Windows isn't holding back and is giving applications all the memory they request.

For true performance boosts, it's the speed of the ram and the memory controller, not the size of the memory allocation that creates the difference. A computer with one gig of DDRII at 800 mhz with 4-4-4-18 timings is going to beat two gig of DDRII at 667 mhz with 5-5-5-18 timings.

[Wintrow]

lol... "it's not the size that counts"

Yes i have the intellect of a 13 year old... why you ask?

[myusernameistaken]

...I once got my fps down to 55.2 it normally sits at 59.9 according to Titan

That'll be the cap IIRC. If you turn off V-synch (stops the fps going over the screen refresh rate and "tearing") you'll probably get it higher, not that you'd want to.

A few months ago I upgraded my old (still pretty decent) system as I couldn't easily upgrade it any more (the missus has it now, still runs WoW pretty nicely) and shelled out for a new system including a lovely widescreen TFT... love it. I love installing all the games that struggled on my old one and wacking the settings up to full :grin:

[IRPander]

I've been playing on a laptop for roughly 6 months now and I know how you felt with the graphics. When i first started playing i was mezmerized by the sights, but now it's become lackluster and i want more. =P