Slow load times

[bodybagz]

When i go to a major city i dont have choppy lag or anything usually sometimes a little, but the images of people take forever to load. I will see their shadow running around on the ground but i can not see them. If im running down the road i will sometimes pass people in my party and not even see them because their image model didn't load fast enough. When im running along terain i can actually see most of it loading slowly n it looks really dumb, like grass loading going across the screen, idk hard to explain.

Well thats my problem, what should i upgrade on my computer to get rid of this issue. I have a 2.0-2.4ghz AMD processor i forgot wut it is, pretty sure its more towards 2.4. My video card is a 256mb geforce 6800. For RAM i have 1gb.

[Kalos]

It really matters what kind of AMD processor it is. Athlon 64's for instace have much superior memory controllers, critical for performance in programs with high ram intensity like WoW. Athlon XPs on the other hand are inferior in thier design, using an old fashioned motherboard-and-North-Bridge style memory controller which holds a great deal more latency.

Also, is this Ram DDR1 or DDR2? DDR2 has naturally higher latencies usually, and thus takes longer to respond and load data.

Basic solution is: If you have an Athlon XP/Duron/Semperon; whole new computer is in order, the weakness and age of those components cannot be overcame if smooth and near flawless memory operation is necessary. If there is an good basis, an Athlon 64 or Athlon 64 X2, then a simple replacement of the ram with higher quality sticks with a larger allocation should do the trick, the standard Kingston Ram 1gigx2 layout should do fine.

[bodybagz]

It is a AMd Athlon 64 3400+ i believe...and the RAM is DDR2

[Kalos]

Purchase and replace your old ram sticks with: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134125 Do not attempt to mix your old ram and new ram together.

[Azmodious]

we don't know if his board supports pc6400 though. on a side note, i'm still running an athlon xp 2800 2 ghz, 1gb corsair xms ddr400, and a 6600gt 128mb agp8x and i'm running very smoothly. it might be something else in the background eating up the processor such as spyware or maybe if your antivirus is set to scan at a certain time.

[Kalos]

we don't know if his board supports pc6400 though. on a side note, i'm still running an athlon xp 2800 2 ghz, 1gb corsair xms ddr400, and a 6600gt 128mb agp8x and i'm running very smoothly. it might be something else in the background eating up the processor such as spyware or maybe if your antivirus is set to scan at a certain time.
You are right to point out it is an assumption. However it will not be incompatible no matter which AM2 motherboard he has, basic designed compatibility since launch last year. AM2 natively supports pc6400. When the ram is placed into a motherboard that cannot support it's full speed, it'll simply run at a lower frequency but at a better latency. It is agiven his board is AM2, and it is in the standard release specifications announced upon lauch to be able to take 800mhz ram.

[Ithilkir]

For players loading keep in mind that this can be slowed down by your connection as it has to query the servers to get the x,y and z co-ordinates of the player, what they're wearing and what body appearance they have so it can display them

[bodybagz]

Na its not spyware or the anti-virus scan...i run spyware and adware sweepers regularly. That site you linked Kalos, is that 2 1gb RAM sticks for $135 if so thats not bad.

Also, i went and looked when i got home yesterday and its a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2.1ghz if that makes any more of a difference.

[Kalos]

That is. Two sticks, one gig each, from a high quality and reputable line and company. It is good quality, not the OEM junk that you find off the back of a lorry or in most Dell machines. For the price, near unbeatable.

In a few months, you could buy a K10 and put that into your AM2 motherboard for future gains. It is the processor that is replacing the four year old Athlon 64 architecture, but it is unavailable as of yet and the performance is unknown. However, it'll undoubtably do better than the bottom grade Athlon 64. Athlon 64 processors scale in between 2800+ and 6000+ single and dual core editions. Perhpas if things get much cheaper, you'll be able to buy a dual core processor for less than $100 that'll provide a great boost to performance.

[krayzie]

I have a 2.0-2.4ghz AMD processor i forgot wut it is, pretty sure its more towards 2.4. My video card is a 256mb geforce 6800. For RAM i have 1gb.

Hold up guys... maybe its more simple than upgrading hardware. OP, when was the last time you upgraded your graphics drivers? try that. Your specs far out weigh mine and mine runs fine. I also have a AMd Athlon 64 3400+, but only 768mb RAM and only onboard graphics and mine runs sweet! check the requirements on the box coz your well above that!

It screams to me of graphics card drivers. Or also maybe fiddle with the video options in game (ie, turn anitaliasing off, change res settings etc...)

[Nnyan]

Try running WoW at 800x600 with all eye candy turned off. Kill all background processes and un-needed services, don't run anything but WoW and see if that helps. When WoW is running bring up task mang. and see if anything else is eating up CPU.

My browsing PC (was my old gaming PC) only have 1GB DDR ram, XP 3200+ barton, 256mb Radeon 9700pro and for the most part this played fine on lower settings. I would occasionally have a delay with the character models but nothing like you're saying.