Noobie needs help!!!

[GavvyB]

Hi all,
Im new to WoW, after being recommended to play by one or two friends. Basically, I know very little about computers and would like someone to diagnose my problem!!!!

OK.

All is fine 'til I begin to run around with my character. it's slow (not very specific but It more or less says it all)

If my character is running, and I tap the right arrow, to run on a diagonal right, he either doesn't move, or if i push too hard he turns a 90% turn, sometimes more. I've been told to mess around with the settings in the menu accessed by pressing escape, interface and video settings etc, but after spending 10mins messing around I got nowhere!!

It may be my system, it's not a bad laptop, I woulda thought it's be able to cope.......and the graphics are fine. The play is slow and juddery.


Anyone any ideas???

Thanks in advance....I'm dying to get this game going and start levelling up!!

[Kalos]

http://wow.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=402032

Read this, and form a reply based upon it's guidance

[GavvyB]

Kalos, thanks for your reply, but all due respect, I posted my new thread because I needed a 'no jargon' answer, (if of course this is possible),

I dont really want to scroll through pages of irrelevant content to only find something which doesnt really relate to the answer that I need.

Thanks anyway, but do you, or anybody else, have an immediate solution to my problem?? (bearing in mind that if there is no immediate solution to my problem, this will be accepted?!!!)

Thanks
Gavvy

[Kalos]

That was not "Pages of content" It was one post. A post I ask and expect all users to read. It makes things easier and faster for everyone. I was hoping you'd be bothered to read it before you even posted once, let alone read it after asking, as it would have told you some of the following things:

Generic thread titles are a pain, use them as a discription of your problem. things like "please help" are obvious and inherantly unnecessary.

The second point being to post detailed system specifications, as necessary for most problems, including yours. I can't actually help you at all without information like that.

They are the basic rules of this forum, knowledge and utilisation is expected of everyone. Compliance is not only expected, it's useful too, hence why I pointed them out and expected a reaction, rather than an excuse not to bother. If you can't be bothered to read the forum rules, why should I be bothered to help you? Effort works two ways, and more often than not you'll ind that if you put effort in, someone else will too.

I can't spit out some generic slapstip answer to your problem without details. The sticky asked you for them (If you had taken the time to read something labled "Read This First" because it was obviously put there to help new users, not because someone got bored one day)

Call me unfriendly, but I don't usually have to work this hard to get people to take the advice in there onboard.

[GavvyB]

Moderator. The most unfriendly and negative moderator ive ever come across.

Does a moderator not moderate??? 'a person who presides over a panel discussion'?? Do they have to HELP everyone do they have to get involved??

NO. they dont. Fair enough, I may not have been specific, but I came in here looking for help. I didnt find it with the first reply I got, so I thanked you (the moderator) and asked for (possibly) help from another source. Did I get this? No. I beleive I got a reply back from the moderator at 'that time of the month', or thats what it felt like at least!


'Generic thread titles are a pain'- for YOU, moderator, possibly, but do you have to get involved?? NO!!!!!!!! Leave it to someone else. If they can give me a jargon free answer, which I made clear was what I was after, fantastic. If not, then why is it your problem????

I will end with a quote (which is the whole of my last post)

Kalos, thanks for your reply, but all due respect, I posted my new thread because I needed a 'no jargon' answer, (if of course this is possible),

I dont really want to scroll through pages of irrelevant content to only find something which doesnt really relate to the answer that I need.

Thanks anyway, but do you, or anybody else, have an immediate solution to my problem?? (bearing in mind that if there is no immediate solution to my problem, this will be accepted?!!!)

Thanks
Gavvy

any animosity towards you, the moderator? NO
any need for a harsh reply, from the moderator? NO

I accepted what you had said and said thanks, but asked for help elswhere(other users), because after reading the first PAGE of the link you had posted (not line, or mere paragraph) I was bored and had seen mere bickering between immature members on the board.

Thanks for your time, 'moderator', but I will not be using your board again.

[Tunga]

Thanks anyway, but do you, or anybody else, have an immediate solution to my problem?? (bearing in mind that if there is no immediate solution to my problem, this will be accepted?!!!)
Here's your simple answer:
No user can help you since you haven't provided full system specs for your computer.

If you provide these there are many people here who can help you with your problem, including myself and Kalos. I'd love to give you a better answer than this but it's not possible. It's like asking if your car can drive at 200MPH without telling us what car you have.

And you may notice that I'm a moderator too. But actually, I visit the Tech Forum to help people, just like Kalos does. We can and will help you, and so will others, but it's a two way thing :) .

[Kalos]

I'm sad to hear that you are upset.

There is no immediate answer. At least, not one I can create and form, without having some system specifications like what your laptop actually is. I can't recommend courses of action in regard to the performance of your system without knowing what parts make it.

Oh, and dispite your words to the contrary, I do have to get involved. That's what a moderator does. Helps ease discussions and points users in the right direction. If I see a breach of rules, I point it out. If I ask for something, it is a reason. It's not someone else's job, it is actually my appointed job to do that. I'd suggest you get up from your keyboard and take a walk, and do not post rants like that again, I really don't want to have to take actions.

[memetootoo]

GavvyB I'm sorry if this sounds harsh but I feel as if it has to be said. Kalos may be a moderator and in your mind a moderator should not be getting involved but if you were here for an extended amount of time you would know that kalos is one of the most knowledgeable and helpful members, only recently promoted to the status of moderator. The moderators here don't just go about banning people, or deleting threads. They are much apart of the community as you and me.

He did not ask you to read a whole thread, and even so the thread he linked was only 2 pages. He only asked that you provide the information needed in order for him to help you. Without this info. I don't think anyone can provide any help without being able to read your mind.

He may not obligated to help you as a member of the forums, but as a moderator in many ways has to get involved. And your attitude towards someone trying to help you, quite frankly is childish and ungrateful.

[montarg]

have to side with gavyb here, for us that are new its hard for us to understand a lot of what is going on.....it is a very big forum, he came in looking for help, and was turned away quite rudely, i think if you want more people to get involved in this forum, you should probably have a better approach, and dont get all up tight about this, its not a dig at you, but a way of saying things could be changed for the better. And i know im new and you probably wont take much notice, but thats who im talking for here....the new people.

[snowieken]

have to side with gavyb here, for us that are new its hard for us to understand a lot of what is going on.....it is a very big forum, he came in looking for help, and was turned away quite rudely, i think if you want more people to get involved in this forum, you should probably have a better approach, and dont get all up tight about this, its not a dig at you, but a way of saying things could be changed for the better. And i know im new and you probably wont take much notice, but thats who im talking for here....the new people.Kalos might have come across as unfriendly, and he even acknowledges that himself, but it is tiring to try and offer help if the person asking for it doesn't even bother to follow a simple guideline. The first sentence in the sticky (dare I say again, the sticky with the title "read before posting") says:These are a few guide lines regarding making and creating threads on this forum which we would request that you follow in order to save time.Judging from Gavvy's post, he didn't even read that first sentence, since he still seemed to think it was a generic help thread, rather than guidelines to post. "Bah, wall of text, I need a solution to my problem now!" Bottom line is that he came in here asking for our time, while he couldn't even be bothered to read the thread Kalos friendly requested him to read, in order to help him.

With all due respect, then it's hard to stay friendly sometimes.

[HolyDemon]

Here is my opinion.

I agree that these forums are really huge, lots of subforums, but that isn't really the point here. He already found his way to Technical Support and he didn't even bother looking at any of the stickies as far as I can tell, that's not being overwhelmed by how large the forum is, that's being lazy. If you have a problem and you want people to help you with it, try to put some effort in it as well, you can't expect everyone to help you when you just sit back and wait.

Feel free to disagree with the above, it is my opinion and all I will add to this thread.

(Sorry if I went off-topic)