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lordxephon
10-07-2008, 04:53 AM
2.6GHz P4
1.5GB ram
Radeon ATI 128MB Mobility M10

ive played wow with a p3 1.0 ghz so im used to lag i needed a upgrade bought a laptop(needed one anyway) and i want to play wow on it how would it be playin wow little or no lag? low med high? gimmie details please

thanks
Xlorep DarkHelm
10-07-2008, 07:17 AM
You probably won't have much of a problem, unless you have shared video RAM, which is popular in laptops, and then things might get a little sluggish.
Tunga
10-07-2008, 10:31 AM
The M10 is a Mobility 9600 I think? That would make it the mid-range mobile card from about five years ago. It does have on-board memory and the 9000s series were generally well made.

I think it will run though I can't be sure. You'll be playing on minimum settings and don't expect anything smooth.

Any reason why you "upgraded" to this old chipset? I can't believe anyone sells these any more.
johnnycashed
10-07-2008, 03:25 PM
The M10 is a Mobility 9600 I think? That would make it the mid-range mobile card from about five years ago. It does have on-board memory and the 9000s series were generally well made.

I think it will run though I can't be sure. You'll be playing on minimum settings and don't expect anything smooth.

Any reason why you "upgraded" to this old chipset? I can't believe anyone sells these any more.


My "work" laptop is very similar to the M10 and it runs wow just fine. Like you said minimum settings are a must and i have to dump my garbage about once an hour. If you use a trash collector it will help your performance a great deal.
Tunga
10-07-2008, 04:55 PM
It really depends how you define "very similar" and what the rest of the machine is like. But yes, that's the kind of performance I would expect.
clevins
10-07-2008, 08:00 PM
well, given that I play on a Macbook witha onboard intel 950 with 64m of shared memory... you'll be fine. Everyone says min settings... and that's generally true, but crank spell detail up enough that you can see things like Nightbane's Charred Earth, etc. You feel REALLY silly when you die because of your video settings...

Oh and make sure you have the latest drivers.