04-01-2004, 04:24 AM
An interesting development when I was playing was WoW last night. I had started up the game, loaded up the game like usual, but there a little nagging differenceâ¦my frame rate right from the get go sucked. 6 or 7 frames a second. I was about to exit the game, when something popped up on my system, which tasked me out of WoW. I looked at the window, and tasked back, to find that I was getting 30fps! So I continued to play, and the frame rate never dropped down lower than 17fps. But then I died, ended up back in town, and discovered that my fps were down to 7-9. So, going on a whim, I hit CTL-ESC (Start Button), which pulled me out of WoW, and I just clicked back in. The end result was WoW was back to running at 30fps.
If youâre getting really funky frame rates, try tasking out of WoW and going back in. After talking with Bolty, weâve theorized that doing this will clear the texture memory of the video card, so that everything is nice and fresh. I have yet to try this on my desktop system, to see if that might help that system handle the game better. Hereâs the specs on both my desktop and my laptop.
Desktop System:
Pentium III 600MHz
756MB Memory
Diamond Stealth 550
Windows XP Retail (Pre SP1)
Laptop System:
Pentium M 1.5GHz
512MB Memory
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
Windows 2000 SP4
I have another video card that Iâve been thinking about putting into the desktop system, which is an ELSA Gloria/Synergy 8 ViVo. But I donât quite know what Iâm going to try it out, should this task-swapping thing work out.
IMPORTANT Other Note: I had ALL the detail on my system turned down to the minimum, just to ensure that the game was playable. For me, the detail level is enough at the minimums, since Iâm more worried about other aspects of the game than the level of detail that Iâm playing it in.
If youâre getting really funky frame rates, try tasking out of WoW and going back in. After talking with Bolty, weâve theorized that doing this will clear the texture memory of the video card, so that everything is nice and fresh. I have yet to try this on my desktop system, to see if that might help that system handle the game better. Hereâs the specs on both my desktop and my laptop.
Desktop System:
Pentium III 600MHz
756MB Memory
Diamond Stealth 550
Windows XP Retail (Pre SP1)
Laptop System:
Pentium M 1.5GHz
512MB Memory
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
Windows 2000 SP4
I have another video card that Iâve been thinking about putting into the desktop system, which is an ELSA Gloria/Synergy 8 ViVo. But I donât quite know what Iâm going to try it out, should this task-swapping thing work out.
IMPORTANT Other Note: I had ALL the detail on my system turned down to the minimum, just to ensure that the game was playable. For me, the detail level is enough at the minimums, since Iâm more worried about other aspects of the game than the level of detail that Iâm playing it in.