Ederaachamh
06-11-2007, 09:47 PM
Ok, I have been running WoW fine on my mid-level machine, absolutely no performance problems or glitches, but many people (usually with higher specs) have been running into problems. I thought we should share our specs and driver versions to see if they help.
I'm running
AMD X2 64 3600+
Geforce 7600GT (manufacturer: gigabyte)
2gb ram
Winxp sp2
1600x1200 resolution (started the game in 1024x768, seemed fine too)
official nvidia Geforce 7 series drivers 93.71
directx 9c with all patches up to dec 2006 (in dxdiag it says 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904))
I am not getting weird colors or extremely small text. For weird colors, see if you aren't running 32bit color on the desktop. For small text, see if you aren't running "normal" font size in the Display Properties->appearance tab. At high resolutions, on my screen it seems to scale everything, so actually all the widgets and text are really big, in proportions to how it would be on a 1024x768 screen. That's actually not ideal, cause it defeats the purpose of higher resolution, but right now I'm settling for being able to play the game :P
Some people have been reporting crashes or extremely slow performance with 8800 series cards. Mathilde solved her problem by completely uninstalling the drivers and installing the previous version and reinstalling directx. However I don't know the details of which driver version works. All I know is, such cards should definitely not run slowly :P
Make sure you get the latest directx, the version 9c doesnt mean anything because there have been many patches since. If your directx installation files dont have tons of extra cab files with Dec2006 (or later) in the name, then you may not have the latest.
Post your problems and specs and we'll do a comparison. Maybe there's a common problem.
I'm running
AMD X2 64 3600+
Geforce 7600GT (manufacturer: gigabyte)
2gb ram
Winxp sp2
1600x1200 resolution (started the game in 1024x768, seemed fine too)
official nvidia Geforce 7 series drivers 93.71
directx 9c with all patches up to dec 2006 (in dxdiag it says 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904))
I am not getting weird colors or extremely small text. For weird colors, see if you aren't running 32bit color on the desktop. For small text, see if you aren't running "normal" font size in the Display Properties->appearance tab. At high resolutions, on my screen it seems to scale everything, so actually all the widgets and text are really big, in proportions to how it would be on a 1024x768 screen. That's actually not ideal, cause it defeats the purpose of higher resolution, but right now I'm settling for being able to play the game :P
Some people have been reporting crashes or extremely slow performance with 8800 series cards. Mathilde solved her problem by completely uninstalling the drivers and installing the previous version and reinstalling directx. However I don't know the details of which driver version works. All I know is, such cards should definitely not run slowly :P
Make sure you get the latest directx, the version 9c doesnt mean anything because there have been many patches since. If your directx installation files dont have tons of extra cab files with Dec2006 (or later) in the name, then you may not have the latest.
Post your problems and specs and we'll do a comparison. Maybe there's a common problem.