I have a 3.2Ghz Intel P4, 512Mb RAM, 80Gb IDE 7200rpm HD, GeForce4 Ti 4200 128Mb AGP 8X and Arch with 96xx drivers, and I get cool performance too (private servers). About 24 fps overall, either in battlegrounds, main cities, outdoor or instances at 1024x768@85Hz. I can get up to 20 fps overall in 1280x1024@60Hz.<br>
<br>DON'T waste your money in RAM, unless you're very annoyed at sometimes locking up in main cities or want to put the terrain distance to the max. MMORPGs really benefit from RAM, but that isn't your main problem here.<br>
<br>To get the most speed outta your system, make sure you have a custom X configuration for it. Killing everything (gdm, apache, mysql, etc) desktop-wise and starting a plain X session will greatly improve your performance since you can just run WoW from a terminal and have all the CPU for you (Try that, windows!).<br>
<br>Also, set all the video options to the minimum, remove the shaders (Specular, death effect & full-screen glow), AND set your video to Windowed Mode + Maximized, and choose your DESKTOP resolution at the top-left of the video options window. That's the lowest settings you can get.<br>
<br>And for the love of God and everything that's sacred to you, play on a lower resolution!!!!! that's overkill for your current specs, considering you get -those- FPS :/...<br><br>The first time I ran WoW was in a P3 900Mhz, onboard Intel 82815 32Mb+32Mb expansion AGP slot and 256Mb RAM, no TBC and it was a PAIN, but playable. When I got the GeForce card and put it on.... I was averaging 24-30 fps under Windows at 1024x768.<br>
<br>I also have a laptop, 1.3Ghz AMD Athlon-M, 512Mb RAM and onboard VIA/Unichrome Pro IGP 64Mb (that's a sh** of a graphics card when it comes to Linux) and I can play WoW fine, almost the same speed as my desktop PC but the difference is that the movements are jerky, but if they weren't the speed would be the same. about 15-18 fps on that one (Windows).<br>
<br>If you want to spend money, get a better video card (NVIDIA if you're planning on staying on Linux). Later on you might want to spend in RAM too, maybe 512Mb more. The 70s who told you to get 4Gb are either spoiled kids, or don't know what they're talking about. Yeah, 4Gb is awesome, but not everybody has the money to get it. (At least that's a spec of a "dream machine" for me).<br>
<br>Good luck :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:57 PM, gary sheppard <<a href="mailto:rhyotte@gmail.com">rhyotte@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Soccus <<a href="mailto:wineforum-user@winehq.org">wineforum-user@winehq.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 14245 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2848.905 FPS<br>
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> By the way, I'm playing private WoW Server - About 400-500 max people<br>
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> You say next 512 ram? Maybe this will help, but there is one funny thing.<br>
> Last week I have installed a WoW to my friend on his OLD computer (128 ram,<br>
> older graphic card than mine and about 900mhz processor) His Windows XP is<br>
> running pretty unstable, but his WoW have about 30-40 fps. Rotlf. Game cuts<br>
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> I played on Windows Xp about 1 year earlier. Fps wasn't fantastic but it<br>
> was playable - I guess about 30-50 fps. Of course my WoW is always set on<br>
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</div></div>Well sir, i for one would like to know how this all turns out!<br>
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Good gaming<br>
Gary<br>
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