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    WoW Freezing ...

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by ragingazn628, Feb 25, 2011.

  1. ragingazn628

    ragingazn628 Notebook Consultant

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    After about 2 hours of playing WoW freezes constantly and I have to restart. This is on STOCK settings and 266.58 .. I'm thinking I need to go back to 260.99 ... any recommendations?
     
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    Is there anything else in common besides the 2 hour mark? (same area, same mission/raid/etc)

    If not try reverting to the older driver and see if that solves your problem if not there might be something else going on.
     
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    ragingazn628 Notebook Consultant

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    I heard that 260.99 was a lot more stable than 266.58 so I'll start there I guess... Also the CPU is overclicked at 166mhz and 100/30 using TS. If the game doesn't freeze it will get stuttering in graphics. Goes from 60FPS to 10FPS then back up again. Vsync is on. It's worse if Vsync is off.
     
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    A lot of us have dealt with the freezing issue by downclocking the shader core on the GT 335M. As for issues with 266.58, there were oddities that I noticed (i.e. NV control panel missing many of the menu options). I've been running 260.99 without issues, along with the shader core clocked down.

    I know it doesn't sound like a great way to fix the issue. If your goal is stability, I would start there, in conjunction with downgrading your driver.

    The WoW community of M11x users should band together with Blizzard, Nvidia, and AW, to try and come up with a solution. Gamers like myself who play 12 year old titles like EverQuest 1 are also experiencing issues, but we don't have a playerbase with the same setup in numbers that WoW does, and our voices just won't be heard. Clearly this problem is not game/engine specific.
     
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