G1S owners who play WoW..

Hey everyone, thanks for stopping by. I know there are quite a few threads about playing WoW on the g1s already but There's just something thats bugging the hell out of me. When I play WoW on my g1s, in azeroth it pretty much never dips below 55fps ( even thats rare to get to 55 more like 58-60fps) even while in Orgrimar.
But, when i stepped in to outland what a difference, suddenly the games stuttering and im sitting around 30-40fps. This is just in hellfire penninsula( havent been anywhere else yet). Does anyone expierience something similar? I dont have settings maxed out. AF is zero, object distance is medium and terrain distance is low.
Hm, well anyway thanks for your input/advise in advance.

 

Perhaps it's a driver problem, or even Vista cause that ain't normal. Perhaps it was a faulty Burning Crusade installation since it looks like it's only when you are in Outlands?

 

Actually, what you're experiencing is normal. Outland has nearly triple the performance hit of Azeroth (larger draw distance, more detail). This is just by design, so don't worry about it.

 

I can agree with previous poster, Outland is more demanding overall. Same happens on my setup.

 

Stuttering on a 8600GT though isn't normal. I've ridden on my flying mount from Shadowmoon Valley to Nagrand and, the FPS was 28-37 but there was barely ever any stuttering.

 

Stutter in WoW is generally caused by something other than the graphics card. Try defragging your hard drive and/or running CCleaner to clear up some of the junk that might be slowing your system down.

I normally get 45-50 FPS in Stormwind on a GeForce 7400, but when the hard drive starts spinning for any reason, it gets choppy and starts to stagger slightly (it's like watching a battle scene from 300 in WoW...slow, then fast, then slow).

 

Yea i've messed around with settings in game and nothing seems to affect the performance, even with everything turned down it was still sluggish. It makes it difficult to play, or i guess i should say difficult to enjoy playing, its as if it is constantly loading.
Seems odd that a 3 yr old p4 3ghz desktop with a ati 700 ran it smoother. meh oh well.

 

If you turned everything down and still had problems I would think that the problem isnt the gpu. I run it on my desktop and I see the fps hit too, but I dont get any stuttering, etc when in Outland, just less frames. Try defragging like a previous poster suggested, maybe even reinstalling WOW, or repairing it if thats possible.

 

it might be some vista driver problems though..
In EQ2 I have to turn off advanced shaders, otherwise i get some pretty bad hitching/suttering...

 

Do you have a cd/dvd rom in the drive? that might be the problem...happened to me when I was playing arena matches.

 

Thanks for your input guys/gals. I'm going to try a re install of WoW and drivers. I was jsut playing on my fiancee's laptop and it has some integrated intel thing. No hitching what so ever its just low fps. No way should this be running smoother (relative lol) than the g1s. Hers also gets about 20fps in outland compared to my 30..Hopefulyl I'll get this thing figured out.

BTW, which drivers do i get from the laptopvideo2go site? I cant really tell which ones are for the 8600gt..

 

i was having the exact same problem, but after i uninstalled vista and reinstalled xp (took hours to fine working xp drivers -_-) it worked perfectly. i guess for me it was all the background ops that was runnin in vista that was eatin all my memory

 

Yea I was considering installing xp, unfortunatly i do not have an xp instal cd It can't be the only option though considering other people don't seem to be having the same problem as me. I defragged, ran cccleaner, and defragged the registry etc etc. such as darkangel_zero and perhaps some others suggested, unfortunatly it didnt help. Not too sure what else it could be though, perhaps some setting in vista? or with the turbo cache? i have no idea honestly. Hopefully someone out there does though

 

i used to get some stutter but that went away once i upgraded the sound drivers from the realtek website

 

quick question.....how does the G1s performe with BF2 and FEAR? im lookin at a T7300 (2.0ghz) with a RAM upgrade to 3GBs....and, are all the G1s screens the same? cheers

 

I don't suppose you recorded which drivers you needed and where you found them, did ya? I'm considering buying a G1S but don't want to deal with the Vista headache. PM me please if you have the records. Thanks!

 

Just a heads up the new nvidia 163.11 drivers fixed alot of my hitching/poor performance issues in EQ2. I would think the modified .inf would be at laptopvideo2go.com if not, I have one that works

 

Alls well now, it was just a driver issue. Tried a few out and finally got the probelm solved. Thanks for the heads up miyabina

 

which driver did you go with?

 

i just downloaded the Vista R.171 HD Audio drivers, they installed, but where they the right ones? What about video drivers, Ive seen a lot of people saying different ones, which one do i use?