how's the lag in northrend?
For most of you, did it get better or worse from outland? I'm kinda worried, I don't really have good enough hardware to be boxing, though it's playable at least. Sometimes in the Outlands though my FPS will drop to about 10, which sucks, but I can usually live with or avoid it for a while. am I just going to die in NR? I've heard Dalaran is impossible even for people with much better hardware than I have, but that can be worked around. don't need to spend much time in a major city anyway. If it's going to be terrible just questing though, I may not bother buying WotLK and just level a few more teams to 70 until I can upgrade my hardware significantly.
Thoughts?
RE: how's the lag in northrend?
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Originally Posted by 'Nicbennett',index.php?page=Thread&postID=163924#p ost163924
For most of you, did it get better or worse from outland? I'm kinda worried, I don't really have good enough hardware to be boxing, though it's playable at least. Sometimes in the Outlands though my FPS will drop to about 10, which sucks, but I can usually live with or avoid it for a while. am I just going to die in NR? I've heard Dalaran is impossible even for people with much better hardware than I have, but that can be worked around. don't need to spend much time in a major city anyway. If it's going to be terrible just questing though, I may not bother buying WotLK and just level a few more teams to 70 until I can upgrade my hardware significantly.
Thoughts?
I hardware mostly box, but I do run two instances of Wow on one machine, but its a quad core 8GB Vista-64 machine, so it handles Northend very well, even Dalaran. However, I finally had to retire my oldest machine, an early XP machine that I had to add memory before I could even get it to run wow. It couldn't even handle a single toon in Dalaran, running in slideshow mode, and /follow was impossible. However, that old macihne did pretty well in most of Northend.
Plan on Northend using about 50% more memory than Outland, and you should be OK, except for Dalaran. If you're using XP, you'll likely need 4MB memory, even though XP won't use it all, and a really good video card. If you're running five toons, and using Vista, I'd recommend V-64, and no less than 8MB memory.
I have mixed feelings about the Lich King expansion. I find it mostly very nice eye candy, but find it boring to play. I mix in some outland leveling with some of my other groups, and find that I can slowly work my way though Northend in two to three hour sessions that way. I feel that I MUST play some characters in the latest expansion, as level 80 characters are MUCH stronger than level 70 toons, but I'm sure in no hurry to reach 80. I have discovered that leveling up to level 72+ is possible in outland as long as you have the Lich King expansnion installed, although it is somewhat slower than doing it in Northend, and of course you miss the Northend starter gear doing it that way.
RE: RE: how's the lag in northrend?
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Originally Posted by 'Spook',index.php?page=Thread&postID=164037#post16 4037
Plan on Northend using about 50% more memory than Outland, and you should be OK, except for Dalaran. If you're using XP, you'll likely need 4MB memory, even though XP won't use it all, and a really good video card. If you're running five toons, and using Vista, I'd recommend V-64, and no less than 8MB memory.
I suspected that to be true, and it makes me really sad. My motherboard only supoorts 2gb of RAM, so it would basically involve building a new computer to upgrade it. I guess I'll just make the most of my RaF by leveling a few more teams to 60 or 70 for a couple months until I can gather some cash for an upgrade, or better yet, go hardware. Thanks for the input though everyone.
