Problems with older computers?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

ARe you running a software firewall by chance?

[Vyndree]

When "testing the waters", I used some old laptops that had built in graphics cards and barely any RAM.

Somehow I managed to get to level 40 like this before purchasing actual decent hardware. I could never enter major cities with all of my shaman, as I would constantly have to take two steps and wait, take two steps and wait, take two steps and wait in order for my laptop chars to catch up.

My RFK video in the movie forum shows how I fared with sh*tty laptops, 1 old PC with OK specs, and 2 higher end PCs. Compare to say, my ZF video or PvP video and you can see that my lightning bolt casting is much better synchronized. Running damage meters, my higher end computers were pulling almost twice the sustained dps as the sh*tty laptops.

[Skuggomann]

I runn 4 wows on 1 normal PC

Setupp:

AMD 4200+
2GB RAM (it was 1GB but tahts way to little :S)
Normal HD
GeForce 7600 GT


I have noo lag problems, not even in Shatarath XD

[Gallo]

ARe you running a software firewall by chance?

I only run a software firewall on my main rig (ZoneAlarm). The others I do not.

Edit: Actually, Windows Firewall is set to On, for all of my 3 problem computers... think that I should disable that?

[Wilbur]

Do you have a hardware firewall on your network?

[Zutok]

Video cards w/ low VRAM, or those that are integrated and share PC RAM (slow as hell)... you should get some performance increase settings on the "16 bit color 16 bit depth with 1x multisampling". Renderings take up less memory using this method, making for faster reads/writes... especially if your card shares it's memory w/ the PCs RAM. I used to use my wife's laptop as one of my "boxes", and it had an IGP (integrated graphics processor) that used it's DDR for VRAM. Switching to this setting upped my average fps from 9-12 to 18-24. You may notice some slight color shifting (since it's rendering in less colors); however, if it's not your "main" box (which you look at 70%+ of the time)... does it really matter?

[Gallo]

Do you have a hardware firewall on your network?

I do. So, software firewall isnt TOTALLY necessary. I think I'll keep it on my main rig though

[Ughmahedhurtz]

ARe you running a software firewall by chance?

I only run a software firewall on my main rig (ZoneAlarm). The others I do not.

Edit: Actually, Windows Firewall is set to On, for all of my 3 problem computers... think that I should disable that?

The ONLY reason I mention this is that software firewalls require CPU and system resources to process network data. If your WoW is running on old/low-spec hardware, it may be sucking up so many resources that software firewalls will start choking and strangle your WoW data pipeline, which will probably exhibit itself as lag, getting out of sync (NPCs/objects missing, invisible mobs, etc.) or disconnects.

I had this problem on one box but fixed it completely by setting the WOW.EXE process priority to LOW via ProcessLasso. Try this and see what you get. I doubt it'll solve everything but it may just make things bearable.