A couple of questions

[Lanky]

Yeah, I was hoping it was the graphics card and not the processor. Realistically if I swap over the processor, motherboard and ram....I may as well buy a new graphics card as well, and then I have effectively replaced the whole pc (well the expensive parts anyway)......Ah well, something to save towards. I will probably leave it till next year before I actually upgrade anything, but now I know what I'm up for.

Its not to bad in areas that aren't full of people (since the team is only about level 22 atm, thats most of the places I'm going). I flew into Ogg and everything dropped to about 5 fps......So I will be steering clear of there atm lol

[Ualaa]

You can run the Performance Monitor tool.

And then play warcraft, with five clients open.
Also have any background applications that are typically open, opened.
Or if you play with everything closed, then go that route.

After 10-15 minutes of playing.
Check the performance tool, and see which elements have reached 100% or close to it.
Anything that does, is a bottleneck for your performance.
And upgrading those, would improve you play.

[alcattle]

Yeah, I was hoping it was the graphics card and not the processor. Realistically if I swap over the processor, motherboard and ram....I may as well buy a new graphics card as well, and then I have effectively replaced the whole pc (well the expensive parts anyway)......Ah well, something to save towards. I will probably leave it till next year before I actually upgrade anything, but now I know what I'm up for.

Its not to bad in areas that aren't full of people (since the team is only about level 22 atm, thats most of the places I'm going). I flew into Ogg and everything dropped to about 5 fps......So I will be steering clear of there atm lol

you can try turning down some graphics settings in the game. some of the new effects suck up FPS

[Lanky]

Ualaa, thanks for the tip. I tried that out and the CPU graph was bouncing around a fair bit but its always over 80%ish so I think it has a lot to do with it. Is there an easy Performance counter to check the graphics card?

Alcattle, thanks for the tip. I have already dropped all the graphics settings to low on all 5 clients, then increased the view distance on the main screen (trying to play with the minimum view distance is annoying ) The only thing I can do now to increase the speed would be to drop the resolution I think. To be honest, its playable the way it is at the moment. I'm planing to build myself a new computer for christmas so that should make things a lot smoother

[Ualaa]

I'm told... with any Nvidia card, you can download EVGA Precision and measure the card usage.
Have not tried the tool myself.

And not sure on an equivalent for ATI cards.