Found the limits of my rig - BG's

[grimfandang0]

well to start off this is what I have to work with
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.2GHz X2
2047 MB Ram (DDR 800)
Geforce 8600 256 Mb DDR3 Video Card

Im running 5 toons somewhat smoothly, Major cities lag me up though and today I found my system crashes in Battle grounds.

Im wondering if I should put another system together and box 3 on one pc and 2 on another, any suggestions?

[Knytestorme]

2Gb more ram and a better video card, like an 8800 GTS, would be my recommendation if you don't want to go through the hassle of another box.

[grimfandang0]

well the one factor that I didn't count on was the culprit, I had Wow in 5 sepperate folders on a 2nd HD, transfered all 5 folders to the C drive, fixed my keyclone commands, and poof, performance as smooth as butter. Ran the 2nd HD through some tests and it failed some Read/write tests, sending it back tomorrow.

[unit187]

man you really should buy 2 more gb ram. Video card is decent (8800 gtx would be better but WoW isnt the game which needs powerful video card) so it is good enough. I dont know which BG you have run but I suppose it wasnt AV.

I play on one PC (2.4 ghz duo core, 4 gb ram, 8800 gtx 768 mb) and I lag a little at AB/EotS if my computer is being ran for a long time and many-many different programs were used but otherwise perfect. AV is perfect too, it lags a little if I fight in middle and like 60 ppl around. So at least for alterac you'll have to upgrade your ram.

[grimfandang0]

man you really should buy 2 more gb ram. So at least for alterac you'll have to upgrade your ram.

Are you running a 64 bit version of XP or Vista, becuase 32 bit of either only recognizes up to 3 gigs of ram. and as far as performance, once i put it all back on the C: drive I have yet to lag BG's or towns.

[KSboxers]

Glad to see you got everything working properly. Just wanted to say hi on the forums now that i created an account here.

[Ellay]

Welcome

and glad your rig is running smooth now ^^

[unit187]

man you really should buy 2 more gb ram. So at least for alterac you'll have to upgrade your ram.

Are you running a 64 bit version of XP or Vista, becuase 32 bit of either only recognizes up to 3 gigs of ram. and as far as performance, once i put it all back on the C: drive I have yet to lag BG's or towns.

I use vista 64