After much misery trying to get my graphics card and network usb dongle working I finally managed to get my pc up and running.

Copy wow across, fire it up and I'm dying to check out the frames per second this puppy will give.

I run around shatrath and my frames per second is 30...... just 30.

To say I'm disappointed is an understatement.

Details of my rig are

INTEL CORE 2 QUAD Q6600 8MB CACHE 1066 MHZ TOWER COMPUTER WITH NVIDIA 8500GT 1024MB DDR2 GRAPHICS CARD.
500GB 16MB CACHE SATA HARD DRIVE
WITH 20X DUAL LAYER LIGHTSCRIBE DVDRW + 2GB DDR 2 MEMORY .

OS is VIsta 64.


I was kind of expecting double the frames per second.

Am I being unrealistic?

I then decided to run a second instance of wow on it - the second one fired up and the frame rates dropped through the floor -with 8fps on one and 10-15 I guess on the other. Surely this isn't right.

Anyone with similar specs seeing the same level of performance - or more importantly far better performance?

my vista 32 cheap laptop amd turion 64 2.2 ghz laptop with 2 gig memory and a nvidia geoforce 6100 seems to handle two instances better, and runs one instance of wow in a window at 15 fps.

I really thought my quad core machine was going to rock.

Does anyone have any suggestions to get the level of performance I feel I should be getting out of this box?