I’ve been playing World of Warcraft on the lowest of settings and have expected it to run much better on 256Mb of VRAM but was wrong....or am i?
From what I’ve found out looking at various sources Wow (world of Warcraft) only needs 64mb of VRAM to run at lowest settings (Not much at all) and here I am on my machine running on macros to make the settings lower than the game offers. I can play Halo 2 and Combat arms at 40 - 50 fps and they look a whole lot better than Wow so what gives? My friends’ computer has a Display card with even lower VRAM then mine and runs Wow on Fair settings and 30fps and On my machine I’m running at 17 - 20fps. Now I know that It can run allot better than that so why in the world is it not? I turn off all background processes and play in full screen and even reduce windows effects and that still doesn’t seem to have any difference. I don’t think my fire wall has anything to do with this but it hardly takes any room on my computer. I’ve also turned off all anti - analyzing and shaders including particles and anti-trophic features and reduced the view distance down to low in game.
Is there a way i can make my display card utilize what memory it has and NOT hold back because that’s what it seems it’s doing. I’m not sure I can share extra RAM with VRAM. I’m not sure what card my machine uses yet but can repost my system specs later today.
So far all i know about it is:
Manufacturer: Hp (Hewlett-Packard)
Model: Pavilion a4316f-b desktop
OS: Windows Vista Home
CPU/Ram: 4.00 GB
Video Card: ?? (Post later when i get home)
From what I’ve found out looking at various sources Wow (world of Warcraft) only needs 64mb of VRAM to run at lowest settings (Not much at all) and here I am on my machine running on macros to make the settings lower than the game offers. I can play Halo 2 and Combat arms at 40 - 50 fps and they look a whole lot better than Wow so what gives? My friends’ computer has a Display card with even lower VRAM then mine and runs Wow on Fair settings and 30fps and On my machine I’m running at 17 - 20fps. Now I know that It can run allot better than that so why in the world is it not? I turn off all background processes and play in full screen and even reduce windows effects and that still doesn’t seem to have any difference. I don’t think my fire wall has anything to do with this but it hardly takes any room on my computer. I’ve also turned off all anti - analyzing and shaders including particles and anti-trophic features and reduced the view distance down to low in game.
Is there a way i can make my display card utilize what memory it has and NOT hold back because that’s what it seems it’s doing. I’m not sure I can share extra RAM with VRAM. I’m not sure what card my machine uses yet but can repost my system specs later today.
So far all i know about it is:
Manufacturer: Hp (Hewlett-Packard)
Model: Pavilion a4316f-b desktop
OS: Windows Vista Home
CPU/Ram: 4.00 GB
Video Card: ?? (Post later when i get home)