TiznaraN

Hey, I haven't used this computer really at all in the last year(2-3 times a month). The other day I decided to fire it up update everything and get some use out of it again. I used to play World of Warcraft a lot on this machine, and back then I was running the 40 man stuff with lots of animations flying around on the screen at once, I'd run around 40 fps. Now I run at 8 fps when I'm off by myself in the woods staring at the ground. All other system performance seems to be where it was left at other than my FPS.

I posted on wow tech support and the blue said something about my agp speed but couldn't help me with it. Is there anything I can do to boost my cards performance? I have turned all settings to low, and all the way to high with no difference in performance. Updated driver, all the basics, I'm just a little nervous to be changing port speeds or w/e that would do.

scyclone

it depends on what card you have 4x/8x. some BIOS/mobos dont allow you to change it or theire limited to lower.
restart you comp and check BIOS ( dont make ANY changes just look) and see your AGP(aperture) options.


also (WoW)theyve made some graphical updates /changes /improvements since 2-3years ago..specially with BC.
used to run fine on 512MB when it came out now 1gig or more is optimum for wow.

TiznaraN

i have a gig of ram. agp can be set to 256, my card is 256mb. it has an option of 8x support, enabled or disable, it's set to enabled. also voltage and hz can be changed i have pheonix bios. right now tho the apeture is set at 128mb.

TiznaraN

well i up'd apeture to 256, no change =\

nvidia 5600 fx.

emosun

Check your voltages and temps , us speedfan in my sig if you need a program to view them. Also I think WoW requires a directx 9 card now , the nvidia 5 series I beleive only go to directx 8 and that could be slowing it down.

TiznaraN

i think you're right, it is dx8. although i have dx9.c installed. so they upgraded the graphics to require like a 6600 for tbc? but even still with graphical settings toned almost all the way down I should be seeing improvements no? It's the same fps w/maxed settings as it is with minimum.

temp 1 35c
temp 2 36c

VCORE 1.66V
+3.3V 3.30V
+5V 4.97V
+12V 5.65V
-12V -9.12V
-5V -2.22V

I'm pretty clueless as to what those are all about, some aren't matching up is this a problem?

for some reason it shows fan 1-3, fan1:3879 RPM, says 0 for the other two although i see them spinning away just fine.

FreoHeaveho

I would suggest doing a system restore till the point before you updated everything (ie, the condition it was in 2 months ago). Then see if you still have the problem. If not, i would suggest making sure you update drivers in safe mode.

ebackhus

Unless it's a mis-reading your +12v is seriously out of range. That can be causing all sorts of problems for you.

The FX-series cards supported DirectX 9.0b.

FreoHeaveho

the system wouldn't boot if they were correct readings.