Why does wow play like crap On my PC

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#1 Rainbow6Vet
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I got and ati 4870 1 gig with a phenom 9650 OC to 2.5. I can run crysis and fallout 3 on max settings and get 30 Fps on crysis and it destroys fallout 3. So i had to upgrade to Vista 64 after my copy of xp 64 had problems running alot of softwear plus virus scans didnt support xp 64. The fact that microsofts own virus scan and firewall didnt support it was the straw that broke the camels back. Wow ran fine on xp with 4 gigs of ram but when i went to vista my fps dropped to 18 fps from 75 i was getting on xp. So i bought 4 more gigs to fix the problem nothing happened same crappy frams what going on. I heard of a guy with to 4870's crossfired having the same problem on wow is there any way for me to fix this? When im in an instance it works fine but when im flying, in a raid , or running in a crowed city i get these frame crashes. Is there a way to fix This?

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#2 FelipeInside
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looks like it happens only when u are in crowded areas.... u sure it's not internet lag?
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#3 _rpg_FAN
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Strange, mybe you have FRAPS (or some other similar software like Xfire)and pressed "record movie" button accidentaly

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#4 Rainbow6Vet
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No its not internet lagg only the frams drop

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#5 BlackStalker
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Buy a new computer.
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#6 Rainbow6Vet
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you got to be kidding right

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#7 Terranwolf09
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Buy a new computer.BlackStalker
That's bad advice. This sounds like a driver-related issue.
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#9 MorbidToaster
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Buy a new computer.BlackStalker
I lold.
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#10 ReubenFTW
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check what your running in the background, could be something hogging your resource
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#11 FelipeInside
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check what your running in the background, could be something hogging your resourceReubenFTW
Yep....this Also could be a driver issue....with the 64bit version of Vista
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#12 clembo1990
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Programs can interefere with the performance of the game. If you have ANY anti virus stuff then close that to start with. Then look at the big memory hogs on Ctrl+Alt+Del and end programs like skype, msn, steam, and maybe swap to classic mode if you're using vista. If you start getting bluescreen its a hardware issue, so come back and post again if that happens (i had a similar thing with other games on my compuda). On the other hand, it may be a stupid poor optimisation thing with 64 bit machines. it could be a whole number of things.
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#13 johnny27
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its ur cpu no doubt u have a slow quad core the original phenoms are slow and clock for clock get destroyed by any of intels core duo or quad cores i had a 5600+ 2.8 ghz and it was bottle necking my gpu in cpu games like l4d and tf2 especially when there where alot of people on screen at once upgrade to any phenonII processor and it will solve ur problem.
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its ur cpu no doubt u have a slow quad core the original phenoms are slow and clock for clock get destroyed by any of intels core duo or quad cores i had a 5600+ 2.8 ghz and it was bottle necking my gpu in cpu games like l4d and tf2 especially when there where alot of people on screen at once upgrade to any phenonII processor and it will solve ur problem.johnny27
Then how do you explain the fact that it ran fine in XP?
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#15 FelipeInside
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[QUOTE="johnny27"]its ur cpu no doubt u have a slow quad core the original phenoms are slow and clock for clock get destroyed by any of intels core duo or quad cores i had a 5600+ 2.8 ghz and it was bottle necking my gpu in cpu games like l4d and tf2 especially when there where alot of people on screen at once upgrade to any phenonII processor and it will solve ur problem.NitristSvensk
Then how do you explain the fact that it ran fine in XP?

I'm not saying that the other poster about the CPU is correct....but Vista is more hungry than XP Saying that... I don't believe it's ur CPU.... something is interfering in the background Have you done a spyware check?