WoW Lag...Help??

[spiritfalcon]

I am wondering what would be the best upgrades to minimize lag in WoW? My page loads are far slower than my friends and Ironforge makes me want to scream sometimes. Would I be better off upgrading to 1gb Ram, or should I get a faster CPU? This is the first system I have put together so, I am a complete noob.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

Oops...my Mobo is now the A7n8x-x. It has the Nvidia chipset.

[04nmr85]

Upgrading to 1gig of ram would probably help, what kind of internet connection do you have?

EDIT: I run WoW on the system in my sig and I don't usually lag at all. I have Verizon DSL also, i think lag has more to do with ur internet connection then anything else. I could be wrong tho so don't quote me on that :-) If u play on a high population server u'll probably lag more too. The server i played on was medium population so that could be another reason why i didn't lag much.

[nocturnx]

Yea it has more to do with your internet connection. I play on my laptop sometimes at home on roadrunner and it runs fine except for when in ogrimmar of course. And then I am playing on the hotels broadband right now with the same laptop and its always laggy. I dont think upgrading to 1gig would help much in the way or lag but it will probly let you turn up the detail in the game a tad. Not sure what internet you have but Ive had a better experience playing online games on cable broadband rather than dsl. Also if you are running firewall or antivirus software shut it down, this should help.

[Byte 2.0]

I believe the ram would help just because when I am playing WOW, wow is normally consuming about 460meg of ram in my system.

At the time I checked that, I had 1 GB in my system.
I just added 512 more, for a total of 1.5G.

Did I notice any difference going from 1G to 1.5, maybe slightly. Reason I added the extra ram, I got a sweet deal on it and figured it would help for higher end raids with allot of people around.

but Iron Forge was not getting me trouble, except about a 4-8 second hung entering or leaving while on a Griffen. I still get that, I believe it recovers slightly faster now.

My processor is the XP3200 AMD, 400fsb. Barton.

but looking at your system, it is a tuff call to make for me, which would give the most bang for your buck.

I think you will notice a difference with either. CPU maybe more, just gaining the extra cycles.


I will agree allot of it is the connection, followed by programs running in the background.

Most of my guild is either 512 or 1G of ram. those with 512 do seem to complain more about lag, however there could very way be many other factors.

So probably
CPU, connection, ram.