Okay, check this out. I got a new laptop this weekend. It's a refurbished HP Pavillion dv6604nr
Specs are as follows
-AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-55
-NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M
-2 Gig RAM installed
-Running Ubuntu 7.10 (It was a fresh install until I started playing around with my little sound issue thing with the headphones but that's another beast that I'll read around about).
First thing, for a seemingly bad *** computer, my other laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon X700 (mentioned above) plays WoW in XP immaculately. I dare to say that that's the best gaming laptop I've seen so far even without out all the critical hardware.
This laptop, though I love it for it's awesome support with Ubuntu, play WoW, even in Vista, very sluggishly (it came with Vista so I keep the laptop Dualbooted with Gutsy being my main OS as of right now since I don't really like how Vista isn't as sleek and spiffy as Gutsy is.
Anyway, to the problem. I've done every fix that I could find.
These fixes include:
-Adding the Registry key to Wine
-Modifying the Conf.wtf with those lines
-Turning off Compiz when I play
-Using Winefix and the script
Code:
winefix -n "-10" 'c:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe' -opengl
In game, I also disabled a bunch of settings to hopefully bump up the FPS. The thing that made a huge impact was the object/Terrain distance thing (I set it to near so I could at least keep spell and casts looking sweet an textures looking sharp). I also changed some video settings that sorta helped. My biggest beef is when I engage in combat, my FPS drops to around 6-10. When flying around an open area, my FPS is roughly 17-23.
Is this all just something I'm going to have to live with? Only reason I ask is because being a big PvPer in the game, I need to make some snap decisions or I could find myself letting...say my arena teams down.
Btw, I think right now Gutsy is giving me better performance than Vista...but I honestly think it's more capable of that since I've seen people out there with FRAPS while still running a decent looking Warcrack.
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