grayskunk

Hi, Your onboard GFX on? if you use it for one of those monitors, when you changed cards it could have flipped to your main display

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Acoma_Andy

I'm suprised nobody has mentioned it yet.

NFS Undercover runs horrible on any card because it's poorly coded.

WoW can bog down any card, seen it lot's of times before. Disable shadows or something to get better FPS.

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Auld

You guys can beat around the bush all you want, quad or not @ 1280x1024 a 2.2ghz CPU is bottlenecking his system with an HD4850. And for you guys saying WoW is not stressing older systems and getting 60+ FPS, the game has changed since then.

revlimiter

Yeah, I think it's software related as well... Quad core should be suitable - even if the game itself doesn't utilize all 4 cores. It should be plenty fast enough with the HD4850 running.

Keep in mind, I am getting 20ish fps in WoW with *all* settings maxed out. (Including draw distance)... But still... it isn't a very graphically intense game in the first place.

I can get 60fps no prob all details set to minimum in WoW but I have even seen it drop to mid 40's with lots of characters on screen.

revlimiter

What sort of CPU would you recommend, Auld?
(For the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H AM2+ motherboard)

revlimiter

Yes, both monitors set to 4800 series. Good call though

KamuiRSX

Sorry I missed your reply. I played WoW at 1680 x 1050 on my Athlon XP and it worked just fine around 36FPS at wherever the night elves started.

I would honestly just go ahead and do a format/re-install.

If you honestly want a new CPU, go with either the Phenom II 940 BE, the Phenom II 720 BE or even one of the 9850, 9950 BE models. But it's honestly not your CPU. Do you have a spare hard drive around? Take out your old hard drive, re-install Windows on the new hard drive and then install the 9.2 Drivers, install WoW and then play see what kind of FPS you get.

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skarm

3Dmark06: 10,995
Crysis High 0xAA 1440x900 benchmark run: ~41 FPS
Team Fortress 2 32-man: Always 59 / 60

revlimiter

Shouldn't have to re-format. But it may be the only option I have left Maybe I should downgrade to XP while I'm at it? LOL

revlimiter

I'll download 3Dmark06 to see what sorta score I get.

I noticed I did the Windows Experience Index using Vista (which is crap to begin with) and my score only went up 0.1 point on my graphics card... LOL 0.1 point for a card that is approximately 3 years newer!