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Last Login: 12/1/2008 9:25 PM
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Hi,
First, great web site you have here Tytus. Very informative. Gratz! 
Now, on to my issue: I'm experiencing annoying lag in WoW. I see this as "stuttery", or "jerky" video movement mostly when I turn around, and in the worst cases also when I'm moving forward. Lowering WoW's video settings susbstantially can pretty much get rid of this issue, but due to my system specs I feel like I should be able to play the game at max settings. More on that later.
Now, I don't have this problem at all when I'm in the "classic" portion of WoW. It really happens only in Outland, and now is even worse in Northrend with the new Lich King expansion. Things also got worse after the 3.01 update, where Blizz raised the max levels of many video settings.
My first problem at this point is trying to pinpoint the source of the lag. I guess it could be my video card, my internet connection, or Blizzard's servers. Finding out the source has been rather difficult due to some conflicting data. Here is what I know so far:
- This doesn't happen only in crowded cities like Shatt. I see this when all alone in some zones like Zangarmarsh, Terokkar Forest, and some others. I guess this might indicate that the lag is due to my GPU.
- I've seen improvements when playing at different times or on different days. This would indicate net or server problems I guess. However, the issue never completey disappears, and some zones are always problematic.
- I've ran LagMeter, but it almost always crashes on me. However, the 2 times when it managed to run fine, it gave me the following average resuls: [75 server, 0 client, 25 internet] and [59 server, 2 client, 25 internet]. This would seem to indicate that Blizzard's server is mostly at fault, except that...
- ... other guild members on my server say they don't see any lag and don't have stuttery video. Also, I've tried creating characters on different servers (which I've learned are located closer to my home), and the issue was exactly the same.
I'm using an 8-core 3GHz Mac Pro, with a Nvidia 8800GT, and a 50 Mbits/second cable modem. I play the game on my Windows XP partition (because of better Nvidia drivers on Windows), but have also tried it in Mac OS X and the results were the same, maybe even worse. I don't have any anti-virus or other software installed, because I use the WIndows partition only to play games, nothing else. It 's a very lean install.
So, does anyone have a clue about what's going on? Shouldn't a 8800GT be able to run WoW at max settings, with 4x antialiasing? Or is it still not powerful enough?
Should a 50 Mbits/sec modem be fast enough? Cause it's the fastest I can get here in Canada, short of opening my own college campus and installing a T3 network.
If the Blizz servers are at fault, shouldn't other guild members have the same issues (unless they do and just don't notice them as much as I do)?
So many questions...
If anyone can shed some light on this, I will very much appreciate it.
P.S. although I would love to give Killer NIC a try, I need a card that also works in Mac OS X. Make OS X drivers, and I'll be first in line.
Thanks!
Martin Nadeau
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