- The game is highly dependant on the video adaptor in your computer using up to date drivers. Please bear in mind that laptop computer manufacturers commonly do not update their drivers on a regular basis. Frequently, these manufacturers only supply drivers based on the drivers that the chipset manufacturer's were offering at approximately the same time the laptop was released. This means that laptops with older video cards (Geforce 2Go, ATI Radeon Mobility series, and Radeon IGP 300 series) that technically meet our system requirements will often be unable to run the game for lack of modern drivers. Trying to install the latest reference drivers from your laptop's video chipset manufacturer (ATI or nVidia, for example) will usually result in an error that advises you that the video chip installed is not supported, and installation will fail. Although it is possible to install these files by modifying the driver's .inf file or using unsupported third-party distributions of the drivers, this can cause serious display issues and we cannot recommend this strategy.

Laptop Specs

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz
Memory: 5126MB RAM
Display Card : Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Chip type: Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset
DAC type: Internal
Display Memory: 128.0 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled

It says here...
that my laptop could play WoW on minimum graphic settings. that's true.. but.. i always get low fps when i go places where there's a lot of other players such as ogrimmar. And i cant do any AV or WSG at all.. fps goes damn low.. it looks like it's flipping pages of a comic book.

But when i go grinding, questing, i get fps @ around 20fps. and now im wondering is this because of my low RAM capacity that i have in my laptop?
Should i not or should i upgrade the RAM to 1gb? i would love to go for 2gb, but my laptop cant. haha...

Maybe u guys were wondering why i play with a laptop,
i do have a gaming pc, but sometimes i would like to go to my friend's house and play with them, so that's why im playing with my laptop too...

I have already set to the lowest settings... BTW what does multisampling do? the lower the? the higher the? please enligthen me..

ohya.. i forgot to mention about, my RAM usage bar goes up to 550+mb when i play WoW, and having Firefox on the background, and i play WoW on window mode.

Is this significantly due to RAM? i just dun wanna rush into conclusions end up upgrading it and have no difference later..

you are using an onboard display to play WoW, what do you expect? :/

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Added on October 3, 2007, 9:28 am

if you using 550 mb ram, and got 1gb ram, ur fine. if you only got 512mb ram, then you have to upgrade it asap as ur vram swapping already

and multisampling is similiar if not the same as anti aliasing. wikipedia it.

definately ram problem...
the problem with onboard graphic cards, especially these intel types is that they do not have independant rams... they leech it off your main mother board ram. so if ur graphic card is a 128 mb ram type, that means ur running wow with less than 512 ram...

i got a dell 6400 2gig ram with x1400 ati mobility readon 1.73ghz intell centrino duo t5300 u think got any problems with the game???

It's your graphics card that is the bottle neck. you'll have to lower alot of the graphical settings to get better performance.
Ram will help. Maybe upping to 1 or even 2 gig will net you better performance.

i got a dell 6400 2gig ram with x1400 ati mobility readon 1.73ghz intell centrino duo t5300 u think got any problems with the game???

err i think should be ok i was playing wow on my old laptop with similar spec but 512mb ram so should be ok