Orangeshit 0 Report post Posted April 5, 2017 I just bought this laptop for $40, its temporary. It has an Intel Pentium T3200 / 4GB Ram 800mhz. But for some odd reason in vanilla world of warcraft (2004 game) im getting like 12-20 FPS. In drivers it says the display adapter is (Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family) If anyone has any solutions as to how i can fix this FPS issue id greatly appreciate it. Thanks!! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Orangeshit 0 Report post Posted April 5, 2017 Just now, Paytime said: Well, I can only suggest you the usual: update your drivers (+ check if you have any driver issues in the device manager). Otherwise, even though WoW's an old game, it still a quite demanding game and requires quite a lot of CPU power (in fact, some ultrabooks will even start throttling due to WoW). In fact I am not surprised that you only get this amount of FPS. Try lowering your settings and/or screen resolution! Best regards Iv got all settings completely down. It doesnt seem to be the CPU its self. its idling around 50-60% with wow running. It seem to be more of a graphical problem. Im not 100% sure about laptops. is it possible to update graphic drivers with onboard graphics? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Orangeshit 0 Report post Posted April 5, 2017 im fairly skeptical its anything to do with hardware. iv ran vanilla wow on WAY worse hardware. I shouldnt be getting 15 Fps in bootybay. Thank for the help though. Appreciate it. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Storfan 24 Report post Posted April 6, 2017 There's a difference in running it on an old desktop with a CPU and a dedicated GPU vs running it on a laptop in which the CPU will handle both roles. TLDR: Your CPU is handling the graphics. CPUs arent good at handling graphics. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smokeit 26 Report post Posted April 6, 2017 9 hours ago, Orangeshit said: im fairly skeptical its anything to do with hardware. iv ran vanilla wow on WAY worse hardware. I shouldnt be getting 15 Fps in bootybay. Thank for the help though. Appreciate it. Weird. 1st and 2nd gen mobile i7's have those fps for me. Think with your current hardware its normal. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alrik 6 Report post Posted April 6, 2017 And if you have 50% on Taskmanager it doesnt mean your CPU isnt on Full load. This misbelief has to stop. Windows' CPU Handler doesnt work like that. An extremely simplified example, your CPU has 4 Cores and the Software you use can only get Handled by 1 Core, it will show as 25% CPU load in the Taskmanager even tho its on max. My Ultrabook Zenbook has a i7-4510U and it can't handle Vanilla WoW in FullHD and lowest Detailsettings. (i get 30-40 FPS) 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Storfan 24 Report post Posted April 6, 2017 50 minutes ago, Alrik said: And if you have 50% on Taskmanager it doesnt mean your CPU isnt on Full load. This misbelief has to stop. Windows' CPU Handler doesnt work like that. An extremely simplified example, your CPU has 4 Cores and the Software you use can only get Handled by 1 Core, it will show as 25% CPU load in the Taskmanager even tho its on max. My Ultrabook Zenbook has a i7-4510U and it can't handle Vanilla WoW in FullHD and lowest Detailsettings. (i get 30-40 FPS) Indeed. Which returns me to my previous point. CPUs arent designed to perform GPU-tasks "well". And of desktop graphics card is likely to perform better than a new CPU doing the same graphic-task. (very simplified ofcourse). 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Orangeshit 0 Report post Posted April 7, 2017 I found out the issue, its the onboard graphics. Was searching through some forums. the Intel Family 4 Chipset Is apparently the worst of the worst. I just turned down resolution a lot and toned now all background processes. Running around 30 fps. So its playable. thanks for help mates 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
