Vista and World of Warcraft

[Guest]

Hello,

I am running Beta 2 with a Abit AV8 MB and Athlon 64 3500+ CPU with 768MB of
RAM. I have a ATI Radeon X850 Video Card also.

WoW will crash intermittently while being ran. When it crashes the screen
freezes and it locks up my system requiring a cold reboot.

I have tried both the video driver that comes with vista and the beta
drivers from ATI to no avail.

Any techies have any insight into my problem? Could my low amount of RAM
(768M) be the issue???

Thanks in advance!

Bryan

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Contact the bloke who made it (can't remember his name, but it's on the
site).

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[Paul Smith]

I am running Beta 2 with a Abit AV8 MB and Athlon 64 3500+ CPU with 768MB
of
RAM. I have a ATI Radeon X850 Video Card also.

WoW will crash intermittently while being ran. When it crashes the screen
freezes and it locks up my system requiring a cold reboot.

I have tried both the video driver that comes with vista and the beta
drivers from ATI to no avail.

Any techies have any insight into my problem? Could my low amount of RAM
(768M) be the issue???

World of Warcraft is working ok here, with a 850XT.... I've had a few other
games fall over when starting however, Civ 4, ZT2, Half-Life... But
starting them in a window works fine.

I'm not sure if there's a switch to tell WoW to start in a window, but you
might want to give that a try.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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[Guest]

I'm also having issues running WoW in Vista. It doesn't seem to be able to
detect widescreen resolutions (e.g. 1680x1050), even when running it
windowed. Could be an issue with the nVidia drivers.

 

[GM Collins]

I'm also having issues running WoW in Vista. It doesn't seem to be able to
detect widescreen resolutions (e.g. 1680x1050), even when running it
windowed. Could be an issue with the nVidia drivers.

No, it is happenening with ATI cards also. There is a thread on the WoW
support forums with other people having the same issue across a range of
cards.