ati radeon 1150 help

[joemorris86]

hey guys,
i have a ati 1150 in my new dell 1501 inspiron laptop.
the laptop has vista and it sucks at playing world of warcraft, i get a terrible fps, which i have read a lot of vista users are getting.

I was wondering if there were any advanced settings i coukld tweak in the ati control panel to make it work smoother.

I have downloaded the lastest drivers with no luck.

any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[feriso]

It really is a naff card mate - you won;t get any better by doing anything with it. OK vista drivers may not be great but its still the card I'd say.

 

[ajgoodfellow]

Yeah - unfortunately it's a slow low end card so it's not that quick. That coupled with Vista (on which games tend to currently run slower than on XP) doesn't help

All I can suggest is that you ensure that AA and AF are switched off, try using a low detail texture setting and run it at a low resolution such as 640x480

World of Warcraft isn't that demanding so you should be able to get it to run - it's running fine on my housemates X550 at 1024x768

EDIT: If it's a Vista issue then perhaps there's a patch on the WoW site? Just a thought!

 

[joemorris86]

AA and AF are both set on 'application managed' and i cant see an off option, only x2 x4 and x6.

is there another way to turn it off?

 

[ajgoodfellow]

If they're set as "Application Managed" then ensure that it's switched off in the Sims 2 preferences

 

[Tetras]

As already said above just try to lower every setting as much as possible, it really is a badly performing card

 

[joemorris86]

ok, wow doesn't have an application mannaged one, so should i just set it to x2 ? or leave it as it is ?

 

[ajgoodfellow]

Set it to OFF - 2x means that Anti-Aliasing is enabled leading to poorer performance

Make sure that all effects are switched off and that you've selected the lowest resolution and the lowest texture quality

 

[Tetras]

As already said above if your available driver settings are Application Managed, 2x, 4x etc then just make sure it is off in the game settings (e.g. WoW display options or whatever).

If there is no "OFF" option available in the driver panel, you have set it to "application managed" and no AA (anti-aliasing) option exists in the game itself, then you can assume it is indeed, off.