PowerMac not so powerfull

maybe some of your preferences are corrupt. If you archive and install, it will probably fix your problems. To do this, put the CD that you got with the computer in the CD drive, restart the computer holding down the "C" key, and then when you see the window to reformat the HD, click "options" and archive and install". This will take your home folder, set it aside, and give a fresh new OS... you'll have you d/l all the updates of course.

 

I think you might want to restart your computer before playing games. So that the RAM gets flushed of all the programs that you had on at one point. It might also be something that is just a problem in WoW. Is WoW uptodate.

 

You also may want to tweak the video settings in WoW. Max settings in that game kill the performance, but don't make that much of a visual difference over somewhat lower settings.

 

Could be the video card, most likely WoW just doesn't like you.

 

Can you swap video cards between the two machines and see if the problem follows the card or remains with the machine? Which two video cards do you have?

 

In that case, just swap the HDs to see if it's a software issue.

The problem should follow the drive to the other machine if it is an issue with software.

 

Are they both running with the same settings and screen size? The 1920x1200 resolution of a 23" display should put a strain on any card.

 

If you have the same vid card in both machines then why does you sig say you have a 128Mb video card in your 2.5 and you have a 256Mb card in the 2.0?

 

also, check to make sure that the processor speed is not set to automatic, but set to highest. You do this in energy saver under system preferences.

 

Don't be so determined to find something wrong: There isn't. I run WoW on a comparable system, and I found that performance was awful with max settings.

As for why the other one has better performance... You said yourself it has faster processors, that may be part of it. Also, running the same versions of OSX? each time they've upgraded Panther, they have updated the video drivers.

 

Sounds like SW to me. Use target disk mode and boot the 2.0 off the 2.5 boot drive.

 

Oh, sorry. If you have a firewire cable, you can connect the 2 PMs with it, then start up the 2.0 PM using the disk on the 2.5. On the 2.5, restart it (after attaching the firewire cable) while holding down the "t" key, until the firewire icon appears. At this point, the 2.5 is acting like a fw storage device. It should show up on the 2.0 as a mounted disk volume. Select the 2.5 volume in the Startup Disk System Preference and restart the 2.0. The 2.0 should boot up on the 2.5 disk. See if you still have the WoW problem.

HTH

Edit: Here's a link with a bit more detail:

http://developer.apple.com/document...Macintosh_CPUs-G3/iBook30Sept00/iBook-10.html

P.S. If I got something wrong here, anyone please feel free to correct me.

 

What about your net connection? Is one's internet connection much slower than the other? This would definitely create lag.

If this isnt the problem, have you tried the archive and install suggested up at the top? This may fix your problems. Or maybe a clean install of WoW.

 

Sorry, I didn't catch that small detail You're screwed Anyway, do you have a spare firewire drive around? You could do a fresh install on it and see if that helps, without wiping out your current boot disk.

 

why didnt you just zap the pram and then repair permissions, then if that didnt work archive and install?