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Video card for WoW

pic should be forth coming this evening, when I get done with work.

Thanks!
 
Follow up

Just wanted everyone to know, the power cords came in today, and I got everything installed.

So far, everything seems to be working beautifully. Thank you all!!!
 
prechrchet said:
Just wanted everyone to know, the power cords came in today, and I got everything installed.

So far, everything seems to be working beautifully. Thank you all!!!
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You have no idea how good it is to hear that! I was already regretting recommending flashing but extremely nice to hear that everything is fine? Is it recognized in OS X? Is it your only GPU?
 
That's good news, I had my doubts that the card would work fully under OSX.

What rom did you use to flash it with?
Also which ports have you tried (HDMI, DVI etc...)?
 
The card itself is working great. It seems to be recognized by OS X, and my gaming experience, for the most part, is vastly improved.

However, I have all of a sudden started having issues with my airport. All of a sudden, without any warning, WOW will freeze up on me, and I disconnect about 30% of the time. Is there any way on earth this could be related to the new video card?
 
prechrchet said:
The card itself is working great. It seems to be recognized by OS X, and my gaming experience, for the most part, is vastly improved.

However, I have all of a sudden started having issues with my airport. All of a sudden, without any warning, WOW will freeze up on me, and I disconnect about 30% of the time. Is there any way on earth this could be related to the new video card?
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What do you mean by freezing? Does the game completely crash or do you just lose connection?

Doesn't sound that it's GPU related unless the whole game freezes. If you have any single player games, try them.
 
Here is what happens:

All of a sudden, everyone around me is running in place. I can still click on the icons to control my toon, but nothing happens. Then, maybe several seconds later, maybe a few minutes later, everything catches up all at once. Its like having a movie pause, (except for the main character is able to run around), then then jumps into super high speed fast forward for a split second to catch up to where it should be.

For what it's worth, while it is doing this, my latency jumps from may 75 up to, at one point, to almost 5000. This was prone to happen when we got into a boss fight, or something else that was intense.

Also, one work around has been to run a 50 ft ethernet cable to my airport extreme base station (older model with only one lan port).

Does all of that make sense?
 
prechrchet said:
Here is what happens:

All of a sudden, everyone around me is running in place. I can still click on the icons to control my toon, but nothing happens. Then, maybe several seconds later, maybe a few minutes later, everything catches up all at once. Its like having a movie pause, (except for the main character is able to run around), then then jumps into super high speed fast forward for a split second to catch up to where it should be.

For what it's worth, while it is doing this, my latency jumps from may 75 up to, at one point, to almost 5000. This was prone to happen when we got into a boss fight, or something else that was intense.

Also, one work around has been to run a 50 ft ethernet cable to my airport extreme base station (older model with only one lan port).

Does all of that make sense?
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If it works with cable, then it's not GPU issue. Is it okay to use it with wire?

Wait for few days, might be a problem with ISP too
 
Yeah, I know the problem is with my wireless. My question is whether or not the new video card could be interfering with the wireless.

I know this sounds nuts, but is it possible that when the video card is really having to crank out a lot of output (for example, in a boss fight), that it puts out something that could interfere with the wireless signal?
 
prechrchet said:
Yeah, I know the problem is with my wireless. My question is whether or not the new video card could be interfering with the wireless.

I know this sounds nuts, but is it possible that when the video card is really having to crank out a lot of output (for example, in a boss fight), that it puts out something that could interfere with the wireless signal?
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Well, to try that, you can remove the card and put your old card back and see does the issue still exist
 
Issues

OK, I have had this card for a few weeks, and I am still having the lag issues. Last night was particularly rough as I caused my group to wipe on at least one occasion.

Here's the thing: we are bypassing the wireless card and going with a cable connection straight to the airport. When I ran a speed test this morning, I got basically the same thing: the test was running, but all of a sudden, the flash video on the screen would freeze up for a second or two, then everything would catch up. I can tell from the numbers that the connection is just fine (around 25 MB/sec), but the video isn't showing it.

Is this likely a video card issue?
 
prechrchet said:
OK, I have had this card for a few weeks, and I am still having the lag issues. Last night was particularly rough as I caused my group to wipe on at least one occasion.

Here's the thing: we are bypassing the wireless card and going with a cable connection straight to the airport. When I ran a speed test this morning, I got basically the same thing: the test was running, but all of a sudden, the flash video on the screen would freeze up for a second or two, then everything would catch up. I can tell from the numbers that the connection is just fine (around 25 MB/sec), but the video isn't showing it.

Is this likely a video card issue?
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it could be. but it could also be a large number of other things. are you running the latest flash version to run that test? thats a pretty important one.

what is your CPU usage at? what is your RAM usage at? how much free HDD space do you have?
 
Ok, here are the numbers: (and, just to be sure, I just downloaded and installed the latest version of Flash, and ran the test, and experienced another lag)

HD space: 115.24 available
CPU usage (during speedtest) 60% idle
Ram usage: 1.74 - 1.9 GB used (out of 3 GB).
 
Does it still work fine when connected with a wire? It could be a GPU issue but that's hard to say and flashing is always a risk. I'd drop cindori a line and ask if he has any idea how that can be solved
 
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