Considering you're basically in the situation I'm in, I'd go with it being your graphics card over your connection. In my experience with AT&T internet, it's pretty damn good and doesn't give me many game issues. The big decider would be to check your latency however. If you're getting big latency of 500 and above regularly (predicting soon: Ha ha, you think that's high?! I live in *insert island nation*!!!) then it's probably your connection or your addons bogging you down. If it's graphical intensity that's kicking your butt than it's likely your graphics card. (Like say, you walk into Nagrand and your frame rate drops because PRETTY)
I go insanely slow in Diablo 3 with the piece of crap in my laptop.
My fiance went from the same laptop as me (with his horrid internet connection) to a beautiful gaming pc and hasn't had the low fps or massive lag spikes sans his internet dying. And it's fairly obvious when his net is dying vs graphical issue.
When I just checked my latency, I'm at 400 or so in the middle of Stormwind. My highest addon on this toon is arkinventory at 7.61, followed by Recount which I don't even use on this guy since I don't run him for anything other than farming.
Hmmm...now that you mention it, I've never done any investigation in regards to what's huge for an addon.
HRM. 400 seems high to me on AT&T wireless. But not terrible and not quite massive lag spike level. I'm not sure, I'm not terribly computer literate but it still sounds like more of a graphics card issues than connection. It could be a mix of the two.
What about games not connected to the internet? Amnesia kicked me in the face for even daring to try to load it with my unworthy graphics card. Are you getting lag and need severely cut graphics to play other games?
>.> I don't play other games. Well, other than Plants vs. Zombies, and I just run that on default.
And I checked my latency again now, and I'm down to 70. If it matters, I was at 400 when I first logged on. And that usually happens a lot. Like, the lat spike. If I'm on for a while though, it hovers around 70 - 80.
Does it spike up when you have the regular lag spikes? It still smells heavily of graphics issues and possibly cooling to me. I know you can download programs that test how hot your machine runs but I couldn't tell you what's a good temp. I'm used to laptops where blistering is the norm.
Mmm....I want to say no, it doesn't. That the latency happens only when I first log onto a toon or zone into something. Like, if I see a loading screen I get a lat spike, but I can get a lag spike at any point in time.
I'm THINKING it's a graphics issue and crossing my fingers. It's the only reason I can think of tht would make Diablo play SO MUCH WORSE than WoW ever has.
Well graphics is why Diablo 3 runs like ass on my computer as my connection is completely fine even as wireless. It just seems really odd that you'd have issues with graphics intensive games like Diablo and have to keep Wow on low to function and it not be graphics related. Especially if your latency is in the green most of the time.
Speaking as someone from *insert island nation* 400 is pretty normal for SW in Australia, a lag spike that slows me down is over 1k. I would say your latency isn't the problem and your graphics card is. Of the 4 computers in my house that run WoW the ones that are slowest are the ones that don't have separate memory on the graphics cards. Vista is quite crap as well.
I go insanely slow in Diablo 3 with the piece of crap in my laptop.
My fiance went from the same laptop as me (with his horrid internet connection) to a beautiful gaming pc and hasn't had the low fps or massive lag spikes sans his internet dying. And it's fairly obvious when his net is dying vs graphical issue.
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Hmmm...now that you mention it, I've never done any investigation in regards to what's huge for an addon.
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What about games not connected to the internet? Amnesia kicked me in the face for even daring to try to load it with my unworthy graphics card. Are you getting lag and need severely cut graphics to play other games?
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And I checked my latency again now, and I'm down to 70. If it matters, I was at 400 when I first logged on. And that usually happens a lot. Like, the lat spike. If I'm on for a while though, it hovers around 70 - 80.
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I'm THINKING it's a graphics issue and crossing my fingers. It's the only reason I can think of tht would make Diablo play SO MUCH WORSE than WoW ever has.
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