wow

[mooglet]

Can someone help? Just bought new computer with windows vista installed, most things seem ok except the internet now seems slower on somethings. My son plays WOW the internet game and he says it does not run properly, he says it has bad latency, (dont know if thats how you spell it, they also call it lag) It was fine on windows xp. We have Virgin Broadband, so is it the internet not good with vista or the WOW not good with vista, is there any thing he can do to improve it. Also skype is not good either lots of broken sound. Any ideas. I know nothing about any of this so excuse the rubbish question. I know WOW is not that important but it is to him as he buys the subscription himself.

[Neilzulu1]

I also have vista and play wow. I think your problem is that your pc specification is just not good enough. Read the system requirements on the WOW box and see if your pc meets them.

I think you will find that is your problem as WOW runs smoothly on my pc. Lag is a server issue that all on line gamers sometime suffer from.

What speed is your broadband on ? That could be an issue also. Hope this helps.

[mooglet]

thanks, will pass this on to him

[vehelpfulguy]

With Vista I assume you are using Internet Explorer 7.

This browser has extra security built in that may be slowing things down.

Try turning off the Phishing filter to see if that speeds thngs up.

Or maybe install the Firefox browser and see if that makes it run faster.

[mooglet]

The new pc spec is better than the old one, better graphics card and a duel processer. have contacted virgin broadband and the internet speed is fine. The only thing different is vista. Any more ideas. Have tried firefox. Browsing internet is fine its online games that the problem is with. Once again sorry about basic question but pc know how would fit on postage stamp.