- Jul 1, 2002
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I was recently playing World of Warcraft on a friend's computer I was shocked at how smooth his alt tab was.
When I alt tab from the game I normally deal with 2-4 seconds of a black screen and then maybe another 1 second of the computer just being a little slow. Same with tabbing back into the game. On his computer it was nearly instantaneous.
I also got the impression that his framerates were smoother than mine. I have quite a bit of variance at 1280x1024, anywhere from 15 to 50 fps depending on how much is going on in front of me. His didn't seem to produce as significant downward spikes and he runs it at 1680x(something, can't remember, he plays on a widescreen)
His specs are something like AMD 3000+, nVidia 6800 GS, 2GB RAM (2x1GB generic)
My specs: AMD64 3200+, Radeon X1950XT, 1GB RAM (2x 512MB Corsair XMS)
Is the answer really just to upgrade RAM or is the performance gap indicative of other issues (I've had PSU problems in the past)?
When I alt tab from the game I normally deal with 2-4 seconds of a black screen and then maybe another 1 second of the computer just being a little slow. Same with tabbing back into the game. On his computer it was nearly instantaneous.
I also got the impression that his framerates were smoother than mine. I have quite a bit of variance at 1280x1024, anywhere from 15 to 50 fps depending on how much is going on in front of me. His didn't seem to produce as significant downward spikes and he runs it at 1680x(something, can't remember, he plays on a widescreen)
His specs are something like AMD 3000+, nVidia 6800 GS, 2GB RAM (2x1GB generic)
My specs: AMD64 3200+, Radeon X1950XT, 1GB RAM (2x 512MB Corsair XMS)
Is the answer really just to upgrade RAM or is the performance gap indicative of other issues (I've had PSU problems in the past)?