WoW frame-rate issues?

Question

When i play, it works fine with the frame rate around 25 fps for up to a couple of hours sometimes, but then it drops and stays around 7. Any suggestions on how to keep the frame rate consistent around 25?

Comp Specs:

CPU: 2 processors running - AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 TL-58

CPU Speed: 1.90 GHz Performance Rated at 3.85 GHz

System RAM: 1.9 GB

OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, 32-bit (Build Service Pack 16001)

Video Card: NVIDIA MCP67M

Answer 1

The bottle-neck is your graphics card--it's 64mb, and integrated.  You're never going to get very good performance out of that laptop, but there are a few ways to improve performance (marginally):

1. change video options ingame to their lowest settings

2. avoid in-game locations with lots of graphics and large concentrations of players running around

3. close non-system processes running when you feel like gaming (task manager)

4. get more ram--Vista 32-bit will support up to 3gb of ram

5. update your video drivers

6. assign hard drive space as virtual ram (little to no improvement)

7. get a better laptop (the BEST option)