So, as you may know, I have an off and on addiction to World of Warcraft, and lately I had been having trouble with bad FPS. I have an NVIDIA 7900GT, 1.25 gig’s of RAM, and an AMD 64 Athlon processor 3500+, 2.2 GHz. My computer is a medium level computer, and I have always had very good frame rates on World of Warcraft since it really isn’t that graphic heavy. However, lately I had been constantly getting 10-15 FPS outside, while getting 5-10 FPS while in big cities, such as Shattrath.

I thought that maybe this had something to do with me being on Vista, but when I used to play back in the Spring, I didn’t remember having this problem. I searched around for an answer on the internet, but mostly all I found were people telling other people to buy better hardware. I knew that my system could perform fine without me buying better hardware. So I ended up doing a few things that finally got my frame rate back to normal.

1. I first deleted my WTF folder in my World of Warcraft folder. Mine was located in C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft.
2. Then, since I am on Vista, I right clicked on the World of Warcraft shortcut and clicked “Run as administrator.” I’m not really sure if this makes any difference, but it doesn’t really hurt.
3. Once World of Warcraft started, I launched the Task Manager, which you can get to by pushing CTRL+ALT+DEL, or in Vista you can right click on the Taskbar and click on Task Manager (might be able to do this in XP too, but I’m not sure).
4. When in the Task Manager, right click on Wow.exe and set the priority to “Above normal.”
5. Then go back into World of Warcraft.

After doing all of this, my frame rates were back to normal. I then set my video settings back to the way I had them before, and now everything works the way I wanted it to. I’m not sure if this will work for everyone, but I thought I’d put my experience out there for anybody to see. Let me know what you think in the comments.