RAM help FPS? - cont.?

Question

I am playing World of Warcraft, I have a PCI card not PCIe or AGP. I have an aftermarket 128mb PCI card from ATI. I bought it thinking it would help my lag out a little, which it did, but I still get about 10-20 frames per second. I only have 512mb of RAM. If I bought another 512 to make it a gig, would it help my lag and framerate?..

Answer 1

yes adding more ram will help, i have ran WoW on a system with a 128mb ATi 9600 card and adding 1gig of ram maid a difference, but you are still limited by the pci bus as to how high your fps will get, it will help with loads adding more ram and will help stop freezes durring gameplay but it will still get skippy video lag. most people are not capable of figuring out the difference between system lag and video card lag and yes there is a huge difference, it be like running WoW on a system with a 512mb ggdr4 pcie card but only having 512mb of system ram, just because you have a high end video card doesnt mean your system isnt going to get sloppy due to your system ram being low. The way to tell the difference is: when you are playing, if the game pasuses for a few seconds then keeps on going, that means you need system ram or a faster cpu to send the information, If the game has slow fps and skips steadily then your video card is the problem, altho both go hand and hand together. if you do not have enough cpu and ram to feed the information to your video card, then your video card will not have enough comming to it to keep it actively working and it will bottleneck. same aplies for your pci bus card, even if your system is fast, that pci bus is not fast enough to recieve the data without bottlenecking on a Dirext X9 game such as WoW

Answer 2

128mb pci card just doesn't have the memory bandwidth to the socket for games like wow. You would be better off getting an pcie or agp card at the least. The Ram would make your computer run a little bit faster more likely.....but a video card on a socket made for lots of data transfer(PCIe, AGP) would be better for your FPS.

Answer 3

With only a 128mb Video Card it may help you pick up a couple frames here and there, but not much. Since most of the graphics work is going to be done using the Graphics Card's own GPU and RAM built onto that card, you're not going to get much of a performance increase.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The increase of memory to 1GB or more would certainly help somewhat.

You may also want to replace your graphics card with a 256MB type, or more if you can afford it. Sell your ATI card on Craigslist, then add a bibt more money to get the 256MB card.....

Answer 6

i might want to also propose improving the processor, 2.a million gHz isn't a lot (till you've twin center or center 2 duo, then it really is adequate), alongside with increasing the RAM. the video card is sturdy adequate, yet in case you could, attempt to get it upgraded.

Answer 7

Only by another 'small' margin, your bottleneck is the graphics card.