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Ok guys im fed up with my own dcing issue and im done wipeing ppl , but i dont have a clue on how to fix it soo im asking for any help that you guys can give .



1. My computer only DCs when a fight starts or during a Heroism.... and when thiers alot of things going on in the raid.
2. all my settings are down to the lowest they can be without crippleing my raid visability.
3. I need a way to fix it without totally Fing up my already gimp PC.
4. Its really funny how it works some nights and dosent work others.....
5. never really gives me any problems in 10man at all and unlike most other ppl my computer dosent ever have a probelm runing anything outside of raids.. dala,events, etc....
6. My UI is simple as hell and i really only have the required addons to raid and they are updated all the time they can be.

If theirs a way to fix this then plz sent a tell in the game or on this forum, and make sure its detaild as hell cuase im not very good with computers but im not a idiot with them.
Any help is appreciated

First, we probably need to find out what kind of system you have. If you use Windows XP, right click My Computer and select Properties. Tell us what it says under Computer:

If its Vista, go to the start menu and right-click Computer and select properties. Basically, what's your processor speed and RAM.

How old is the computer? Have you gotten rid of non-essential programs?

Hey there, melly here, I was once the queen king of DC, and its most likely caused by either a) your cable/dsl modem, b) your router, c) your network card settings/driver.

I can't really say which until, as misao said, we know what setup you have. So, what type of internet do you have, router, network card. is it Ethernet or wireless.. etc.


for me back in the day it was a crappy DSL modem, turns out that the "better" modem they have wasn't better for WoW and once I got the no frills one I was golden!




P.S. there is an awesome program that can help you diagnose network probs too. (i recommend it for anyone actually) called Wireshark

ok heres some info i can get
its a Vista and its wired desktop

Model: Inspiron 530
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz 2.20 GHz
Memory (RAM): 2.00 GB
System type: 32-bit Operating System

Adding memory would help a lot, 2MB ram is bare minimum.

You can get a free tool to check what memory is available here: http://www.crucial.com

I bolded the important parts. The Vista operating system is a memory hog. It + the other stuff your computer normally uses is about 1GB of RAM. So you have 1 GB free for WoW. With a 32 bit operating system, your computer can only support up to 4GB of RAM. Because you use (assuming the computer I found is yours) dual channel memory you need to get memory that is also dual channel (I'll explain why below). But it really depends on how your RAM is set up and how many free slots you have.

http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/dell-i ... l?tag=rnav Is this your computer?

The important info is in the specifications section, under RAM:



The bolded stuff is the information you will need to find the correct RAM for your system. If you get the wrong kind it either won't fit into the RAM slots or the computer will get errors when it tries to boot. I searched for this RAM on newegg and found this (among other):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820146526

The underlined part is where my knowledge of hardware is a little lacking. Since the memory you are using is dual channel, I am not sure exactly what you need to do to maintain it when adding new memory. The memory I selected is dual channel, so I'm thinking that it SHOULD be ok. Basically, in dual channel memory, two sticks of RAM help each other out. If you add a third stick to a system with dual memory, it makes all the memory sticks work by themselves (so, you could DECREASE your performance if you just bought any old RAM because it would mess up the memory already in there). Actual technicians can tell me if I'm just talking out of my @$$ at this point or am actually clueless.

TLDR: Get the memory from New Egg and put it in your computer. If it slows you down, you need to get a technician to set the new memory up for dual channel (how they do it or if they need to, I don't know)

thanks for alll the help Misao ill get on it asap

You won't need to do anything to setup the memory, just install and it will already be configured for dual memory.

Next, if you are still not seeing the performance you want, I would upgrade to Windows 7 from Vista, the performance boost will be noticeable. You can also upgrade to Windows 7 64bit version which is even faster and more efficient with memory.

The other option you have may be to upgrade your video card. If you have the stock version, it has 256mb of memory. There are 512mb and larger that are quite inexpensive and perform well.

So, did the extra RAM help at all?

cant get it till i get a job, after i grad.... i tried to get my mom to get it but she says that shes thinking about getting me a car insted and that i shouldent waste money on computer stuff