A G80 only problem
It seems World of
Warcraft is having problems with latest Nvidia cards. Geforce 8800 GTX and GTS
models are affected by this bug and its getting pretty ugly for WOW players.
People are paying top dollar for high end card but it seems that is too much for
WOW to handle.
We tried to play World
of Warcraft on Core 2 Duo 6600, 2GB of memory and 8800 GTX and we are sad to
report that game is crashing all over the place. The setup works perfectly
stable in other games. We tried various versions of drivers but we got same result,
constant crashing and unplayable game.
As we suspected our case isn't isolated one and we decided to visit Nvidia's
and Blizzard's forums. On Blizzards forum we found out that Blizzard recommends
lowering AA from 16/8 or 4X to 2X only. For some that solution worked but in
our case game still crashed on same parts of the map. Like in Skettis, Terokkar
forest and few other places with forest.
Both Nvidia and
Blizzard are aware of this problem but none of them want to confess officially.
For time being if you play World of Warcraft it would be best to avoid those
two cards as its waste of money as the game doesn’t work well with the high end
card like G80 series.
Nvidia logo at bottom
of screen looks funny since the game works fine on ATI cards and it has so many
problems compared to Nvidia ones. So far Nvidia doesn't want to address this
problem and its throwing ball to Blizzard which doesn't seem to care much about
this problem. We urge Nvidia and Blizzard to work together and fix this
crashing problem.
