Do you crash a lot after last patch. Then this is what I did...

[Therania]

First of all I run.

GeForce 6600GT
Athlon 2000XP, 1 GB ram

Nvidia 66.93 is unstable with WoW so you need eithe rollback to 61.XX or upgrade to newest 71.84, just released on NVidia.

The WDB and WTF directories in your installation directory contain cache data. This have to be deleted for every patch. If you dont you will get a message (on crashing and burning) Unkown entity.

I tried running the game in 1280x960 but kept crashing. So the only thing that works for me is. 1024x768 same refresh as desktop. and disabling antialiasing and smooth shadows.

However if I did this, it seem reasonable stable...

regards

[Durak]

I have had no problems.

Sometimes that patch download can contain errors though.

But since you changed drivers and it worked, maybe you didnt have that problem

[Therania]

Umm Im not sure I shold write this...

Digging into the crash problem, I realized that I had upgraded my processor but not upped the voltage. So I did that, heat is better than crashes me thought...

Result is that my comp do not anymore bluescreen on boot, did that very infrequent. It did make the system more stable but it did not totally cure the problem.

One can see that when running WoW in graphics card hard environments you can get voltage dips, which means that if it go below a certain level the comp will just shutdown. Measuring this is a ... and after upping the voltage a bit, could not really upp it too much since my comp had some alarming heat tendencies.

I still get dips but not as bad.

However to end this rambling, I started to run the game in windowed mode. That stopped all crashing. No visible performance hits or problems. OpenGL did also stop crashing but looked like ...

A word of caution:

DO NOT CHANGE BIOS PARAMETERS UNLESS YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU DO.
YOUR COMP WILL SELF DESTRUCT...

If you change the voltage, you have to make sure that the processor do not overheat and breaks.

Good luck.

[Krag]

Hmm I've had my machine shutdown a couple of times randomly which was not heat related. COuld have been voltage, hadn't thought of that. Will make sure i monitor it.
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[Therania]

There are 2 things that can go wrong basically.

Overall wattage is too large, had this with my 1.4 GHz Thunderbird
-> Solution buy a larger powersupply

Individual wattage of one unit is peaking. You can monitor this with motherboard monitor or any similar software. This is basically the overclocking dilemma.
-> Buy more cooling and raise core voltage.

Zalman have a very nice water cooling system, ultra silent, that I seriously plan on trying out.

regards