WoWeekend

[nockergeek]

My new parts arrived on Friday, and I had them in the computer before I left for my Friday night Shadowrun game. I also gave the computer a thorough clean-out to get any accumulated dust out... and oh, was there a lot of it. I had quite a bit to clean out of the fins of my CPU heatsink. A little canned air, though, and all was good. Happy side effect - the CPU runs about 6 degrees cooler at idle.

The video card gave me a bit more trouble than I'd like, but that was all a driver issue. I ended up running Catalyst 7.7 instead of 8.3, as the performance on my old AGP card was a bit better. I'm a little disappointed by some of the framerates - only about 27-30 FPS in Honor Hold, and 17-20 in Shattrath, but I'm told that Shattrath is hell on far greater PCs than mine. Out in the great wide open, though, I'm averaging about 48, which is a big improvement. I think I've about hit the limit on how far I can take this machine without going Dual Core on the processor, which is not happening anytime soon.

I also managed to get a Hellfire Ramparts run with my guild on Saturday. My first instance run in a year and a half... and oh, am I rusty. I'd say that I'm between 50% and 75% as effective as I once was, and it doesn't help that everything seems generally tougher in Outland (which explains why the gear is that much better). I imagine it'll be like riding a bicycle, though - I'll get back up to speed with a couple more runs. There's still two more pieces of gear that I want from the Ramparts, and a few more from quests I have in the zone at large.

I also have WoW on our laptop, and I have only one thing to say - touchpads suck for playing WoW. I need to get a lapdesk with enough room for a mouse.

Comments

[evildennis.livejournal.com]

I pretty much only play WoW (when I do) on my laptop, and yeah, I couldn't play the game without a mouse. Normally I have a little book, or chair or something to hold a mousepad if I'm at Dan and Richard's, or I just use a table at home, but yeah. Can't stand using the touchpad for mousing in WoW.

[laudre.livejournal.com]

I think it took me all of three seconds to decide that if I was playing games on my laptop, a mouse was essential.

Is Dead Peasants Society your guild? 'Cause if so, that's an awesome name :).

[nockergeek.livejournal.com]

It is my guild, indeed. I'm very proud of coming up with that name. :)

[laudre.livejournal.com]

Is this an undead guild? It would be wildly appropriate :).

[nockergeek.livejournal.com]

Nope; Alliance guild. We have our Horde alts in the Undead Peasants Society (which reminds me that I need to rejoin that one).

And I am mesmerized by the orc in your icon...

[laudre.livejournal.com]

That's why I play orcs more than anything else, and females. I like having my eye candy when I play :).

Undead Peasants Society. I like that, too :).

[nockergeek.livejournal.com]

Well, if you ever find yourself on Khaz Modan, you're welcome to join either. :)

And gotta love the eye candy. I approve, sir. Of course, there's a lot of good non-orc eye candy too. :)