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WOW Video Settings For G5
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I have a G5 Imac with the 20inch monitor. What are the best video settings for WOW? Thanks.
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As high as you can set them without getting too laggy. Experiment.
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I was experimenting. Wanted to take the easy route and have someone here give me a good set.
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Originally Posted by atlcane
I was experimenting. Wanted to take the easy route and have someone here give me a good set.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. 
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Originally Posted by The iMac Man
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.
The many lessons one must learn to survive in the WOW. 
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Heh, and in WoW, said man pretty much has to spend a lifetime fishing to get that food!
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Well, running at the native res is a must, else 't'will look like ass.
For excellent performance, the environment and terrain distances should be set as low as possible; it greatly diminishes the immersiveness of the world imho, but it will save you from slideshowing throughout most of the game. The only time I turned my viewing distances to high was when I kept running into the Scarlet Courier in Eastern Plaguelands, lol. This also goes for the anisotropic filtering setting.
And as anyone knows, no tweaking of settings will save you from the hell of Ironforge...
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Terrain distance has the biggest effect. Most of the other settings don't make much difference, many make none at all.
World of Warcraft eats RAM like crazy. My wife's stock iMac G5 had a lot of lag in Ironforge and on the griffon. I got her another gig of RAM (for a total of 1.5 GB), and now there's no lag in Ironforge (!) and griffon rides are almost always smooth. I guess loading thousands of terrain and character textures requires beaucoup bytes!
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The first 1/2 to 3/4 of the terrain distance bar don't make much difference. Beyond that I notice a lot of slow down on my G5. I can't really tell the difference beyond that anyway.
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