New NVidia Drivers Released for WoW Issue
by Mike D'Anna 
Mar 22nd 2006 at 9:00AM
For those of you GForce 6800/6600 GT users who have
been experiencing performance issues while playing WoW, NVidia has released a fix for the problem, which apparently stemmed
from Blizzard's end. 'GeForce 6800/6600 GT: Slow performance with World of Warcraft in SLI mode. This is not an NVIDIA bug, but instead the result of a recent patch for World of Warcraft to reduce mouse lag on slower computers by synchronizing the GPU(s). This change is unnecessary for NVIDIA users, and particularly for users with SLI configurations. For optimal performance when playing World of Warcraft in SLI mode:
• Disable vertical sync within the World of Warcraft in-game video options.
• Enable "hardware mouse" acceleration and disable "smooth mouse" within the World of Warcraft in-game video options.
Smooth mouse reduces mouse lag when the frame rate is low and hardware mouse is disabled.'
The new drivers can be downloaded from NVidia.com.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
obo Mar 22nd 2006 11:03PM
Ok... I hope it fixes all the same problems I have on my single 6600GT that's not in SLI mode, too. I've been running without vsync since 1.9 because of this crap.