Vista, TS, and WoW

[seswatha]

I have a brand new computer running Vista. When I run TS and World of Warcraft, the whole thing crashes. Sometimes it's instant, but I've gotten TS to run for a max of about 30 minutes. Any ideas what the problem is?

[BHKai]

Are you running it compatible for xp and as an administrator?

[seswatha]

I may the recommended changes with little to no effect. I still crash at random, usually within the first 10 minutes of running both programs together. Any other ideas?

[BHKai]

What are your computer specs?

[wesleyroyer]

I am also running vista HomePremium on a machine I built, and this happened to me alot. Not with WoW but in any game. I figured it was my memory so I unmounted all my virtual drives (Power & Magic ISO), closed all background apps (AVG, People near me, Windows messenger, etc.) and it still happened. Then I thought it was my video card, so i got two nVidia GeForce 6600s running on SLI single monitor w/ aftermarket GPU cooling system and it still didn't work! grrr! So at this point I think it is just incompatibility issues with Vista. If you can, stick with XP until next year when DX10 comes and all the games will be releasing Vista patches and Vista hardware drivers. Check to make sure that all your drivers (especially video card & motherboard) are made for Vista 32 (unless you're running in 64-bit). Hope this helped!

Wesley

[wesleyroyer]

lol oops DirectX 10 is out already, but the first game to use it (Crysis) comes out i think this July. The dX10 Graphics cards are freaking expensive though! lol.

[seswatha]

Here's all the specs. Thanks, BHKai and wesleyroyer, for trying to help!
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XPS 210 Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6600 (4MB L2 Cache,2.4GHz,1066 FSB)

Memory 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs

Monitors 20 inch UltraSharp™ 2007WFP Widescreen Digital Flat Panel

Video Cards 256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro

Hard Drives 320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™

Operating System Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium

Network Card Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet

Sound Cards Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio

Speakers Dell A525 30 Watt 2.1 Stereo Speakers with Subwoofer

[DrArkaneX]

Call XPS Technical support. Even though it sounds like a hardware issue, they may have a heads up on a vista incompatibility with VoIP programs and such, never hurts to give it a try.. Dell tech will at least give a 10 minute shot at it...

[seswatha]

I've also checked Vista forums and based on their info, made the following changes to no avail:
run TS as admin (as suggested here also)
run WoW as admin
run TS on direct (not wave)
set compatibility on both to XP, Service pack 2

[cbb1430]

Sorry to jump in like this...
Seswatha, you may want to check and see if your video card is causing the problem... when my husband started playing WoW on Vista, the card caused the computer to crash--but only after a few weeks of playing and not when he first started with it. (We haven't added voice chat yet--that's why I'm on here, to look for options).

Through FAQ's or something on Blizzard, I found that with Vista you need a MINIMUM of 1gb RAM on your video card... I swapped out the video card and he hasn't had a problem since. It was possibly another gaming site tho. Look on Blizzard's site to see what they are saying to be sure.

Good luck