installed world of warcraft, installation went great. Started playing the
game and about every 20 seconds or so the screen flashes black and lags up.
then it comes back on. I minimized it and there was a error message saying
the graphics driver failed but has succesfully restarted. The problem is it
does this over and over again. It is a brand new toshiba laptop with 2g ram
and 1.6 mhz proccessor. any idea what to do?

"Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> installed world of warcraft, installation went great. Started playing the
> game and about every 20 seconds or so the screen flashes black and lags
> up.
> then it comes back on. I minimized it and there was a error message saying
> the graphics driver failed but has succesfully restarted. The problem is
> it
> does this over and over again. It is a brand new toshiba laptop with 2g
> ram
> and 1.6 mhz proccessor. any idea what to do?

Lemme guess an nVidia graphics card? Have to wait for nVidia to get
themselves together.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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Graphics have been an issue with Vista, but it's a problem with the
drivers from the manufacturer. ATI has been fairly good with theirs,
however NVIDIA has a LOT of work to go to get a good, stable driver out.

I guess it's a waiting game, at the moment. But, with all the pressure,
it shouldn't be too long of a wait!

Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
http://www.vistarip.com



Rob wrote:
> installed world of warcraft, installation went great. Started playing the
> game and about every 20 seconds or so the screen flashes black and lags up.
> then it comes back on. I minimized it and there was a error message saying
> the graphics driver failed but has succesfully restarted. The problem is it
> does this over and over again. It is a brand new toshiba laptop with 2g ram
> and 1.6 mhz proccessor. any idea what to do?