Hi guys,

Am not the most technical minded person so please try not to be too mean :p

Ok so i am currently playing on a machine that has (i think)

AMD Sempron processor 3100+ (???)
1.80GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM
Nvidia Gforce 6200 Graphics card (does that sound right?)
and my monitor is 24" IIyama E2407HDSD Widescreen LCD, 1920 x 1080, 2ms, DVI/VGA - 1080p HD Ready.

Non of that means much to me hopefully it tells a more technical minded person what my machine is capable of.

What is the best resolution for me to use when playing wow (I can choose from:
 720x576, 800x600, 960x600, 1024x768, 1280x720, 1280x768, 1152x864, 1280x800, 1360x768, 1280x 960, 1440x900, 1280x1024, 1600x900, 1680x1050 or 1920x1080 - several of these repeated but have (Wide) next to them?)

also what video settings should i set to gain the full potential my computer is capable of to get the best results?  at the moment when i run and stuff the screen is a little jerky and movement a little flickery like its missing a few frames out here and there.

Sorry about the long winded post but i know that the more info i give about my machine the better chance someone has of helping.....it just doesnt help that i know little about computers.  Any advice would be very much appriciated.

Thanks.

The answer to your first question is play the resolution of your LCD. LCD's are based as 1 pixel = 1 dot.. That is why they all have their "native" resolution which is advertised.. Sure, it supports other resolutions that are lower, but then you may have things such as 1 pixel = 1.5 dots and thus the image will look blurry and distorted.

The video settings is more personal tweaking. With most of the options, you will see in the tooltip things like "increasing this may lower performance" or "fps".. From what it sounds like, you should reduce some things so that you can increase your fps while will make things run a lot smoother. By the way, FPS = frames per second. The higher it is, the smoother things will be.

Cheers ... thanks for the advice. i shall try.

There is another limitation you face that may also have the same effects you described ... memory.  1gb of memory is really not enough to run such a graphic intenisive program.  While playing with the vido settings may gain a little performance, your biggest gain will be from adding more memory.  At least 2 gb if possible up to 4gb. 

Which for clarification, I am referring to the system memory, which is pretty easy to upgrade and not very expensive.