Well, I installed World of Warcraft onto my laptop. Everything pretty much was fine until I tried to play it. I would log in, get to the server select, get to the character page, try to create a character, and about 45 seconds into it the game freezes up and refuses to do anything (except play the music). Basically all I can do it try to close it out (Windows says it isn't responding) or just restart the computer. Also, when I try to login, I notice the graphics are distorted and very pixelated, followed by the freeze-up once again shortly into game access. In short, before I can even start playing, my laptop says "Um, no", and dies.

My graphics card is a GeForce FX go5600, and to top off the situation, I can't find drivers for it on the nVidia site.

The Microsoft Game Advisor also says my machine should be able to play the game with no problems. Alas, this isn't true.

Any suggestions to get it to run properly?

Is your laptop overheated? Does it do the samething when you play other games besides WoW?? If only WoW does it, then probally you need a driver update.. Try go back to the manufacture website of your laptop and download the updated driver from there... Second choice would be look up at google/yahoo for "geforce fx go5600 driver"...

TMP-Man

Asus A7V classic rev 1.05
Athlon XP 2100+ @ 130x17 = 2209Mhz 1.81v
768MB PC133 RAM @ 130Mhz 2-2-2
40GB 540RPM + 120GB 7200RPM HD
128MB Radeon 9500 mod 9700 @ 360/585

1. No, I doubt it's overheated.... I've had the cooler fan running the entire time while trying to play.. Heck, it's always on.

2. No, it plays Age of Empires II fine. I believe it's just WoW.

3. I went back to nVidia's site... according to it, my card pretty much doesn't exist. Closest I got was a GeForce FX 5600, and it said it wasn't the same and the driver wasn't compatible.

I've looked all over google for drivers to no avail. Maybe I'm just missing something or doing something wrong?

to be honest, the power need to play WoW is ALOT more then AOE2

I'll tell u ur prob laptops are gay and do stupid unexplained things..

NVIDIA recommend you should download the latest drivers from your manufacturers website. I've had a look at Sony's driver update and here are a couple of hyperlinks for the original and latest drivers for a Sony VAIO PCG-GRT390ZPG 3.2 GHz Pentium 4-M Laptop with the same graphics card

http://esupport.sony.com/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=PCGGRT390ZP&upd_id=1380&os_id=7

http://esupport.sony.com/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=PCGGRT390ZP&upd_id=1532&os_id=7

either these might be of help or you can enter your model number using their search system (link below)

http://esupport.sony.com/perl/select-system.pl?DIRECTOR=DRIVER&PRODTYPE=24

this should hopefully answer your problem ; )