Unexplained lag spikes in WoW

[joe0001]

Hi, I am receiving some very bad lag in WoW, literally 0-1 fps for an idea of what this is like-imagine taking 1minute to turn your character around. This is not random it happens when I am in a city or near alot of players such as a raid. With that being said it would seem as though it is an internet affair but my ms is fast and at a very low 256.

When I am not near players my fps is from 50-80 which is 'perfect' gameplay, all my settings are on super low, vertical split disabled as well as triple buffering.
I have notice that if I am far and i face a congested area of players i lag, If I were to get in that area and manage to turn to not face the players, I am playing perfectly again, then turn back around same problem! THAT makes me mad.
Please Help.

My system:
Monitor 60Hz
Cpu is Intel Celeron 3.46Ghz (always at 100% during incident)
250gb HDD
2.5GB DDR2 Ram, pc only recognises 2GB of it though 667Mhz speed
512mb Nvidia Video Graphic Card

 

[Per Hansson]

If you have any addons installed you should first try disabling them all to see if it makes a difference, if not;
Make sure you have the latest drivers for all your hardware (Especially the integrated NIC controller on your mainboard)

And also update your graphics drivers
nVidia drivers; http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

 

[Marty7n]

close all runing programs that dont need to be runing!ctr,alt + Delete,go into task manager through control panel either,should help a little bit!

 

[Cota]

I blame Blizzard

 

[g4mer]

Empty Cache and WTF folder maybe.

 

[TECHwizard]

I blame Blizzard

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[teklord]

I lag too and my system is high end. It has to do with server lag, there is no avoiding it except to go to a less populated server. There are only so many people that can be on a server at once and when that number is exceeded, the lag comes. It is that way in every online game. I never lag when I use Dungeon Finder and I am with 4 others for a 5 person party because 5 people in that area is the max.