ATI Graphics stuttering

Hey guys, I recently just got a new hard drive back from Toshiba finally, so my system is up and running again. However, even though I have everything updated from Microsoft as well as the latest drivers, whenever I play World of Warcraft, my graphics intermittently stutter. I've ran multiple virus scans as well as CCleaner every day. I've also defragmented my computer multiple times as well as the external hard drive which WoW is playing from. Furthermore, I reforrmatted the external hard drive to NTFS and defragmented it again. I've upgraded the firmware on my Linksys router, as well as added the TcpAckFrequency edit to the registry for the latency fix. I'm really at a loss of options here. Any advice would be awesome. Thanks guys. Also, none of the ATI drivers that I download from ATI will work on my computer in spite of the fact that my computer has an ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics card with 256 MB inside of it. It's really starting to be annoying since I hear that the hotfix for the stuttering is located inside of these drivers. It's almost like AMD is playing a trick on us. Sincerely, eharri2

What is the make and model of the laptop? The laptop manufacturer should be the source of drivers and not ATI/AMD. Were you able to play these games previously on this laptop? From your external drive? What exactly happened to your internal hard drive and how was it resolved? Have you tried loading WoW onto your internal drive? This would be a simple test to test if your issue is the USB connection rather than anything else. …

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