Catriona R
12/15/2011 9:53:00 PM
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:23:55 +0100, "Shammy" <none@nothing.com> wrote:
>My PC is:
>
>Intel Q6600 overclocked from 2400 to 3000 MHz
>6 GB RAM
>nVidia 550 ti graphics
>Win 7 64 bit.
>
>I play wow on medium settings and I get barely 27 fps in orgrimmar when
>looking at like 20 people or less (looking at the main AH).
>When I join a BG like AV/IoC and there are more than 20 people casting
>spells my fps drops to 10 or so...
>Only when I go somewhere without people and look at a floor or something I
>get 100 fps.
>When I look at my task manager I see my 4 cores are not even at 50% ever,
>they are at 30-40% or so...
>I had a much older graphics card and when I got a new one (the 1 I have now)
>wow fps improved so little it wasnt even worth it (for wow) for 3-5 fps.
>
>I also play battlefield 3 and this is a new game (1 month old) and the
>graphics in that game are just amazing, and in BF3 I'm playing on high and I
>have between 27-35 fps but the game has insane graphics... on the other hand
>when I play BF3 all 4 proc cores are on 100%.
>
>Since wow is so processor dependant why isnt it using the processor 100% and
>giving decent performance? If I can play BF3 on high then wow should work on
>ultra with 100 fps.
Afraid I can't be useful on the tech side of things but I've got
similar problems - WoW just seems intensive on everything, I guess, no
matter what I upgrade, something else is holding it back. My pc
overall isn't that old (3 years but it was very good when I bought
it), I replaced the graphics card a year ago and, um... well. So
little visible difference I felt I'd wasted my money, only bonus was
going up a screen res when I also replaced my monitor. It runs "ok" on
good level graphics, but running two clients, or going anywhere
populated (Org main AH/bank area lol - I live in the tauren part of
town as a result) means really low fps and pretty much grinding to a
halt if I'm running two copies of the game, which I do quite often,
sigh.
I *have* just made a sigificant improvement by getting a SSD and
putting my WoW folder on that instead of my old hard drive. Has only
improved framerates a little (put everything up to ultra for a minute,
regretted that one fast and put it back to good!) but load times, oh
wow. I timed my old hard drive install, from hitting enter world to
loading, and the fog dispersing so I can see everything: 1m25s. Same
on the SSD: 17s. Even running two clients, it's so very much faster,
I'm way happy with that. it's also improved somewhat in busy areas, in
that I can actually go to the front of Org without it turning into a
slideshow - if I'm running *one* client, anyway, two is a bit much
still. So yeah, not a big framerate buff but it's massive for slow
loadscreens anyway.
Guess I'll have to go for new CPU next, I think that's my bottleneck
regarding framerates, my RAM and motherboard could use a look too so
someday (not too soon, I'm out of money after many recent expenses!)
I'll do all three at once and pray that fixes it - I would *love* to
run graphics on ultra, whenever I try the game looks fantastic, it's
just not very playable... :-P
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