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3/6/2012 4:37:00 PM
On 3/6/2012 7:17 AM, Shammy wrote:
> I'm running wow on medium settings on my PC and everything is ok untill
> I come in a main city at peek hours or I have a big fight in BG/raid
> when my fps drops around 10 FPS. With this same setup when I'm alone I
> have 90 FPS... but this is a multiplayer game and you are never
> alone.... My PC is a q6600 @ 3 GHz quad core with 6 GB ram and geforce
> 550 ti.
> I recently bought a new graphics card that is at least 3 times faster
> than my old one was and my gain was 10% more FPS.
>
> Yesterday I copied wow to an external drive and took it to a friend who
> has just put together a brand new pc last week, it's an AMD 8 core
> processor, 8 GB ddr3, ati radeon 6870 2 GB ram.
> It's a great PC that runs Battlefield 3 (a new game with amazing
> graphics and huge open spaces) at 50 fps on ultra settings.
>
> So first I tried wow in orgrimmar on ultra and I barely had 25 fps, then
> I joined isle of conquest BG and there was a fight of not more than 15
> vs 15 and when spells started to be cast fps dropped to 12 fps... I
> checked the processor load and like 1 core was almost on full another 1
> was at 50% and all the rest wasnt even utilized... and that is the 64
> bit wow... the 32 bit one works even worse.
>
> I really can't find what could be the bottleneck in this setup.
>
> Even when I put same settings on the new pc from what I use on my 5 year
> old PC I get like 10 fps imporvement at most.
>
> As far as I can tell there is no PC currently on the market that can run
> wow above 25 fps on ultra in all conditions (25 man raid or big fights
> in 40 man BG).
> Is it normal that a game that was made in 2004 can't run smoothly on a
> brand new top of the line PC?
I dunno - mines close and it's over a year old...I run WoW on full ultra
(except sunbeam shafts which are on medium for some reason - Not sure
when I did that but I haven't changed it since setting up) I get 40-50
regularly in SW and Org during all times. I get standard about 30 in
LFR 25 man DS, however I will say that when all crap breaks loose on
certain bosses, it sometimes drops to just over 20ish. Funny, that it
seems to be the second boss of the first half that puts the most strain
on my frame rates (when he casts something and everything starts getting
dark and everyone is taking damage)
Maybe it's something with a bottleneck of the data getting back and
forth from the server(s) to your PC that could be it? Probably not, but
I'm no PC expert. My latency 95% of the time sits around 50, and even
the one time there was an issue and it jumped all the way up to 450,
frame rates were smooth... Don't know what it could be - Like I said, my
systems 1-1/2 years old. I copied my relevant data below off my PC...
Intel Core i7-870 (8MB cache, 2.93GHz)
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM @ 1333MHz - 4DIMMS
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5
1 TB - 7200RPM SATA 3.0 Gb/s 16MB Cache
running 64Bit Win 7