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Any WOW WOD benchmarks anywhere?
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I don't think you will find any as the graphic engine is pretty much unchanged except slightly better models but the engine moving it is the same old one, it would be a bit like asking Half Life 2 benchmark in 2014.
I still think that it is pretty game but surely a refreshed engine wouldn't have been a bad thing!
I still think that it is pretty game but surely a refreshed engine wouldn't have been a bad thing!
I was just wondering as my fx8320 and r9280 with everything on max sometimes hits fps as low as 30 in areas of pvp battles etc . I just thought it would handle wow a bit better than that being as BF4 on full max doesn't drop below 40fps.
But then again. I've heard nvidia gpus / intel cpus handle wow a lot better than amd.
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your rig should manage it fine i cant see it struggling with WOW i know they are bringing a new expantion but as said above they will be using the same engine but with a few tweeks
WoW engine had a somewhat of a big overhaul with WoD which has changed the AA options and implementation.
As always, WoW runs better on nVidia but the engine is still more the capable of scaling down to lesser hardware....just not as much as it used to with the recent changes. WoD runs much better on new hardware but has sacrificed it's ability to run on really old gear.
Ignore all the people who are under the impression you can run WoW with an 8Mb VGA board from the 90s because they are clueless. WoW is a very demanding engine if you want the eye candy turned on. I can get 2 x 780TIs in SLI at 1,1150Mhz core clocks and 80% usage to achieve 100+FPS required on a high Hz monitor.
Don't ignore the CPU requirements either - While the FX8320 is highly threaded, Wow is not. The relatively poor IPC of the 8xxx series is not the best match-up to a single threaded game. (WoW does run multiple threads but is not truly multi-threaded)
As always, WoW runs better on nVidia but the engine is still more the capable of scaling down to lesser hardware....just not as much as it used to with the recent changes. WoD runs much better on new hardware but has sacrificed it's ability to run on really old gear.
Ignore all the people who are under the impression you can run WoW with an 8Mb VGA board from the 90s because they are clueless. WoW is a very demanding engine if you want the eye candy turned on. I can get 2 x 780TIs in SLI at 1,1150Mhz core clocks and 80% usage to achieve 100+FPS required on a high Hz monitor.
Don't ignore the CPU requirements either - While the FX8320 is highly threaded, Wow is not. The relatively poor IPC of the 8xxx series is not the best match-up to a single threaded game. (WoW does run multiple threads but is not truly multi-threaded)
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Doesn't that apply to any game then if you're still gaming 10 years later? No wonder gaming still has a stigma attached to it with comments like that.
Yep they did upgrade it but it wasn't an overhaul of the whole engine, however I think it works well for the game it is and again it has to run on low rigs too... It is not a single player or FPS so I think it works pretty well! IMHO
From the changes I can notice, the AA is now post AA only, I use CMAA and I think it looks really good.
For some reason the game looks a LOT better on my 970 than it did on my R9 290 for some reason, I don't know if there are some nvidia optimisations going on?
The character models have all been overhauled and the new questing areas all have much nicer looking textures and vast amounts of plants/grass etc.
I do remember reading somewhere that the engine would be able to handle more threads, I will fire up WoW and the task manager later and tell you how many threads it can make use of on my 5820k.
For some reason the game looks a LOT better on my 970 than it did on my R9 290 for some reason, I don't know if there are some nvidia optimisations going on?
The character models have all been overhauled and the new questing areas all have much nicer looking textures and vast amounts of plants/grass etc.
I do remember reading somewhere that the engine would be able to handle more threads, I will fire up WoW and the task manager later and tell you how many threads it can make use of on my 5820k.
I run WOW on everything maximum Everywhere is solid 100 FPS with 3930k, 780TI, 16GB however in places like Ashran where there is 100 people and mobs it's impossible to sustain anything above 30 FPS personally there's just too much going on.
Should be!
That's probably why it got a refreshed engine with the new expansion
Hence why the CPU requirements have shot up and the replacement of MSAA with FXAA/CMAA with SSAA to follow.
Frame limiter?