Low Framerate in WoW

Gackt · 14 Feb 2009 at 15:37

Hey all,

I have by no means a terrible system, it's not the greatest, but I should easily be getting 30+ fps in World of Warcraft, and yet, for some reason I seem to be averaging around 6. :/

I installed the latest drivers and I seem to have around 16-20 in Outland (Shadowmoon Valley to be precise) but this seems rather low. :/

My specs are:

E2200 @ stock (yeah, I know, sucks, but it won't overclock)
4gb DDR2 RAM
8800GTX
Vista-64

As I said, by no means spectacular, but surely I should be getting at least 30-40 at 1920x1200?

Gackt · 14 Feb 2009 at 15:50

I was using a somewhat old version before, as I needed to go back for Age of Conan when I played that. I guess I could try a set of drivers in between them and the new ones.

Gackt · 14 Feb 2009 at 16:04

Kezmo said:
somethings not right there, have you tried downloading the latest drivers, uninstalling the old drivers, running driver sweeper and installing the new drivers, also knock shadows down 1 notch from top setting.
i used to play on a 1920x1200 at 1680x1050 windowed max settings with 4xAA and max af. min fps was around 20 in Dalaran.
Im on Vista 64 also.

Yeah, I uninstalled, DriverCleaned, and then install the new ones. A small improvement was noticed.

I just knocked down the shadows a notch, and it seems to have helped a little, but I'm still getting under 30. I'll point out that I'm Windowed mode, but when I go to fullscreen, it might improve it by a single fps.

Gackt · 15 Feb 2009 at 22:47

I tried turning down the shadows, one notch gives a few fps, knocking it all the way down doesn't really do much. I've tried turning down all the settings, playing it in FullScreen mode doesn't work either. It's really quite annoying. :/

I arrived in Howling Fjord, and I arrived with 1.7 frames a second, and then flying to Kamagua had an average of about 6. :/

Gackt · 18 Feb 2009 at 15:31

Well, today I found that when I used Skype, my framerate dropped to about 9-13. So it seems like that's the culprit, although it's not CPU usage as that remains low.

Gackt · 18 Feb 2009 at 23:07

Knubje said:
8800 Drivers are always dodgy. I installed the newest ones for my card and sent Source games a bit crazy.

Just roll back to an older set and you should be fine (I think).

I shall try using an older set, although I was actually using an older set when I was first experiencing the problems.

Any suspicious items in your process list?

Not that I can see, no. :/

I run Skype and wow on a system of a lesser spec than yours (AMD 64 3400, 2gb DDR, 512mb 7600GT) and wow runs fine, only really see a drop in frames in big cities etc, but still very very playable.

Hmm, maybe there's something else going on then..