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Nvidia 480 & WoW

Robert

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My brother-in-law is having serious performance issues with WoW and his 480.

He's using the latest drivers along with a Q6600 @ 3ghz at 1920*1080.

He's getting between 15-40fps in Northrend.

Has anyone else experienced this?
 
Aren't performance issues with WoW usually related to the servers?

Also a 480 just for WoW with only a Q6600??!!! Who's been giving him advice:rolleyes:
 
Are his motherboard drivers correctly installed? that can also halve your fps in many games and he should try with various other Nvidia drivers just to see if there's any mass gains but i do think it's driver related with either of these.

The cpu does bottleneck it but his performance should at least be 60fps+ in those areas unless you are talking of Dalaran where even most decent pcs can hit 40fps with all maxed at 1920x1080 at primetime.
 
People saying the Q6600 is killing his syetm are just plane wrong, it's still a great cpu and fast enough for todays games.
 
Why are people saying test the internet connection, the internet connection has nothing to do with frames per second.
 
Yes as above...a 3ghz quad isn't the issue here. It's WoW.

Also his internet connection is fine at the moment.
 
Q6600 @ 3.0gig is still fairly good - and should be good enough for WoW really - but its not very well paired with a GTX480. A core 2 at 3gig is about the minimum required to push that GPU (but that wouldn't cause it to run slower than say Q6600 + 8800GT pairing you just won't get the max out the GTX480).

I would look at what settings hes running, etc. also try changing multi display/mixed GPU acceleartion to single performance mode if its not already in the nVidia drivers as this can affect some games - and as above IIRC WoW doesn't handle poor internet update rates very elegantly and slows the entire client update rate to compensate.

Also if hes using VSync try disabling it or enabling triple buffering.
 
Yeah but internet connection would only effect things that are downloaded from the servers such as players and npcs the rest is stored on your PC so i don't see how it could effect FPS.
 
Because the game is badly written and frame rendering update it too tightly tied to game mechanics/logic update.
 
It's not the problem with the GTX480...it's the Q6600 not being fast enough running single/dual thread.

People that say Q6600 at 3.0GHz is not a problem with WOW...have you actually used one to play the game?

Most mmorpg is either single or dual-threaded, so a faster dual-core would deliver better frame rate than a slower Quad core.

There's a mmorpg I'm playing (not WOW) which my minimum frame rate would drop to 15fps at 1024x168 when there are many players on screen, even though my GPU usage is only around 20% max. I have a friend who got a Phenom II 965BE at stock speed 3.4GHz and with a 5850 playing the same game as me, and his minium frame rate is also lower than 20fps.

This is why i5 750 or i7 920 overclocked to around 4.0GHz will deliver higher frame rate in most mmorpg, because they are the fastest running single or dual-thread operation.

mmorpgs are always tend to be more CPU dependent than GPU.
 
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