PC spec for WoW 1900x1200
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My PC (sig) plays it wel in 1900 x 1200l. Usually I get constant 100+ FPS. Only play I get a huge drop is a fresh HS to Dala (the first 15 seconds or so), and raids with 4 or more shamans and their totems. Other than that, there is no reason why your FPS should drop.
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You don't need a good system at all. A dual core cpu, 2 gb's ram, and any graphics card from x1900 up. Also although a better system will improve your average fps, and allow you to use slightly better shadows the fps will always drop at the same points it's just a poor coded game.
These people are lying, you're going to get 15fps in Dalaran.
Who doesn't... being on a high pop server dala is sooo laggy.
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hd4870 and Athlon 6000+ x2 getting 100+ easily on old content with max settings. That drops to about 30-60 adv. in outlands (shatt can prove problems at peak times tho) and new content 15-40 but usually sits at 25. Always drops when im flying. Cant explain why the newer content drops frames either, its no different from old content looks wise. Oh raids like, kara, SSC etc was always 60ish for trash with the occasional downward spike and 30-40 for bosses. My res is 22" whatever by 1050.
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Dalaran drops my fps when busy to 20 on average.
I need to really upgrade my gfx card as its the slowest part of the pc but even then not convinced it will make that much difference.
I need to really upgrade my gfx card as its the slowest part of the pc but even then not convinced it will make that much difference.
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I Run Wow @ 1920 x 1200 with all settings maxxed apart from shadows, that seems to ruin fps anywhere when on max, think its one or 2 settings down.
Currently Running this on a 3.1GHZ Q9550 quad, 4gb ram, 4870 1gb
Most of the time i get decent fps, dala is kinda bad normally 25 ish when peak times.
Raids can drop fps a lot. Eg doing anub hc 25man last night, when aoe'ing all the adds in p1 i saw my fps drop to 8
Currently Running this on a 3.1GHZ Q9550 quad, 4gb ram, 4870 1gb
Most of the time i get decent fps, dala is kinda bad normally 25 ish when peak times.
Raids can drop fps a lot. Eg doing anub hc 25man last night, when aoe'ing all the adds in p1 i saw my fps drop to 8
Wow is not coded for SMP but it will offload some tasks to another core, audio processing for example iirc.
As others have said, its more sensitive to CPU than GPU but it does not matter what hardware you throw at it, some areas will just lag when busy. Dalaran for example.
I could run it maxed out, 1920x1200 on a [email protected], 2GB of RAM and a 285GTX. could also Fraps @ 30FPS comfortabley by offloading Fraps to 2 un-used cores and data to a seperate spindle.
Prior to the 285 I had an 8800 and it ran fine.
As others have said, its more sensitive to CPU than GPU but it does not matter what hardware you throw at it, some areas will just lag when busy. Dalaran for example.
I could run it maxed out, 1920x1200 on a [email protected], 2GB of RAM and a 285GTX. could also Fraps @ 30FPS comfortabley by offloading Fraps to 2 un-used cores and data to a seperate spindle.
Prior to the 285 I had an 8800 and it ran fine.
Wooo Kazzak, my ex server
Changing ISP wont help with the lag in Dalaran. Thats just the way it is, very busy server. Very bad when Wintergrasp is up.
It won't I went from a 4870 to a 5870 and my framerate in Dalaran is still about the same, maybe 1-2 fps higher if that.
It is CPU bound.
I assume they did it this way to cut the requirement for high end graphics cards (considering the huge variability in computers of the player base). Most will have at least a semi decent dual core nowadays, so they have more done by that I guess?
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They did not do it that way on purpose, it's just the nature of the beast.
Lots and lots and lots of "entitys" compromised of characters wearing mixups of 10s of thousands of items all being rendered. From my testing I think the lag is just the way the engine works and a limitation of DirectX.
I play some old DirectX 8 MMOs that should fly on todays systems but lag just as much as they did back when played on a tenth of the hardware.
Lots and lots and lots of "entitys" compromised of characters wearing mixups of 10s of thousands of items all being rendered. From my testing I think the lag is just the way the engine works and a limitation of DirectX.
I play some old DirectX 8 MMOs that should fly on todays systems but lag just as much as they did back when played on a tenth of the hardware.
Wooo Kazzak, my ex server
Changing ISP wont help with the lag in Dalaran. Thats just the way it is, very busy server. Very bad when Wintergrasp is up.
Thats telling you that you should be inside wintergrasp kicking some a!
OP - I use a HD4770 at those settings and it works nicely, it's a cracking little card and runs much cooler than the 4800 series.
I used to run wow on a quad core q6600 overclocked to 3.2ghz, with 4gb of ram and an 8800gt under xp. I was also running on a 6mb/s internet connection. FFS was always 60fps as I had vsynch on, but I did get fps dropping to 20fps in Dalaran.
However I have now upgraded to a i7 860 overclocked to 3.9ghz, with 8gb of ram and a gtx 295. I am now running on a 16mb/s internet connection. Now fps in Dalaran is also 60fps.
However I have now upgraded to a i7 860 overclocked to 3.9ghz, with 8gb of ram and a gtx 295. I am now running on a 16mb/s internet connection. Now fps in Dalaran is also 60fps.