Poor FPS in WoW?

TheXileD

TheXileD

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Hi there,

I've been playing WoW for quite a while now, but recently have been suffering with extremely poor FPS.

Back in the day, I used to do 40-man raids, from ZG - Naxx. I'd often kite etc, so as far as I remember I can't have had poor FPS. Since the last few patches and TBC i've had a dramatic decrease in my fps for some reason. It floats between 5-10 in 25-mans and big crowds of players.

I've tried running with no sound, no mods or anything, but I still get nasty FPS. I'm currently running with 800x600 lowest everything aswell. I formatted not to long ago, i've defraged, scanned for spyware but still no improvement. Has the game gfx etc improved a lot or what? Not that I can tell...

Hardware could be out of date I guess:

P4 3.0ghz
2GB RAM
6800GT

Thanks in advance for reading and your replies,

Thexiled
 
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Had the exact same specs as you a few months back and I too had poor fps. I tried everything, settings, drivers... You name it I tried it.

I honestly think it's down to the PC and that there is no way to improve it. I think the main thing that holds WoW back is the CPU.

When I switched to my new PC I was blown away by the performance different, it was like playing another game.
 
TBC needs more to run than Vanilla WoW. The BE starting zone forests take way more than something like Goldshire for example.
 
Yup, there's lots more detail in the TBC areas.
If you plan on playing WotLK I'd upgrade tbh, as I suspect it'll be the same sorta thing.
 
as an ex avid raider that played 5 days a week 3-6 hours a day for several years i can tell you that your addons need clearing out every so often ;) I used MANY addons but sometimes they just need clearing. Delete ** cache and WTF folder and interface folder. reload wow, it will load up as 800x600 or something small and recreate the folders. Re-download all ** addons and set it back up. Well worth it and you will see significant improvements.

BUT the biggest imrpovement will be moving to ace2 addons. Ace2 addons all share the same libraries thus removing the need to have individual libraries for each addon. Thus making addons more efficient and less memory and processor hungry. http://www.wowace.com/ is the site and you should get WAU.. wow ace updater. It will update ALL your ace2 addons at a click of a button. Perfection :)

every addon i own is now ace2. Spend a weekend finding the best addons and you wont look back. Trust me :)
 
WoW really benefits from a good dual-core CPU :)

The 6800 will also hold it back a little, a low/mid-range 7/8 series GPU will give you a much more consistent FPS everywhere. Also note that places like Shattrath give poor performance even on high-end rigs and is due to the many unoptimisations added to the game engine since TBC.
 
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