Re improving wow performance

[Alexrose1uk]

And he left the Nvidia drivers on which could well be his problem.

Yep cleaning them off has already mentioned. Downloading new Nvidia drivers as per fastwunz suggestion wasn not going to do him much good however

 

[Scougar]

Confused by this, as i have a 3870 at 1920* 1200 and the fps is fantastic in wow (wife plays it). The 5770 should be wiping the floor with wow I am suprised it isnt.

 

[mmj_uk]

You'd probably see the biggest improvement by getting an i7 and clocking it to 4Ghz,

WoW is heavily CPU limited most of the time, even with an i7 you'll still get some dips though.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

Confused by this, as i have a 3870 at 1920* 1200 and the fps is fantastic in wow (wife plays it). The 5770 should be wiping the floor with wow I am suprised it isnt.

Its all about the CPU, and what area you're in. Some areas ingame you could be running 60-100+ fps, but then go to Dalaran and it'll drop to 20s. In fact I borrowed a machine recently using an AMD X2 5200+ (@2.85Ghz rather than 2.7Ghz) and I saw this all happening first hand because the CPU just isn't fast enough for the game, all the whilst the task manager reported exceedingly high CPU usage (80-90+% on both cores). If you have a better CPU, those lows are reduced, but the CPU is undoubtedly the bottleneck. Upping the resolution from 1280x1024 -> 1680x1050 barely touched the framerate.

WoW loves CPU more than anything else because of how CPU limited it is; the game is virtually running off an upgraded, proprietary Warcraft 3 engine after all.

 

[Boozebeard]

Yup, asfar as I know if you got performance issues on a fairly decent rig playing wow then it will be CPU problem. Espiecally as wow doesn't use multiple cores well.