Really really bad performance in WotLK

Strife212 · 24 Nov 2008 at 20:27

Bought WoW Wrath of the Lich King today

I get absoloutely shocking performance, 40fps at best going down to 10, surely this isn't right, used to play WoW original on a 3.0ghz P4 with GeForce 5 on my old laptop.

I realise this isn't very specific. Tried updating graphics drivers.

Anyone else have any problems?

LeJosh · 24 Nov 2008 at 21:29

Not that drastic, I heard the new shadows aren't very well implemented. Try re-installing wow all together.

Sasso · 24 Nov 2008 at 21:33

LeJosh said:
Not that drastic, I heard the new shadows aren't very well implemented. Try re-installing wow all together.

lol by then a new expansion will be out

Azagoth · 24 Nov 2008 at 21:35

Knock the shadows slider down. I know you shouldn't have to with the PC in your sig but how they've gone about adding them is dire. For instance, if I knock the slider up one notch my game becomes totally unplayable, dropping from the usual 80(ish) FPS down to single figures.

Metalface Mark · 24 Nov 2008 at 21:39

I just turn the sliders down to nothing, dosent make much difference anyway.

Strife212 · 24 Nov 2008 at 21:42

Thanks for the advice guys. Fixed it in the end by going into the WoW application settings in the nVidia control panel and turning off SLI for WoW.

Getting around 40fps everywhere now with the shadows maxed, that's fine by me tbh. The shadows really are a performance killer though!

Not that drastic, I heard the new shadows aren't very well implemented. Try re-installing wow all together.

Fresh install today, got out my ancient 4 disk copy of WoW, then the TBC DVD, then finally the WotLK dvd.