setting up 5870xfire for wow?

[tmaxxthomson]

just wondering if anyone knows some specifics for setting up my system to run WoW at its best. because i know my system could do so much more for wow. if anyone has any ideas?

 

[Nyoron]

Wow is not known to be a particuarly gpu heavy game so chances are that you're already running it at it's best.

 

[Overslop]

just wondering if anyone knows some specifics for setting up my system to run WoW at its best. because i know my system could do so much more for wow. if anyone has any ideas?

Never played it but aside from maxing out the in-game settings you could bump up all the CCC settings to maximum also.

 

[jorzeh]

I hear with the changes made to the 3d engine for cata video cards will be needed more i can max the game out on my 4870x2 and core i7 @ 4Ghz but in darlan you get fps drops but thats due to lag and the game engine being pushed behond what it should be trying to display.

 

[Exsurgo]

Not much you could do to peed it up with a rig like that from a hardware point of view, except maybe a SSD. WoW scales badly with dual GPU unfortunatly. I would suggest performing the optimisation tricks like process affinity and manually setting it to run with 8 threads (forget the exact details of that one). With those optimisations force 16x AA in CCC and put everything on performance, and you could try the experimental DX11 features by entering in the DX11 command line.

 

[mmj_uk]

Crossfire isn't very good for WoW or at least wasn't when I had a 4870x2, a single GTX280 was better at the time.

One tip for anybody having performance problems try turning the shadows down one notch, for a couple of years now having shadows at full caused a 50% fps drop in most places, it seems to apply to Cataclysm as well.