Simpleton question about WoW?

davedudes · 4 Mar 2011 at 20:45

I think i'm getting low FPS in WoW, when i'm in Stormwind City sometimes my FPS drops to about 48 (that's with loads of people there) the rest of the time in the world it's about 90 to 100+, my settings are on ultra with shadows turned down to good, i'm at 1920x1080. Just want to run it past you guys because I think i'm getting obsest with frames per second :mad:

Edrof · 4 Mar 2011 at 20:49

It's because you're a Night Elf, isn't it?

Kosmiche · 4 Mar 2011 at 21:02

Turn aa down a bit, at that res 2xaa should be sufficient.

Complaining about 48 fps is a bit churlish if you ask me, some people have nothing.

Tikkabhuna · 4 Mar 2011 at 21:03

Main cities have always had that problem.

Puppetmaster · 4 Mar 2011 at 21:08

I used to get maybe 30 fps at busy times in org / dala with my previous pc.

With my new pc, cpu at stock i get probably 50 - 70 in busy times. If its insanly busy i wont get that high though.

Xelene · 4 Mar 2011 at 21:20

Was stuck at home a few years back with a broken ankle, couldn't sit at my desk to use the PC so was stuck playing WoW (only thing that would run really) on a Laptop with 768MB RAM and GMA950 graphics. Tried to avoid Ogrimmar.

Haze · 4 Mar 2011 at 22:09

yeah pc spec will effect your fps a lot,, turn down ya setting or get a better pc

MadMan-JaMeS · 4 Mar 2011 at 23:11

my fps never goes above 60fps anywhere is there some sort of cap you can turn off ?

Murray · 4 Mar 2011 at 23:18

Well on my laptop i play on in Stormwind can drop to 7 fps and i don't really mind and when none busy areas only around 35.

Puppetmaster · 4 Mar 2011 at 23:47

MadMan-JaMeS said:
my fps never goes above 60fps anywhere is there some sort of cap you can turn off ?

Vsync

will13 · 5 Mar 2011 at 02:27

I get around 50fps with my PC on same settings, but I know its my Q9400 thats stopping it from going higher, cause I nearly got the same FPS with my 5850 (I got a GTX480 now)

GothicCorpse · 5 Mar 2011 at 03:20

Storm wind is like orgrimar? id just leave the setting tbh what else you do in the city? just standing there and doing a few dailys

what really kills my fps is the swirly adds in vortex pinnacle, my pc allmost dies

u guys know what im talking about

davedudes · 5 Mar 2011 at 19:16

Yeah, I think I have to say sorry guys. I know 48FPS isn't bad but I do notice it in gameplay.

Anyway much appreciated for all your replies.

Cheers

Puppetmaster · 5 Mar 2011 at 19:59

Whats your fps in raids?

Sin_Chase · 5 Mar 2011 at 21:07

48FPS is fine for main cities, it's an MMO not an FPS - suck it up.

BobbyBBB · 5 Mar 2011 at 21:18

rofl 48 is fine.

Fenris · 5 Mar 2011 at 21:59

davedudes said:
Yeah, I think I have to say sorry guys. I know 48FPS isn't bad but I do notice it in gameplay.

I can almost guarantee this is bull. Differance between 10 and 30 sure, that's easy, but 48 and 100? No chance, especially not in WoW.

Also just to make it completely clear, slow down in cities is normal and it will always happen to some degree, regardless of the system you are playing it on.

Puppetmaster · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:37

Ive played 25man raids with 15 - 25 fps and its no issue, still 100% able to play pretty much to your maximum potential like that.