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simonhutchin322

simonhutchin322

simonhutchin322

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world of warcraft seems abit sluggish on my system, i use to play wow pre-bc and the game use to run perfect. Fps decrease is the biggest change, i run at 1680 by 1050 and max settings.

System

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard


Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

GeIL 4GB (4x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency Dual Channel (GX22GB6400UDC)

Corsair HX 520W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-520HXUK)

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card [11150-05-20R]

Vista 64 bit

if you guys could help that would be great

Sy
 
Do you have shadows maxed? they seem to drop my fps by like 20 so maybe turn that off and it doesn't make much of a difference anyway.

Playing in windowed mode also makes the game run about 10-15fps less too for me.
 
Zerolimitz said:
wow is very cpu demanding
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yet badly coded , probably barely uses any gpu.

i still play it on
amd64 3200
1.5gb memory
x800 pro

runs great even at 1600x1200 i get over 40 fps pretty much everywhere apart from dalaran.

the only thing that really effects me is the partical density slider if im in a big raid or av

ive done 25man onyxia no probs
 
Sycho said:
Do you have shadows maxed? they seem to drop my fps by like 20 so maybe turn that off and it doesn't make much of a difference anyway.

Playing in windowed mode also makes the game run about 10-15fps less too for me.
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This, shadows on max mean the game is trying to draw shadows you can't even really see. The game has a very long draw distance and when it is trying to add shadow effects to everything it can slow down even fast computers.

Knock the shadows to half way or so and that may give you a good improvement.
 
arknor said:
yet badly coded , probably barely uses any gpu.

i still play it on
amd64 3200
1.5gb memory
x800 pro

runs great even at 1600x1200 i get over 40 fps pretty much everywhere apart from dalaran.

the only thing that really effects me is the partical density slider if im in a big raid or av

ive done 25man onyxia no probs
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i find that so hard to belive that runs great...wintersgrasp on a amd3200 1.5 ram on that res...no thanks.
 
I've played wow since release on a AMD 3400 / 1 gig RAM / 6800ultra. Of course on a lower res but its works fine.
 
Its horribly optimised for hardware wince woltk, i drop 50% in fps when i enter northerend.

Thats with a 5870, quad @ 3.4 and 4gb RAM.

People with a hell of a lot lower speccs get better results than me..
 
yeh WoW is weird, runs great on my 3 year old laptop but my desktop i get massive FPS drops in Dalaran and Wintergrasp
 
unknownsock said:
Its horribly optimised for hardware wince woltk, i drop 50% in fps when i enter northerend.

Thats with a 5870, quad @ 3.4 and 4gb RAM.

People with a hell of a lot lower speccs get better results than me..
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Its nothing to do with optimisation - Northrend has a higher poly count than kalimdor and eastern kingdoms put together, which is why its noticeably slower :)
 
those that are having performance problems with quad cores, by default it only uses cores 1+2, for me that meant it used core 1 and HT on core 1, resulting in terrible fps. Once i changed affinity to Core 0+2+4 (actual cores, not HT threads) my fps increased a lot.

It's a very cpu heavy game, graphics dont make much difference tbh, when i changed what cores it used the fps increased by about 3x what it was on one core+ht thread.

There's a way to change it by default, ill have a look in a min.

As for the OP, try changing core affinity to Core 1+2+3 (leave core 0 for windows etc as wow only uses 3 cores iirc), overclocking your CPU will help a lot too.

Edit - Open "Wowfolder\WTF\config.wtf" change (SET processAffinityMask "xx") the xx will be 3 i think by default, which is core 0+core 1

to use cores 1+2+3 change it to 14, to use all 4 cores change it to 15.

Core Mask #
0______1
1______2
2______4
3______8
4______16
5______32
6______64
7______128

To use certain cores, just add together which ever numbers are next to the cores you want to use and put it where xx is above, save then when you start WoW it will automatically use those cores. (i.e. if you have an i7 and want to use cores(not HT cores) 2+3+4, which is core 2+4+6 it will be 84)

Hope that helps :)
 
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Kind of a long-shot but I'm not sure if a 520W PSU is the perfect amount for a 4890. Not sure though. Might be underpowered and not performing properly.
 
It's terribly written. I think most of the problem stems from how the shadows are written. When I used to play I got much better performance if I knocked them down a notch on the slider.

Performance was never that great on my rig, I just resigned to putting up with it.
 
If i overclocked the cpu what speeds would be realistic, without it overheating ? bearing in mind i have stock fan on cpu and 120mm fan on the back of the case, and stock case fan on the front.
 
lol thats terrible that it runs like that on you're rig, I used to play it on an absolutely ..... (you choose) laptop on near max and it ran awesome!

Very strange mate.

Nice post on the core affinity, reminds me of VMware!!!! funny you have to go through all of that for WoW.
 
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