WoW: Most needlessly graphic-intensive game?

[kukkamies]

No I didn't mean serviceable. I can hammer a nail with a rock.
I said gamers, people who have a passion for it, not those who build a PC with the pocket change that fell in the couch and are fine doing their 1 hour per day of gaming with their single monitor and nothing else but the game running. Sure that's serviceable, but that's not what gamers look for just like a construction worker or anyone with a passion like woodworking will not be satisfied with a rock even if that rock can hammer that nail. I'm talking about people who want the most out of it.

Sounds like you have your own definition of what a gamer is that's not based on anything real, where it's not a true gamer without top of the line specs?
The average gamer still uses 1080p, a xx60 or xx50 series gpu and 4 core processor. Steam has hardware surveys about average specs.
The biggest "gamer" friends I have don't even have the money to upgrade, since they could play 10h+ every day. No way to afford better specs like that.

[Kalisandra]

It used to just completely dump everything on 1 core which is why having an intel CPU was such a big deal. Its better these days, but its still not well optimized afaik and still very CPU bound.

Hopping on the PTR and beating on some target dummies, I'm seeing WoW using four cores about equally, so it's doing better than quite a few modern games that still only use 1-2 cores hard.

[CrawlFromThePit]

Sounds like you have your own definition of what a gamer is that's not based on anything real, where it's not a true gamer without top of the line specs?
The average gamer still uses 1080p, a xx60 or xx50 series gpu and 4 core processor. Steam has hardware surveys about average specs.
The biggest "gamer" friends I have don't even have the money to upgrade, since they could play 10h+ every day. No way to afford better specs like that.

You're complaining that I have a definition of the word that you don't agree with and then you just make more of your own definitions as if you couldn't see your hypocrisy.

[Tantaburs]

No I didn't mean serviceable. I can hammer a nail with a rock.
I said gamers, people who have a passion for it, not those who build a PC with the pocket change that fell in the couch and are fine doing their 1 hour per day of gaming with their single monitor and nothing else but the game running. Sure that's serviceable, but that's not what gamers look for just like a construction worker or anyone with a passion like woodworking will not be satisfied with a rock even if that rock can hammer that nail. I'm talking about people who want the most out of it.

BTW your own video shows there's a difference when increasing the resolution, about 10% drop when going from 1080p to 1440, so I could expect at least another 15% drop when going to 2k which is pretty common. Also that CPU has some hard drops, the min FPS is always far from what they call the "average", this causes a visual problem known as FPS drop, where going from 130 to 80 is more annoying than staying at 80 all the time because the difference is noticeable, on top of only happening when there's a lot of action which is even more annoying. No real gamer seriously cares if the game runs at 250 fps while doing nothing.

But yes, it's serviceable for casuals, just not great for gamers.

Okay lets explain why you clearly have no clue what you're talking about despite being a "passionate gamer:

1) yes there are FPS drops from 1080 to 1440 the same way there are fps drops on the 10600k from 1080 to 1440 is the 10600k not a CPU for "Real Gamers" FPS drops happen from 1080 to 1440 because 1440p puts a higher strain on your graphics cards.

2) lets talk about these 1080 - 1440p drops. The Delta between the 10100 and the 10600k at 1080p in BFV is 18fps. The delta at 1440p is 6 fps. This is because the higher you turn up the resolution the less impact your CPU performance has on your FPS as most of the work is being done by the GPU. Theses results can be seen in other games as well Shadow of the Tomb raider 1080p delta is 41fps 1440p delta is 13. As you can see the difference in CPU quality decreases as resolution rises

3) Lets talk about these "FPS Drop problems" The average delta between average FPS and 1% min for 1080p gaming on the 10100 is 37. The average delta for the 10600k is 34. So if the 10100 is a bad gaming CPU because of the fps drops then the 10600k is a bad gaming CPU because of the FPS drops.

4) there wont be another drop going from 1440p to 2k because generally speaking 1440p is refereed to as 2k gaming. You mean 4k Gaming and yes there would be another drop but the delta between CPUs would shrink. If anything the 10100 is better suited to high resolution gaming than it is to 1080p gaming because more strain is on your GPU.

For someone who is "passionate" about gaming you have no clue what you're talking about. I'd rather have people scrounging up "pocket change from the couch" and building what they can afford that you in the gaming community any day of the week.

[rogoth]

Sixteen years.... If you havent been able to upgrade or build a computer by that time, you have some serious issues with money and life.

And maybe you should prioritize something else than WoW.

like i said, we don't know the OP's circumstances, furthermore not spending money on upgrading something because it suits your needs as is, is a smart use of monetary resources, my PC personally is 7 years old at this point and is really hitting the wall in terms of what it can run at respectable levels of graphical fidelity/framerates, but i don't earn enough to realistically be able to upgrade to anything newer any time soon as all component parts of my machine are the absolute best that the hardware can be, so i'm in a similar situation to the OP in that while i can easily run the current version of the game without any issues, pretty soon i would need to make an upgrade if i still played the game and wanted to keep playing.

[Kalika]

Sixteen years.... If you havent been able to upgrade or build a computer by that time, you have some serious issues with money and life.

And maybe you should prioritize something else than WoW.

That is not entirely true if you do not live in the US. Outside of the US parts availability is much lower and costs are much higher.

[kukkamies]

You're complaining that I have a definition of the word that you don't agree with and then you just make more of your own definitions as if you couldn't see your hypocrisy.

I didn't define a gamer anywhere. Just what average gamer from Valve statistics uses and how my subjective friends are.

There's a difference between a definition and a counter argument to your wrong definition. There's not a single type of gamer.

[Baneto]

That is not entirely true if you do not live in the US. Outside of the US parts availability is much lower and costs are much higher.

I live outside the US and while pc the best components can be costly at times, its not that dramatically expensive to put together a good pc if you just have a job and make money.

[Kalika]

I live outside the US and while pc the best components can be costly at times, its not that dramatically expensive to put together a good pc if you just have a job and make money.

My cousin lives in the UK and he is always complaining that computer hardware cost 25-30% more and that we always have better deals here in the US. It is possible he is exaggerating it to some degree.

[iosdeveloper]

WoW seem to have bottlenecks in cpu usage, totally fixable but no one's gonna bother

[matrix123mko]

PTR works for me.

[Baneto]

My cousin lives in the UK and he is always complaining that computer hardware cost 25-30% more and that we always have better deals here in the US. It is possible he is exaggerating it to some degree.

Yeah it can be tough trying to build a pc if you're not that experienced either, I learned a lot from reddits /r/buildmeapc and buildapc personally.
They are helpful there and put together a pc in parts for you by a criteria you create yourself (price, with or without extra stuff like kb/mouse and monitor).

[th3478t9gr89h2r89]

i didnt read most of thread so maybe someone has said this already but:

games (wow) having craving computure demands is a "deal" that game companies and computure hardware producers have with eachother. if blizzard updates wow every now and then nvidia for example contacts them and be like "hey blizz, would be nice if your next update on wow would require the players to upgrade to our new nvidia graphics card 3000. appreicate it xoxo nvidia" and in return blizz gets a share of the cut from them.

they rub eachothers backs and we pay both of them.

[Shedaar]

i didnt read most of thread so maybe someone has said this already but:

games (wow) having craving computure demands is a "deal" that game companies and computure hardware producers have with eachother. if blizzard updates wow every now and then nvidia for example contacts them and be like "hey blizz, would be nice if your next update on wow would require the players to upgrade to our new nvidia graphics card 3000. appreicate it xoxo nvidia" and in return blizz gets a share of the cut from them.

they rub eachothers backs and we pay both of them.

Yeeee...
No.
This is malpractice and unlawful competition.

Unless you have any evidence ofc, which you can give to your nearest police department to investigate.

[KaPe]

Yeeee...
No.
This is malpractice and unlawful competition.

Unless you have any evidence ofc, which you can give to your nearest police department to investigate.

Or at very least, make a conspiracy YouTube video, so you can farm them add money on your bullshit.

[huth]

My cousin lives in the UK and he is always complaining that computer hardware cost 25-30% more and that we always have better deals here in the US. It is possible he is exaggerating it to some degree.

That's not anywhere near the scenario rogoth is painting, though. You should still be perfectly able to afford a new system every few years outside of extreme circumstances.

Besides, EU prices generally include VAT already, so that might be somewhat misleading.

WoW seem to have bottlenecks in cpu usage, totally fixable but no one's gonna bother

At best, that'd put the bottleneck elsewhere. Having a bottleneck isn't fixable, you can only shift it around. But something is going to end up limiting performance.

[AntenoraDK]

An i3...

Are you a laptop gamer or something?

Now a days you can get Ryzen 3's and Ryzen 5's for a rather inexpensive price.

[Biggles Worth]

SL’s minimum (not “recommended” but “minimum”) requirement is an i5 processor. I have an i3 that runs GW2 (avoid game vs. game discussion) just fine but can’t run this ancient beast that is WoW? What a ripoff!

This is WoW not GW2.

[CrawlFromThePit]

I didn't define a gamer anywhere. Just what average gamer from Valve statistics uses and how my subjective friends are.

There's a difference between a definition and a counter argument to your wrong definition. There's not a single type of gamer.

I never said there's a single type of gamer, I even talked about different types so why are you saying something that is the opposite of reality?

[shonist]

2070super and i have to tune down graphics to preset 5 or so to maybe get 60fps on some parts. its really intensive.