In orgrimmar on 1980x1200 with ultra details, and shadows on low i have 120-130 fps, with shadows on ultra - 50-60. Turn them off, profit - i doubt you care about them anyway
i5 2500k@4,3GHZ
4870x2
2x4GB Ram Corsair 1600mhz cl9
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I find this to be the best advice in this thread so far. Also, the view distance can be a large burden in certain situations. I have a GTX 570 with 2.5GB of RAM, and I've seen WoW use 1.5GB of that. I have everything maxed except shadows, which I have turned down 1 or 2 notches. With that gfx card, 16GB of DDR3-1600 and an i7-2600k @ 4.5GHz, max shadows is just too much for it. I can't really tell the difference between the top 2 or 3 levels of shadows, but if those matter a lot to you, you'll have to lower many other settings to keep max shadows and have good framerates. But if you're raiding, that shouldn't be a priority. You should lower your settings enough so that you're not impacted by anything in a 25-man raid. Start with shadows and view distance, anti-aliasing and so forth.
One other setting that can have a very big impact on performance is either hardware cursor or reduce input lag. I can't remember which, and my account is not active right now to check, but one of these was pretty useful in the early days of WoW but now it really doesn't do much except drag down performance. Maybe someone else here will read this and know which of those two settings it is.
Everyone gets 60+ fps @ 25 mans Ragnaros but I don't see a single screenshot or fraps fps log to prove it.
Here's how 25 man Ragnaros looks on my system :
i3-2300 @ 3.3 Ghz
4 gb ram
6950 2gb modded to 6970
http://minemymind.org/WoW.exe-2011-1...-24-37-198.htm
Everything on low (Vsync / tripple buffering enabled) with projected textures on and view distance medium. No F@H running the background, latest drivers, w7x64, etc.
Well, I never drop below 60 fps in 25-mans. Everything except shadows maxed, only thing that really matter in WoW are CPU and RAM anyway. That's also why OP has poor performance... even 4GB of proper RAM are totally fine for me.
in 10-mans and 5-mans I'm beyond 150 fps for the most part, sometimes even 200. And that's with a worse graphics card than yours running the game at 1920x1080p.
edit: running crap like recount, xperl, questhelper, mining addons and the like totally kill your performance as well. disable those and replace recount with skada and then check again.
Last edited by Heltoray; 2011-10-11 at 01:13 PM.
I'd sure like a computer that doesn't drop below 60 fps during 25 man Alysrazor nuke phase when the bird drops down and takes extra damage. Never heard of anyone having one but apparently some people in this thread do. I've got 150-200+ fps while idling in 25 mans but still drop to around 12 there.
Also to the OP I was using the same CPU until a couple months back and it was fine for 10 mans I didn't notice any stuttering but I could only really fraps half-screen for it to be smooth. Then I switched to 25 mans for firelands and I just had to upgrade my hardware as even though it was certainly playable the low fps certainly wasn't enjoyable. Now with a 2600k + new mobo I've got no problems in raids due to fps issues even when frapsing high quality. There are certain points in a couple encounters where the game doesn't run smooth like the razorbird coming down but that's just something no reasonable equipment can handle and those few times it's not needed to have max fps to survive anyways. Better FPS can often times turn that fail into a close call and it definitely makes the game more enjoyable and that's what I got out of upgrading from the phenom 2 x4 945, very much recommended although 2500k might be even better for the purposes of WoW.
Does it? My old laptop was at 3-18 fps on the absolute minimum of settings, without any addons. Using Tidy Plates didn't change a thing (maybe cause it couldn't be worse?) My new laptop gets 40 fps on ultra (+AA/+multisampling) in the crowded areas of Orgrimmar. Didnt't raid with it yet, but instances work like a charm, even those AOE packs WoW uses 5-9% of my CPU.
Really? I run with 100+ addons, i5 2500k OC to 4.1, 2 gtx 460's SLI'd OC to 850/1700/2000 (2 460's where cheaper then 1 560+) and don't drop below 60 fps in max at 1080p in 25 man raids. Well ok it has hit 52 fps sometimes but jumps back up to 65-70 right away. IN sw i hit 90-120 FPS flying/standing/banking/ah'ing
The guy in post #47 (gogusrl) was at least honest with his framerate, that's what it looks for you too. 60 when standing still and vsync capped, but closer to 25 during seeds/adds phase. The fact is that when your fps is lowest, you don't really have usually time to look at it :P
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All games are poorly optimized, all hardware configs are perfect!
Seriously, though, WoW has one of the best optimized engines out there. When I was playing during cataclysm, I was rollin along at 45-60 fps in 25-mans with my current computer at 1080p, Ultra setting with shadows on Good, 4x MSAA. OP could do with a motherboard upgrade, though.