Low FPS considering my which PC i have.

[Dyminator]

Hello MMO-Champion! i'll just start with general information about my PC / WoW

General Information

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition | Six Core, 3,3GHZ/3,7GHz Turbo, 9MB, 125W |

RAM: Corsair Vengeance™ DDR3 1600MHz 8GB CL8 Kit w/2x 4GB XMS3 modules, CL8-8-8-24, 1.5V, Vengeance Heatspreader, 240 pin

Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula, Socket-AM3+ ATX, 990FX+SB950, DDR3, 4xPCIe(2.0)x16, CFX&SLI, SATA 6Gb/s

Graphics Card: ASUS GeForce GTX 560Ti 1GB PhysX CUDA PCI-Express 2.0,"DirectCU II", GDDR5 ((Driver Version: 8.17.12.8026))

Power Supply: Corsair TX V2 850W PSU ATX 12V V2.3, 80 Plus Bronze, Standard.

Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600)

Resolution: 2 displays both [1920x1080]

WoW Settings: Texture Resolution: High | Texture Filtering: 16x Anisotropic | Projected Textures: Enabled | View Distance: Ultra
Environment Detail: Ultra | Ground Clutter: Good | Shadow Quality: Good | Liquid Detial: Ultra | Sunshafts: Low | Particle Density: Good
Multi Sampling: 1x | Vertical Sync: Enabled | Display Mode: Fullscreen(during raid) | Graphics API: DirectX 9

DxDiag.txt @ the bottom

Video Problems:
Hello, i recently upgraded pretty much every part in my PC. I have a fair knowledge about which pc parts that fit with others etc.
And from my PoV this computer is pretty Powerful, and so does my pc nerd friends say also. it should easily be able to handle WoW on ultra with no problems.
But for some reason i go down to below 10 fps mid raid during boss fights, and i'm not even running on highest graphics. i have no idea what's wrong.
I have so far checked that all the PCI-E Power Cables are plugged into the GPU properly and that my graphics and DirectX drivers are up to date. My Graphics Card is also un-clocked.

Please point out if i missed something or if there's more information you need.


DxDiag output: DxDiag.txt

[Deleted]

Could it be overheating? How much VRAM are you using in world of warcraft with two screens? I don't know what else could be wrong, you shouldn't hit 10 FPS with that computer.

[Dyminator]

My GPU sits around 52 degrees celcius while raiding. And processor around 48 deegrees(Celcius) while gaming.
Display Memory: 4065 MB
Dedicated Memory: 993 MB
Shared Memory: 3071 MB
According to DxDiag :P

Edit: I'm also getting a windows message mid raid sometimes,
Something like "Your computer is performing slow....."
3 options are available.
- To turn off Aero theme on windows(switch back to basic theme)
- Keep it as it is
and can't remember the third, :P will edit if i get it again.

[Konics]

I don't know of many people who can honestly say they run 25s with everything ultra all the time @ 1920x1080+ and don't get bad fps some of the time if not most of the time. 25s are brutal on processors.

Try turning down AA down and you will probably see a big improvement.

[Sephiracle]

First of all, DX11, there's no reason to be running at 9 given your setup.

Apart from that check temps, disable addons, or cpu issue.

[Dyminator]

AA as in Anti-aliasing i assume ? which is multi sampling ? which already is set to lowest.
Yeah i know WoW is only using 1 core on multi-core processors. (QQ)

I dont know if it could be this, but yeah my second screen is a 42" TV :P i dont know if that takes alot extra.

I tried DX11 but didn't make much difference on the fps.

[iplaytokill]

I have the same specs as you have, the only thing diff is my cpu that is a i7- 2600k.

Anyway, i had this problem before and the only thing that fixed it was change the dispaly mode for Windowed(fullscreen).. Don't know why when i put on only fullscreen i can only set 30Hz at frame rate.

Right now i'm in Orgrimmar with 90-100 fps

[Shinshiva]

I tried DX11 but didn't make much difference on the fps.

I always got the impression that DX11 is more of an engine upgrade.

Simply put: If you're running DX9 you can only access a certain amount of any given game graphics engine, DX11 lets you access even more of that same engine (if, of course, it has DX11 parts to run on the game engine).

[Dyminator]

Anyway, i had this problem before and the only thing that fixed it was change the dispaly mode for Windowed(fullscreen).. Don't know why when i put on only fullscreen i can only set 30Hz at frame rate.

My fps drop occurs in all display modes. but frame rate says @ 60hz on all of them
I'm having rougly 40-60 fps in a low populated orgrimmar

Oh yeah, forgot to mention one thing, when i have fullscreen on WoW, my other screen turn black while i'm in the game :S
And returns to normal while tabbed out.
Sometimes it doesn't happend.

And here's the shiznitsz that happens from time to time during fullscreen
Screenshot

[vesseblah]

Drop texture filtering few steps, you wont notice the difference. Also any computer will drop in 25-man raids during aoe phases, AMD processors are much worse in that than Intel ones.

What's your normal framerate while in combat in average tank & spank situation in 25-man raid?

edit:

Also try running the game with all addons off, or at least upgrade those in case it's some bugged addon that's causing your problems.

[iplaytokill]

Have you ever tried to test with only one display?

And that msg just click on the last option to get ride of it.. i think that's normal.

And, what is your GPU driver?

[The Deux]

First: The 560 is not that powerful. Turn down texture filtering, and fiddle with shadows a bit.

You'll be fine.

[Dyminator]

Drop texture filtering few steps, you wont notice the difference. Also any computer will drop in 25-man raids during aoe phases, AMD processors are much worse in that than Intel ones.

What's your normal framerate while in combat in average tank & spank situation in 25-man raid?

Dropped the texture filtering to 2x Anisotropic.
I'm not sure what fps i normally on for example Baleroc25. i'll be able to check tomorrow

But Baleroc fps is fine, it's playable, but when it comes to Majordomo Staghelm, Rhyolith(pretty much entire rhyolith fight), Alysrazor my fps sky rockets down.

[The Deux]

Dropped the texture filtering to 2x Anisotropic.
I'm not sure what fps i normally on for example Baleroc25. i'll be able to check tomorrow

But Baleroc fps is fine, it's playable, but when it comes to Majordomo Staghelm, Rhyolith(pretty much entire rhyolith fight), Alysrazor my fps sky rockets down.

All of these fights are extremely graphics intensive, that is why. Also, I'll be honest with you, an AMD processor was not the correct choice to make for WoW.

[iplaytokill]

First: The 560 is not that powerful. Turn down texture filtering, and fiddle with shadows a bit.

You'll be fine.

With this card, i'm playing with all on Ultra, rage too, crysis 2... Not card fault

[vesseblah]

All of these fights are extremely graphics intensive, that is why. Also, I'll be honest with you, an AMD processor was not the correct choice to make for WoW.

I'm frapsing those fights at 25-30fps with far weaker graphics card (768mb GTX460) with all settings on high including shadows... But with i5-2500K CPU. OP's GTX560ti is not the limiting factor there.

[Dyminator]

First: The 560 is not that powerful. Turn down texture filtering, and fiddle with shadows a bit.

You'll be fine.

From whaat i've heard i should have better results than i have right now.
And as someone posted above here with same setupd with aot better results, so is my GL with the same card.

Have you ever tried to test with only one display?

And that msg just click on the last option to get ride of it.. i think that's normal.

And, what is your GPU driver?

Nahh haven't tested with only 1 display :P i can't live with that!
But my CPU diver is Version: 6.1.7600.16385

[iplaytokill]

Any chance you link us the model of both display you have?

[Electroso]

I had this problem with AMD Phenom II one time when I was just doing dailies or questing FPS was high 55-60, but when I went into a raid it went down to 5-10 FPS, what I had to do is upgrade BIOS and it was solved, your motherboard default BIOS might not support it. The website says that the new BIOS just started to support AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition, the default BIOS didn't support it. Check if your BIOS version is 0404 if its not the update to the newer since 0404 supports AMD Phenom II X6 1100T BE.

http://support.asus.com/Cpusupport/L...rmula&p=1&s=24

Edit: could you use CPU-Z and take a screenshot of your processor performance when you play WoW and your FPS goes down. Also your Graphics API: try changing to DirectX11 in game.

[Dyminator]

Any chance you link us the model of both display you have?

Monitor 1 Brand: packard bell (24")
Monitor 1 Model: Maestro 242DX

Monitor 2 Brand: PHILIPS (42") LCD-TV
Monitor 2 Model: 42PFL5405H

---------- Post added 2011-10-13 at 01:01 AM ----------

I had this problem with AMD Phenom II one time, what I had to do is upgrade BIOS and it was solved, your motherboard default BIOS might not support it. The website says that the new BIOS just started to support AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition, the default BIOS didn't support it.

http://support.asus.com/Cpusupport/L...rmula&p=1&s=24

BIOS was one of the first things i updated after i bought it.

Anyway! i'm off to bed for now getting up in a few hours