I play WoW a lot, and with the exception of the video card, I have a 8800GTS, my PC is very similar to yours. I play on Alexstrasza for what's it worth. I onlly mention the realm because I wouldn't be surprised if there was some variation between the servers.
With that said, in my case, I have never thought WoW was all that CPU intensive. GPU, yes...CPU...not sure. I am getting frame rates in the 30 - 60 range in Dalaran. The few times I have been in 25 man Naxx, I think my rates were around 60.
Since you have essentially reset your UI once, which as I am sure you know, that would be the first thing that Blizzard would ask you to do. I would check your video settings, One to check, is Shadow Quality, that can be low as can Player Texture. I noticed that when I turned OFF Vertical Synch, my frame rate doubled...but does tend to jump around a bit. If you get "tearing" then you could turn it back on. I run 2 monitors so I can play 2 toons at the same time, so I have Windowed Mode selected...I have no idea if that affects any frame issues, but you could experiment with that.
Hope something in this helps, Regards....Gary At 08:21 AM 4/25/2009, It was written by Joe User that this shall come to pass:
Hello Gary, Saturday, April 25, 2009, 5:21:12 AM, you wrote: > Just as an experiment, try disabling all your addons and see what your > frame rate is. That will give you a baseline that you can go forward > from. Where do you feel your pc is lacking ? > Regards.....Gary Yeah I tried that written Thursday, April 23, 2009, 6:17:44 PM by me: > But that's not the weirdest part, I just loaded my toon with addons > and with addons disabled - I saw maybe a 5 to 10 FPS increase going in > modless. So... I dug deeper. I found out I still had Intel's speed > stepping (or w/e it's called) enabled. So I turned that all of. > See how I do now and get back to you. BTW, my issue is during raids I > stutter sometimes and when everything is turned to low save for spell > details and a little distance... that shouldn't happen. IMO. I really think I run pretty clean WoW. I mean, here's my mod list which we never have fully discussed: CTMOD (my main mod for alot of stuff inc UI) Deadly Boss Mods (raiding) DoTimer (Keep tracks of DoTs so I can keep them up) Item Rack * (Which I will lose once Blizz implements theirs) Movable Bags * ( Allows you to move bags around but i could lose it) Omen (Raiding - Threat) Quartz (Cast Bar/Latency - I could lose it though) Questhelper (Self Explanatory but this mod is a pig and it's disabled unless the toon is grinding - leveling up) Ratings Buster (Informational that adds Item value to loot and compares items vs in slot adds gems to figure out values - nice) Recount (It's a Damage meter - usually off unless we are learning a fight helps me benchmark my play) SCT SCTD * (Scrolling combat text - which has been implemented by Blizz but it's not as good as the original - still I could lose it) SimpleMiniMap (I mainly use it to allow me to drag down the minimap while I am mining herbing - to see where they are) SmartBuff / Smart Debuff (Handles buffing and rechecking buffs and I also use Debuff as raid frames and debuff removal) Off these mods only the ones with * have been outdated and continue to work - not sure if they will always be that way but I guess mod author won't update them to because they work fine. Sometimes they just update on major patches, etc. Either way I do not think they are impacting the gameplay. So right now I have between 9 and 10 MB of addon memory used. If Questhelper was on it would add another 6 or so easy but that ones a hog anyway. Otherwise only a few mods are close to 1MB mem usage themselves and the rest are far less then that. So, I don't feel the PC is lacking, it plays all my other games fine but when I play WoW (which is with out a doubt my number one game) during boss encounters in a 25 man I would/will sometimes skip and hiccup and it just makes me nuts. When it happens I start to wonder am I lowering my DEEPS because I am stuttering around? It's hard to react to stuff also when your skipping around too. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."
