Hello Gary, Sunday, April 26, 2009, 6:50:01 AM, you wrote:
> 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. Yeah, WoW is my primary game and I raid Mon thru Thurs and goof off on my off nites of Fri Sat and Sun. Play alts, raid with other guilds, etc. There is a difference on how populated your realm is. I play on Doomhammer which is one of the original 13 servers AND always has free transfers off. It's a terribly popular server. I can't/won't leave because thats where I have been for the last 4 years when some evil bastard(s) here got me hooked on WoW. Just kiddin - sorta ;) > 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. I get the same rates in Dal. On my single processor 3200+ with an AGP 6800 geforce I get 20 to 30 in Dal. Everything turned down and modless. I get 30 to 60 on my 4870 dual 3 ghz mods and all. I have heard people say that (like me) money was wasted upgrading from my 8800 to the 4870. Early in the AM when population is low Dal fly's in the evening it crawls. > 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. I have vsync turned off since i dont have any tearing. I'll mess around with window mode. I know the big two killers are shadows and view distance. I can live without shadows but I like distance for when I am gathering or pvp'ing. > Hope something in this helps, It has, I have read a lot of what we discussed but it helps confirm it when I ask others on this list; basically, because I trust the opinions here. > Regards....Gary -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."
