I love this alternative slang MMOG'ers have invented. Had me scratching my head &
then laughing at people when I was beta testing a certain MMOG that's still NRFPT.
"Toon"? Well PC, character, etc... weren't cool enough sounding.
"Mob" since AI or NPC is too much to remeber!
"Agro" because an enemy's awareness level & resulting actions towards a PC needed a
more confusing name.
There's more I'm sure but those are the few I remember. =)
Video card wise I highly doubt an MMOG engine is that taxing on a video card and
would be looking at reverting from customized settings and removing 3rd party code as
has been said.
Gary Jackson 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.
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..."
