right now I have an average of 50-55 fps in 1080p, with a 1050Ti. Everything set on high/max.
Do you think it is going to improve or worsen with the final release? Do we already have (almost) all the animations and graphic elements already in the beta?
It will likely improve. Between Blizzard optimizing the new graphic pipeline and NVidia/AMD likely applying driver level optimizations the result should be considerably better FPS
Real time shadows are very demanding. There is a reason they only became mainstream well after 2006. Performance will likely improve but there will always be a considerable impact for real time shadows.
Ok, thanks. I saw a lot of people having fps problems. In my case, with an “old” 1050Ti, fps were always stable since the beginning of the beta.
Never more than 75, and never less than 42-45 in very demanding situations/fights, even with everything set on max including shadows.
I have Ryzen 5 2600, 1050Ti KalmX (passive, no fans), 16GB DDR4 3000Mhz.
Steady 55-60fps on 1vs1 (Vsync on) and 43-60fps in 2vs2 online. With Vsync off I can get up to 75fps.
Your rig isn’t bad at all anyway, I don’t think the problem is the CPU.
17% is a conservative estimate. As WC3 must be doing something inefficiently it is possible the difference is larger due to the more modern pipelining.
I would suggest he tests his 2600K to make sure it is still performing like one would expect. It is possible its performance has suffered due to all the Intel security mitigations.
I would not be too concerned about it at the moment. Blizzard did promise a wave of optimizations in the run up to the release and it is likely those will give a large improvement to performance for systems like yours. Heroes of the Storm was pretty much the same where from Alpha to release frame rate improved by well over 100% on my old I7 920 system.
Hello all, I have problem with my notebook. Warcraft runs on an integrated GPU, although the laptop has a GTX 1060, all the manipulations through the Nvidia control panel did not help, maybe there are some command line parameters for launching through a discrete GPU? Thanks in advance for the answers.
I recommend retesting the latest update. A lot of people are reporting massive frame rate improvements.
That is a 18 core HEDT processor. It is possible performance issues are caused by too many cores and threads (synchronization bug/issue). You could try limiting Warcraft III to 4-6 cores to see if that helps. If it does help that might be worth a bug report.
Most (as good as all) games are not being optimized for more than 4-6 cores due to target audience. This is why no one recommends HEDT processors for gaming, they can game well but they will not perform any better than considerably cheaper high end consumer CPUs. HEDT is really only for people who need the cores for professional applications or PCIe lanes.
The i9-7980XE was a $1999 MSRP CPU. However thanks to AMD its better equivalent, the i9-10980XE is only $1000. This is because $1999 can get you a lot more high performance cores from AMD thanks to ThreadRipper 3000.
$15,000 would buy some high end Xenon CPU, but it would be pointless to do so unless you really need the features Xenon offer. Otherwise for just $4,000 one could buy the 64 core 128 thread AMD ThreadRipper 3990X, which will likely be the best performance HEDT processor until AMD Zen3 hits the market. I am aware you were joking, just pointing out that more money does not necessarily mean more performance. ATM about $4,000 is the upper limit for best all round CPU performance.
He has the system. It is from 2-3 years ago. 1080 Ti was pretty much the best consumer GPU outside of titans which offered little benefit.
I am guessing he needed the processor for something non-gaming related such as thread count or PCIe slots. That is pretty much the only reason to get HEDT over considerably cheaper high end consumer since the gaming performance is practically the same if not in the favour of high end consumer.