There’s an addon on reddit’s frontpage which apparently increases framerate. It bricked my WoW client.
If you decide you must try this addon, backup your interface and WTF folders first. Or you may lose all your settings while trying to restore your client.
How would an add on increase frame rate?
Playing with console variables depending on location. So it automatically turns certain settings down in dornogal for example.
It did more than that for me though, it caused a black screen flicker on everything past the login screen. Bad times.
If one uses an addon for that, the better option is to do it yourself and then play at those settings level. Addons cannot reliably be used to increase performance since addons themselves decrease it, and if one is already looking for a performance increasing addon…
Probably just a better idea to make those changes oneself.
I play on a glorified toaster these days (PC was built during Broken Shore in Legion with 0 upgrades since). Trying to fix a bad/aging computer with addons isnt going to work.
Time to bite the bullet and turn settings down and leave them down. Avoiding Dorn helps too (same way it was advised to avoid Lagaran back in Legion).
I wonder what else it did besides brick WoW.
Mine was built during late Mists of Pandaria (or perhaps early WoD). Still works fine for everything I do, compatibility issues aside.
If more people used PCs for longer, developers would be forced to optimize their software. I think that would be neat.
My PC works “fine” too…albeit loading screens are a royal PITA (even with wow on an SSD) and I think my overall settings are on 6 or 7. Was in a pug raid last night with 30 people and omg the FPS drop was insanely real (my usual group runs 15-18 or so) on bosses. I basically don’t even bother trying to do much but tag on world boss kills.
I’m also much closer to the minimum hardware instead of suggest hardware. Modern games I know I won’t be able to play (or at least with decent quality).
I think WoW does actually go above and beyond in that it works on glorified toasters. It isn’t like other big game devs are bending over backwards catering to PCs encroaching on double digit years.
It probably tweaks video setting and uses some console commands.
Eh, there’s a middle ground there I think.
I don’t think people (or devs) should expect to use the same PC for a decade or more.
Technology improves, and working on the assumption that people won’t improve their hardware with it would severely limit what devs can try to do. Your PC is old as hell my man.
But we also shouldn’t assume people are buying whatever new generation of hardware every 2 years as they release either. That’d mean like $1250/yr in hardware costs, easily. That’s ridiculous and should never be considered the norm.
There’s also just the fact that people are at different starting points when they buy their PC. Maybe they bought the budget tier xx60 Nvidia cards and equivalent other hardware. Maybe they bought a generation older to save money. That’s going to last a LOT less long than someone who dropped $2800 to upgrade to whatever the best of the current generation is.
Personally, I’m running an RTX 2070 Super + i9-9900k CPU, bought it in later BfA, like August 2019. It’s over 5 years old now.
It’s mostly serviceable, but there are moments where I feel like I want to upgrade now, so I will probably upgrade a handful of months after the next generation of hardware pops up.
(Having rougher framerate on the pull in a larger raid is not ideal. Freezing up because there’s not enough RAM is not ideal. Doesn’t happen often in WoW but that was an issue I’d have with some other games sometimes. And that’s another factor. Someone comfortable with buying individual components to slowly upgrade their PC as needed is going to keep the “same” computer around for a lot longer than someone who is not comfortable doing that. I built my first PC. I never want to do it again. I should upgrade my RAM first and foremost, but I’m not touching that crap. I’ll wait until I full upgrade.)
Depends on how much things improve over that time, the cost to ‘improvement’ ratio is way too high.
how exactly did it brick your wow client?
Generation to generation of hardware can vary. If you’re on an old PC, one thats been around since a few expansions ago. You can’t expect developers to cater to that old hardware.
It’s time to bite the bullet if you have a pc thats 8-10 years old. Your tech is ancient, in relative terms.
Few expansions, they definitely should. There’s quite a few games that cater to the lower end PC market, WoW is one of those. A few expansions I don’t think is 8-10 years either
That sounds like an ad.
Also remind me of the downloading more RAM meme.
At the end of the day, Reddit is degenerate.
WoW is indeed one of them, but running wow bare minimum is not gonna be a great experience.
that is roughly 4-5 expansions. Yes it is time for an upgrade if your PC is that old.
Darn tootin. I have no need to send more crap to the landfill, it still works. As I got older I began to realize I don’t need new junk all the time. I use 24 year old sunglasses too (oakley half jackets). When things serve you well, hang onto them.
You know, you wouldn’t think that an addon would brick your install, but it also happened to mine. Albeit, it was working fine but I noticed the addon made the game look significantly worse, like colors are now washed and everything has as soft look to it. I tried to fix all the cvar commands manually as best I could and then did a scan and repair. That’s when my install got bricked. Completed removed wow and installed fresh but the game looks pretty bad still.
Ran the following command to reset the cvar
/console cvar_default
And now I’m trying work out how to get it to look right again. My account is well over 15 years old so I’m sure I have ran several commands to make the game run/look better (at least to me). So I’m sure resetting all the cvar settings undid a lot of things I have done over the years.
So yeah… beware.
Edit:
Found this sharpness macro which may be something I had before
/run local o = GetCVarBool("ResampleAlwaysSharpen"); SetCVar("ResampleAlwaysSharpen", not o); print("Sharpening is now " .. (o and "off" or "on"))
Except you’re trying to use an addon to compensate for the computer being so old. It’s obviously not working.
It’s on Curseforge.
I’m having that issue with all of my games. Found out it was the newest Nvidia update to my card. And I don’t even have Nvidia taking over my game graphic settings. Went back to an old driver… things are better.