Classic Computer Performance

WoW Classic WoW Classic General Discussion
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My setup is an I-7 with 16mg and a TB SSD GE Force GTX
Fiber connection with 32ms ping in the game.
190 down, 18 up connection.

And I am lagging in the game on the lowest settings.
Especially around the UC guards, their green aura drops my FPS to 10-25 fps.

Running around outside I can see a very slight jerk to the environment.

I went to Task Manager, - stopped everything else that could be stopped.
I am running nothing exotic .

I never saw this issue in retail.

What have I not tried? Looking for suggestions.

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Are all your drivers and operating system up to date?

Edit:
Also, when you say lag, do you mean latency or framerate?

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You don’t have a fiber connection. Fiber is symmetric btw. What you get down is what you get up, and 190 is extremely low for fiber. Maybe your ISP is clown town?

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I see your problem. You’re using an I-7 with 16 milligrams of data! /s

Also, I don’t know what a GE Force GTX is. What’s the model number? Is it a 970/980/1060/1070/1080?

But an I-7 with 16GB of ram with a TB SSD shouldn’t have any load problems. It’s gotta be your graphics card, your drivers or malicious software.

Are you sure that you didn’t miss a setting? Post Processing, Anti-Aliasing, Shadows, Water Reflection, Particle Density, foliage, view distance, etc.

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You can play retail WoW with integrated graphics, an i5 processor, and 4GB of RAM, so I don’t think your hardware is the issue. You probably have what I would call an “unfriendly software environment.”

Install all your Windows updates. Download and run CCleaner.

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2005 WoW was designed to run on 10 million Chinese Pentium III machines running VESA video cards… The new “Classic” version is using most of the same low-poly models and low-rez textures, so anything made in the last decade shouldn’t have any issues with it.

Download “MWAV” from escan (it’s the antivirus ‘morning after’ app), install it, click the update button and wait about 15 minutes, then scan your system.

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Thanks for the feedback.
I will reinstall Windows, check all driver updates including the Graphics card and take another run at this. Ps… where can I buy a Chinese Pentium 3?

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I’ve been perfecting my system over the last few months to prep for classic, and have been testing with Diablo 3.

One thing I found was that my cpu was overheating because the cpu fan was loose, which throttled my cpu power and FPS to very low levels as it’s designed to do. That could be an issue your are experiencing.

I would also look at your system when at 15fps to see what is capping out, cpu, gpu, or something else. Let me know what you see.

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Stop going to so many of “those” sites, you perv.

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I never knew that graphics cards ate up so much power until i bought a top end graphics card, but only had a 450W power supply. That could be your problem also.

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Yeah… you have something wrong with your system.

Make sure your drivers are up to date. Since you run an Nvidia card, go ahead and use the optimization option or recommended settings in game. Bot sure which series, but anything 680+ will do better than the 10-25 FPS stutter.

Now this also could be a texture issue. Might need to do the file checker. Would tell you how, but currently not at home nor remember exactly where it is located.

Going to be one of those two options. Double check you system usage through various means while looking at the guards. It will help narrow it down.

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-Update-
I reinstalled Windows.
All drivers.

Problem solved… game is smooth as the prom queen’s thighs…

Thanks everyone.