Blizz,
When are you going to update this game engine with nvidia DLSS? It’s high time it gets implemented.
I dont want to hear that they cant do it or that they favor AMD stuff because the game supports nvidia reflex.
Please make it happen.
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They can’t do it.
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I just want the engine to actually utilize all my cpu cores and gpu. It’s a shame that I can run 120+ fps in any current gen game, but wow still hits spots of 60 frames while showing 5% gpu usage or less.
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The potato people need as much help as they can get.
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Exactly. It’s bad enough I had to buy a second potato with Dragonflight.
Seriously, the relatively low graphics requirements of WoW, especially compared to many other games out there, is part of what keeps people playing it.
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If everyone had graphics cards and PCs to handle the top games, they’d be off playing those instead of WoW.
WoW maintains its player base because it’s both affordable, and not too hard on systems.
It’s a game that’s lower-end by today’s standards.
I appreciate having a game that doesn’t make my machine melt like MH Wilds does lmao.
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The worst cards that support DLSS are more than enough to play WoW without it. What WoW really likes is more CPU power.
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Y’all need frame gen to play wow? It will run fine on 2 potatoes
That would be the CPU bottlenecking on something.
If you really want to max out your GPU for minor improvements to visuals, run the game with 200% render scale and turn on ray tracing too if GPU usage is still too low.
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dlss is way big over hype. it gives the illusion of having more frames when those frames are glitchy and gives you input lag. it’s nvidia propaganda. do not believe in big chip
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People complaining probably have AMD FSR enabled.
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You’re thinking of frame generation. DLSS is just a resolution upscaler, and it’s pretty good at it.
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I am confused about this – DLSS 4 seems to be a catch all for frame generation, Ray Reconstruction, Super Resolution, and DLAA which is what I assume the OP is talking about. But it would be great to even see basic DLSS implemented.
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It is confusing. For whatever reason, NVIDIA chose to label all their card software features under the DLSS umbrella, and then just added a number at the end. It gets even more confusing when you factor in that not all NVIDIA cards support some of these software features.
But at its core, DLSS is a resolution upscaler.
I’m not even sure if DLSS in WoW would make much of a difference to improve framerate, as the game seems to be more CPU bound than GPU bound.
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DLSS does include all those features. However, since DLSS requires at least an RTX 2060 to run, it’s doubtful that the upscaler would be particularly useful in wow, where higher performance igps can manage to run the game in 1440p on medium. The cards where an upscaler would be useful (IGPs, GTX 970 and lower, RX 570 and below) can’t run DLSS.
What wow is usually bound by, is CPU performance and memory latency. Part of why the x3d CPUs from AMD are so good is that wow really likes fast access to data, and you can’t beat having the data already being inside the CPU via the large cache (96 mb of L3 cache, when most other non-x3d cpus from both AMD and Intel top out in the neighborhood of 32-40 mb of cache).
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I appreciate the explanation. I have a 4070 super and 64GB so I am sure it wouldn’t do me much good. I just don’t know why people would want to turn it on. Or what feature they would need from it. I can’t imagine the AI upscaler would do much good.
It has more use cases in single player games. I can’t imagine all this tech being useful in MMOs or any online games for the most part.
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some people think they need 120fps in a 20 year old game, personally I’d rather not see whatever an AI decided to hallucinate instead of objectively accurate information on my screen but hey “gotta numbers bro”
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The irony is that people with actual potato PCs won’t be able to enable DLSS
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Frame gen might be useful as a smoother, but then again, frame gen is only really good when you have a base framerate of at least 60 FPS.
But that runs into the same thing, where DLSS frame gen requires at least the RTX 4060, which is more than enough to run wow (ok, maybe it would be useful if you’re trying to run wow at 4k maxed out settings on a 4060, but then you’ll be running out of VRAM and having other problems there).
What they need to do is improve how well the engine can utilize multiple CPU threads, since multi-core CPUs didn’t really start to become a thing in the home until the core2 duo in 2006, Quad core was the norm from ~2013-> 2017, when AMD’s Zen CPUs started to bring us to the current era with 6 and 8 core CPUs being the norm for new hardware.