What was the average fps people were getting playing wow back in 06?
30 @ 1024×768 would be my guess. Getting 150 @ 2k now. It’s glorious.
I averaged around 20-30 in solo world play. In raids it probably dropped to 10ish. Certain fights like Vaelastrasz, it tanked to 5 or lower.
I cap my FPS @ 30 on my 2080TI/i9 9900k rig just to get that authentic feel. It’s not real vanilla if I’m not constantly skipping frames the second a mage starts doing anything on my screen.
Now I just need to figure out how to slow down my M2.NVME SSD, so I can replicate the authenticity that was my old Gateway PC’s hard drive–such that the Zepplin or Boat is already leaving again by the time I finish loading, and I have to madly scramble to make it off before getting trapped in another loading screen
(Spoiler: I often didn’t, and found myself swimming to shore for minutes at a time).
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Pretty sure my terrible laptop got about 10-15 in raids back in the day. It was a struggle.
I remember I had just built a monster rig back then and overclocked the bejezuz out of it. (I think it was an xp2500 athlon and a Radeon x800xt)
I was getting mostly 60-85 fps unless in an area with hundreds of players like a big world pvp happening.
In Ironforge I had to call a friend and he had to guide me through… literally it was pictures on screen… walk a little forward then turn left… ohh too much left go right a little okay now forward… it was a nightmare. Had to get a casual job in school and build a new PC.
so roughly 30fps - interesting
Around 15 fps and an absolute slide show at times. I remember flying in to Darkshire, when the town popped into render distance it was like 5 visible frames from flying to landing, like a power point. In Deadmines at the boat the render distance was so low you couldn’t see you were in a cave, the ceiling just rendered as sky,
Going to IF meant lagging out hardcore, like running into walls for minutes because your PC was so overwhelmed. You could show every frame I saw in major cities during my 1-30 experience in a short power point presentation haha.
Down the road Half Life 2 came out and I upgraded to an ati graphics card, surprisingly at the time HL2 was running a lot better than WoW, I only had 512mb of ram and didn’t know much about PC specs at the time.
One day I upgraded from 512mb of ram to 1gb and the world changed forever, I went from laggy slide shows to smooth solid crystal clear lag free stutterless beauty. I played for so long with garbage performance when all I needed to do was spend $100 on 512mb of ram lol.