Just came back to retail for the first time since Legion. I have a recent gaming computer that has i5 11400, GTX 1660 Super, 1TB SSD and 16GB ram and I get recommended setting of 3. When I max everything out, I get 100+ fps on 4k. Why does it recommend a setting of a piddly 3?
Considering a 1660 S would never get those frames at 4k, I find this claim dubious at best.
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Good for you! Maybe it’s because I haven’t went to any of the newer areas yet? On classic wrath I get around 180 fps on 4k. The only thing I turn off is AA. That is a fps killer and I see no visual difference with it on.
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If you have everything maxed out then why is it telling you a 3 setting? Doesn’t make sense. You would have overrided what WoW gave you.
Mine does the same thing. Usually it detects right and does the right recommendation. But some versions/releases it recommends a 2, but I crank it up to 7 and it’s fine.
You can leave it at 3 and manually change individual settings. I must have been missing something because when I turned the actual slider up to 10, I only get around 70 fps. With vertical sync on, it holds a steady 60 fps.
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yes that’s what vertical sync does… it syncs fps to your monitor’s refresh rate
leave it off unless you see screen tearing basically
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I leave it on to keep the heat down. 60 fps is good enough for me.
Oh yeah. Just seems weird that you have everything maxed out but that slider is at 3. That’s super low in the settings department. Anyway, if it’s saying 3 but you’ve got everything at max and it looks good…who cares 
it can do that, but it also causes some input lag IIRC, I think you’d be better off just using the built in frame limiter in the options menu and just set it to 60 or 80
but that’s just my opinion
I play on 55 inch 4k Hisense H9G and sit about 3 feet away and I hate tearing. On game mode, the input lag is about 15 ms. Yeah I know that’s not nearly as good as an actual gaming monitor but it’s decent enough.
I hear you there. I absolutely hate it, too. Getting a g-sync compatible monitor was such a nice boost. I can turn off vsync and still have no screen tearing.