High end PC. Game FPS is low

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PC:
Been building for about 14 years. Upgraded to a full AMD build this go around - for whatever reason, certain titles seem to be jittery which includes WoW, regardless if I am running lowest or highest quality.

When I built the PC back in January everything was fine. tl;dr, I moved to Alaska and since it was shipped and unpacked the performance hasn’t been entirely the same.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600x
GPU: AMD GA 6800xt Master Aorus
Storage: GA gen4 Auros m.2 x3 (OS has dedicated m.2)
Mobo: GA AM4 Aero X570s
RAM: 32gb 3600mhz 16 cas lat by Ballistix

Cooling: Lian Li 360mm rad, top mount
7 additional Corsair fans
temps are great.

Monitor:
AW3420DW 120hz - Configured to make sure it’s actually displaying the 120hz

My in-game bench says it is floating between 100-120 regardless of quality, but the amount of jitters I see - it’s not actual.

At a bit of a loss on this one.

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Man I wish I knew. I have the same problem. I’ve had endless trouble with my PC. It says the framerate is 100, but nothing displays smoothly. At least not as smoothly as it should. Not just in game either, but any video at all, whether youtube or from the hard drive. I feel like it’s most apparent with vertical movement. My go to for checking it when I play around with settings is the WoD cinematic, at the very end where it pans up to show the dark portal. Always staggers.

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some questions…

  1. what do you have the game installed on?
  2. graphics drivers up to date?
  3. is your gpu and/or gpu memory overclocked?
  4. isp speeds? plus ms?
  5. do you have a screenshot of all temperatures including cpu, gpu and others?
  6. could something have been damaged in the move? do you see any visible issues?
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My computer is so old and even when it was new it was just middle of the road. I literally can’t play the game sometimes because of slow loading screens and just crashing in general.

It handles other games thought so I dunno

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Your first mistake is going with AMD…

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Could be an issue with the GPU drivers.
I was talking with my brother recently as I am going to be buying parts for a new PC soon and he was telling me to avoid AMD. He’s been having nothing but trouble with his card.

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  1. GIGABYTE AORUS Nvme Gen4 M.2 500GB
  2. I actually had to update right after I posted - made no difference, though.
  3. No
  4. Just shy of 100mb down, 15 up (bites, not bits)
  5. 56c for my GPU with WoW open , CPU 53c
  6. Nothing has been damaged as far as I am aware. WoW is the only title at the moment with these weird FPS jitters
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I’ve been building since the 600 series Nvidia cards.

I’d agree with you back then up until the last few years because of performance. AMD has caught up very quickly, especially when the Ryzen was first launched.
~The Red Devil 6900xt out performed the Nvidia cards in terms of OC potential but nobody really cares, OCing isn’t necessary IMO~

In terms of this generation of GPU performance, AMD has been giving Nvidia a run for their money.
Biggest thing Nvidia has AMD on is Ray Tracing, but I never cared about it. I upgraded from Zotac’s 1080ti AMP Extreme which was a hell of a card that lasted me about 4 years.

I chose AMD this time simply because the performance was on par with Nvidia, and back in January the 6800xt offers performance around the 3080/3080ti benchmark and it costed 500 US dollars less at the time of purchase.

I had a big Intel/Nvidia bias but over the years, that has faded - more so the past 5 years ish.

Performance of my build, outside of my current WoW issues, all titles have consistently maxed my refresh with high quality.

Likely an overlooked setting.

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Silly question but is the frame limiter on?
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Also disable Raytracing if its enabled. Same menu

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Yep, I matched it with the max refresh of my monitor which is 120.

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My FPS is usually around 50 or if its with half as many people, 100fps. I’m on bleeding hollow currently and my FPS is at 29, MS is 48. VPN off, w/ VPN it drags butt like my dog in the backyard.

I don’t think its your pc, but it could be. The FPS thing is more of a recent nuisance I’ve experienced.

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That is your issue. The wow Frame limiter DOS NOT work as it should it undercuts the desired frame rate sometimes by a LOT. I have it disabled and turned on G-Sync. Disable it and turn on G-Sync/Free Sync

Try that and see if it fixes your issue. You can also turn off ray tracing if its on

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Yep, a life saver for sure. I have two monitors.

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Let me say I am not an AMD fan or an Intel fan. Being a fanboy of either is silly and it makes us lose in the end as consumers. I just go with the facts. I pick whatever side has the best technology when doing my build. So here are the facts. The 5800x 3D out performs every CPU on the market in wow. Its a CPU based game.

Source

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Ok im not even joking here, i had the same issue and i have a high end pc. change your DX12 to DX11… i did this and i ended up getting like almost 200 fps bonus… for no freaking reason, i hope that solves it

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Your a Tauren in Green sunglasses. Nothing you say can be taken seriously.

JK. I like u :heart:

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I also found the AMD software to be much less intrusive.

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I own a 5800x and it is just an absolute disgustingly powerhouse of a cpu and i used to own a 3900x that won the silicon lottery and let me tell you… 5800x is just a monster