My game generally runs Okay, but I still suffer from low fps in raid especially when 8+ targets on the screen. I have my settings turned to low in raid to comprimise, and still get fps drops and occasional stutter in raid.
I’m looking for a CPU that can run WoW with ease and get the most of my 4k monitor and can play everything on high quality.
I’m considering maybe picking up a 12th gen Intel, or maybe waiting for 13th gen?
Maybe open to ryzen also.
I do want a cpu that can also multi task as I have a second monitor that I like to watch videos on while I play, and have work stuff open in the background. So I’m looking for at least a 8 core (16 thread processor)
Any advice would be nice. I know intel 13th gen is coming out in a few weeks so I see things are on sale now, but maybe they will be even more discounted when it launches.
Maybe when DF comes out, the new UI can help you cut back on some of the addons you are having to use. I trimmed my addons back and my lag is mostly all gone. Sounds like your resources are just going to the addons. Just my opinion.
I spent weeks trying to figure out what was causing fps issues, especially in 20+ player raids, and it turns out it was just a bunch of old weakauras. Deleted them and it was like getting a brand new system
No matter the config (graphics, memory and cpu), you can have stutter if your addons will be opening up a database while making heavy graphics updates while you’re in a raid or world boss. It could be a broken or inefficient plugin, or it could be a large database app like TSM that eats up application memory.
No addons? Honestly, I don’t know, I’ve never tried that
Spend the time on “free” first - then the upgrades - because you have a problem that’s most likely going to return after the upgrade. Notwithstanding a few cases where Blizzard’s aging engine causes problems with world bosses.
You would need to figure out what your motherboard will even support.
Your computer already has more resources than it needs to run World of Warcraft at any setting. It sounds like what you do with WoW running in the background is something system-heavy like video editing or 3D rendering so you may actually want a second computer entirely for your video games.
Unless your rich (in that case God bless you as I’m certainly not) I’d just optimize your setup first.
Some addons are killers are on the cpu.
Evaluate and research what addons you want and ensure you read up on any performance issues with them and of course make sure you are running the latest version.
This will be controversial to some but max graphics at 4k in wow is not a visual significance over 2k . At least nothing I could tell.
I have an 8th gen intel 32 gb ram 1080 system . Now I no longer raid but I run 2k 144 mhz at ultra graphics and my frames while not stellar avg 80 in the world with dungeons they can fluctuate down to 60.
My only point is my 4 year plus old system plays wow fine and it looks good. Your system is far better than mine.
It’s your resolution. The true culprit is Wow’s game engine, its terrible.
WoW can ONLY handle 2 CPU cores properly, so keeping that in mind, the amount of data being pumped around is going to bottle neck somewhere doing 4k (between the engine/cpu)
Crank down the resolution and/or Hz, this will make it better as this will remove a lot of stress the game is having.
To me spunds like you need to clean up your pc and perhaps reinstall your vid card driver.
I have 3070 with amd 5600x and i sit at 144fps in raid. I do have 1440p output. But with your spec you should be doing way better.
You could probably stand to upgrade your processor to a newer gen, but 10 isn’t terrible. Also, not sure what monitor you’re using, but since you have a GeForce card, getting a monitor with G-Sync, if you don’t have one, makes an incredible difference imo.
That being said, I still occasionally have graphic skips-freezes in game. It has to be addons. I’m going to guess it’s probably Elvui causing them since it can be a resource hog. If I could find a custom UI with the same functionality that uses less resources, I would switch.
The majority of the time I’m getting 300 fps even in cities with my RTX 3060, 32GB DDR5/5200MHz, Intel i5-12600K and my 2 ssds-PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD - Seq R/W: Up to 5150/4900 MB/s, Rnd R/W up to 740/800k. I also made sure my MB could support the ram and SSD speeds.
While WOW has improved upon this in recent years. It is still heavily single thread speed dependent. As others have said check add-ons. You could spend a lot of money for a beast CPU and look at overclocking for a small increase if you really wanted to though. You wont be getting 144 fps in raids regardless.
