Low FPS with AMD RX 7600 XT card

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Hi guys

Just wondering if anyone has come across this with AMD cards. I just bought this card today and for the life of me I can’t get it to go past 50fps in WoW and possibly Overwatch but I can’t find the fps option on that.

Anyway, my older nvidia 2060 will do 144fps in WoW. This is driving me crazy so if anyone knows how to fix this that would be much appreciated.

So far I’ve tried fiddling around in the WoW graphics settings, re-installing the AMD software using card drivers only and not the rest of their stuff (so barebones).

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Are any of the AMD-specific features, such as Radeon Chill enabled?
Did your in-game FPS limits change with the driver swap, or also your monitor’s FPS settings?
Are you using upscaling in-game in WoW (such as FSR)?

I’ve had 0 issues with AMD’s Adrenalin software, and it’s pretty useful overall, especially if you decide to run AFMF2 and want to track your framerate and latency in realtime.

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Is this working fine for you? I had to turn it off because it starts bugging out pretty bad once I alt tab a few times.

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Yeah. Are you using the new preview driver for AFMF2? Otherwise, the standard stuff only has version 1 on it.

There’s a slight hitch as it deactivates/reactivates, but it works great. Set monitor to 240 hz, and in-game to 120-121 hz. It’s been much more stable than AFMF1, and I haven’t crashed or had it bug out at all in WoW.

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I am. There’s a slight hitch as you said and then it starts working. But sometimes it just keeps hitching and hiccuping nonstop til I restart the game, that never happens to you?

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Nope. Runs great. How consistent is your framerate, cause my 1% lows are like 94 FPS at the worst. I’m running a 7800X3D and 7900 XT, though.

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3700x and 6700 xt, adrenaline is reading lows of 80s atm. But like it works completely fine, except every now and then on tab backs it just keeps hiccuping and never “locks”. I wonder if it’s something on my end or the driver itself.

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Sounds like you’re getting some other kind of stutter. Your CPU is kinda weak these days for WoW, but do you get any stutter with it deactivated?

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Nope. It’s not normal stutter while it’s activated either, it’s that exact hiccup that happens once it’s trying to lock, except it loops.

With it deactivated everything works fine. And with it activated once it locks in properly it works fine too.

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Do you have any auto-scaling features, such as AMD’s super resolution, or enhanced sync?

I’d monitor your GPU stats while it’s running and see what’s happening as it does this. Adrenaline can tick on stats for every facet of it, though it’s limited on CPU stats.

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just afmf2 and anti-lag.

On the stats what happens when it works normally is the frame gen latency starts at 50ms and quickly drops to 8-9ms when it stabilizes.

When it doesnt lock, it varies between 50-100ms then goes N/A then back to 50-100 ms and loops between that.

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I have no issues at all. Frame gen is 4-5 ms latency stable, and native frame latency never even cracks 5 ms. Your native will differ depending on your cap, but mine is 240 hz.

You could check if your card is thermal throttling by monitoring the temps and clocks in Adrenalin. A technically possible, but unlikely scenario is capping VRAM. From my own tests, WoW never eats more than ~9.2 gigs, even with AFMF on and Ray Tracing maxed at 1440p (native), and the 6700 XT is a 12 gig card. I have some settings ticked down (View Distance, Ray Tracing off) and it’s only averaging 6.6 gigs usage, so I doubt this is the case.

Beyond that feature itself, the only thing I could think is you’re triggering a hitch from something else. You could try enabling/disabling the new feature boxes at the bottom of the WoW graphics settings, and see if anything helps.

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Mhm. Thank you for the suggestions, it doesn’t seem to be throttling, mine is capping at around 4GB ram used. temps seem super okay too.

I think I’ll just keep rebooting the game when it happens, it happens enough to be annoying but not enough to be a dealbreaker.

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So I’ve re-installed the Adrenalin software but nothing has changed framerate wise.

The Radeon Chill setting was off by default so I turned it on and fiddled with the FPS slider but no luck. My monitor does up to 144FPS and I’ve tried swapping refresh rates on that but no luck.

I changed the AMD FidelityFX setting in WoW to Bilinear and the other two options and nothing changed.

Using DirectX 11. I’m in Org atm and the FPS fluctuate from the 50’s up to 110’s. If I go into Valdrakkan the FPS is around 35. Maybe I should smash this card to pieces with a hammer and go back to my nVidia one. :sob: :grinning:

Here’s a screenshot of that Adrenalin app showing the FPS in WoW.

https ://i.imgur.com/OLWdb4z.jpg

I can’t post links atm so need to remove that space after the https bit :+1:

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DirectX 11 probably has a lot to do with your FPS being low. I know a lot of people were using this as a band-aid for the Driver Timeout problem AMD had for a long time in this game. As of, I think, two drivers ago, it’s mostly gone, and I’ve only triggered it when crashing an aggressive undervolt.

The upscaler only activates if your resolution is set to less than 100%. Given that the feature is broken, and actually hurts your framerate, you want to leave it at 100% (native).

I presume your GPU is actively being used by WoW, and you don’t have any onboard graphics that could be picked (either by WoW, or in the BIOS).

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Using DX11 or 12 makes no difference atm.

But you did bring up a good point about the BIOS. Maybe it’s werth having a look around in there and see if something can be switched off. :+1:

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It was happening to a few guildies day before yesterday. I will try and explain something they tried but not sure if it worked. Under game options then graphics then advanced click off auto detect and choose which you have, then change to direct 11. Hope that works and apologize for my non tech explanation.

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If you have an Intel CPU, make sure the game is using your AMD GPU and not integrated graphics. Options>Graphics>Graphics card

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What’s your CPU? i dont see if u already mention it.

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Hi Byscilla, my CPU is an Intel i7-12700KF 3.60 GHz. OS is Win 11 64 bit.

I still haven’t had any luck werking out why the card isn’t going to it’s full potential. The only thing I have left to do is throw it into my spare machine and see what happens. After stuffing around with it most of the weekend I sorta gave up and had to walk away because it was doing my head in. lol