My CPU and GPU usage is pretty low in dragonflight. I just upgraded to an RTX 4090 and Intel i9-13900k. I am currently sitting at 30-50% GPU usage and 10-20% CPU usage. Is this normal for WoW? I expected a bigger upgrade, but am currently getting around 75-90 FPS in Valdrakken City Center. I run Max everything (Ray Tracing is off though) at 4k. Is this just because of the optimization of WoW, or does something seem off?
Current Specs:
Intel I9-13900k
Gefore RTX 4090 24GB
ASUS ROG Strix 7690-E Motherboard
2TB Samsung 980 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD
4x 16GB Kingston Fury DDR5-6000 RAM (64GB)
EVGA Supernova 1300W G2 PSU
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Is your frame rate capped? if so that’s normal, your gpu is overpowered for WoW, it’s not demanding a lot to your GPU. Same with your CPU, WoW mostly only uses a few cores and they won’t be fully used. If you uncap your frame rate, usage should go higher and frame rate should skyrock to over 300.
The big city is hard to get high fps with 6000 people afk
I had it capped to 120 to match my monitors refresh rate, but I uncapped it and I’m still getting the same GPU usage and FPS. Just checked the city center, and I am only getting 10-12% CPU usage and 49-52% GPU usage.
Sorry I didn’t realized the fps your got was in the big city. In that case it could simply be a bottleneck by the game engine which limit cpu usage to only a few cores. If you look at an hardware monitor, you’ll see that WoW only fully uses a few cores which also limit what your GPU can work with.
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is your power settings <control panel - all control panel items - power options> are on Balanced (recommended) or High Performance?
Open cmd as admin…paste this and hit enter.
powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61
Ultimate Power mode.
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yeah, I have it set to the performance mode. Guessing it’s just a bottleneck with the CPU and wow’s engine.
Its just the game. Nothing you can do about it until Blizzard makes the game run better.
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You’re just experiencing the API/Game engine bottleneck of WoW.
I have a i9 13900k, 12GB RTX 3080 OC to 2100MHZ, 64GB DDR5 5600mhz Ram, 980 Pro M.2 drives and I get the EXACT same performance you do in Valdrakken at 4K. Your GPU is orders of magnitude more powerful than mine, and our FPS is identical in the city.
Go out into the world, or into a dungeon, and you will be at 150-200+ FPS situationally. Sometimes 400+.
Boils down to WoW not taking advantage of your/our multi core CPUs, and that being the bottleneck to the GPU. Turn RTX on and you’ll see GPU usage increase. Go 200% render scaling and you’ll see it increase more (but don’t keep it this way, no point).
My system I think (3080 12GB) is probably overkill for what WoW can take advantage of hardware wise - your 4090 probably won’t ever be utilized by WoW.
TL;DR it’s not you or your hardware, it’s WoW.
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i9 12900k
32gb ram
rx 6900 xt 16gb
vsync is off
fps cap is off
25% gpu and cpu usage in all the new content regardless of the number of people. infact, the only place that works as intended is the Empyrean Domain arena which is hilarious because in shadowlands that was the only place that had low GPU usage.
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Do you also get < 60 fps in Valdrakken?
I just went from a 3070 to a 4080 and it barely impacted performance, lol
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It’s a CPU bound game. CPU CPU CPU. Tht’s what you want to upgrade for WoW. The best value CPU for WoW at the moment is the Ryzen 58003DX if you’ve already got an AM4 motherboard. I got one for my missus. She gets the same farm-rates as my intel 13600KF, and she didn’t need to change her AM4 motherboard. Otherwise, the 13600K is probably the next best value CPU if you’re planning on upgrading or have an existing LGA1700 compatible motherboard. With the intel 13600 you’ll get the same framerates as a person with an intel 13900 CPU. So, no point spending that much more for a beefier intel, just for WoW. If you can wait, hold out for the 14000 series which is just around the corner.
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Same exact situation here. I beleive that the 4090 is so powerful (even at 4k) that the burden falls back on the CPU and RAM. I have a 4090 and 12700k. I turned on XMP (3600MHz) and turned on Turbo Boost 3 in the bios (Intel). This gave me slightly better numbers. Im waiting on a video from Hardware Numb3rs on Youtube to see if a newer, faster CPU and DDR5 high speed will help at all now.
I had a 6800XT and at 4k was seeing 99% usage constantly, and with 4090 get 45% usage in the same areas.
If WoW’s number of threads is limited, then I’m guessing that IPC improvements from newer CPUs along with huge clock speed boosts (think 14th gen boosting to 6GHz on some cores) might make up for the lack of optimization.
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is this the new delete system32 folder ‘‘fix’’? xd
Switch from DX12 to DX 11, your cpu and gpu usage will be as you expect. However you wont get rtx options, My FPS in city evened out as well on 3 diff systems. sys1 4080/13900k 32gb/ sys2 9900ks 3090ti 32gb / sys 3 9700k 2080ti ftw3. Wow technical team needs to take a serious look at updating this engine and permitting use of more cores they are going to literally cripple themselves.
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I can verify having gotten a 13900k to replace my 12700k:
Paying for the highest clock speed has the most benefit in this game. For Intel, you can download Extreme Tuning Utility, and do the auto overclocking. It will be within a couple hundred MHz of the advertised top speed. It only adjusts the voltage very slightly, and sets limits and conditions on itself so it doesn’t burn out your CPU by voltage adjustments, it’s really nice. I’m getting 5.6GHz now. Was getting 4.8GHz before with 12700k.
I used to get 70-90 FPS in town, now get 100-120. Again, this is at 4k. Places that were horribly choppy are now smooth. I say the CPU upgrades will be worth it at this point until you never dip in FPS below your monitor refresh (for me 144hz). Im always getting 144FPS unless im in a raid, or town. Raids are so much better now though, where it counts. Town is the ultimate test for it though.
With a 280mm AIO, highest core temps (2 of them) are 56-60C. Really not bad at all, and thats with auto voltage adjustments. The voltage goes back down when not being utilized.
Not sure why this crap is so poorly optimized. 7950x, 4090 Strix, WD SN850x, x670E Hero, and this runs like total dogshzzz. Sitting here wondering why im getting 115fps w/ shadows lowest and it just doesnt make sense.
Your frames seem on the low side for such a high end spec. I have my settings maxed out but have Ray Tracing turned off and will get around 80-85fps at 4k in Valdrakken. If I go into the pvp building my fps will go over 120fps. I have an RTX 3080 and Ryzen 5800x3d cpu. My gpu is pretty much pegged at 98-99% utilisation but cpu is only 25-30% and sometimes under 20% depending on zone. My gpu doesnt support DLSS 3 like yours and getting similar fps. Something doesn’t sound right with your fps especially when Dragonflight can use DLSS 3.