MultiThread Support Question

[Jessail-terenas (Jessail)]

Yeah something else smells weird, I’d check things like RAM clocks etc. You should never lock up at stock clocks.

[Smashy-burning-legion]

• Go to WoW.exe right click and check the “disable fullscreen optimization”
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• Right click on your desktop, Click NVIDIA Control panel, -> Manage 3D settings -> Program settings -> Add Wow.exe and select Power managment: Prefer maximum performance.
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• Right click on your desktop screen, click display settings , scroll down go to Graphic Settings -> Click the browse option and locate your WoW.exe file then select High performance.
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• TimerResolution 1.2 - Is a small and fast program just check it on Youtube before you download it and learn more about it… so simple and helps a lot.

[Portem-quelthalas]

i’m expecting a lot of activity happening at the tech support forums today. Something is bound to go south for 1050 and 1060 Nvidia series users.

[Canadiana-gilneas (Canadiana)]

The schedule Bliz is on to finally implement multi cores in right on track along with their bug fixings. The only thing taking resources away from those things in finding fun and nerfing it.

[Tsavis-area-52 (Tsavis)]

I hope it helps my toaster, lol.

[Airea-proudmoore]

@Smashy-burning-legion

WoWhead says that you need to copy these :

In order to test the new optimizations on PTR yourself, all you need to do is to set your Graphics API to DirectX 12, under System > Advanced settings, close your game and then add the following lines to the end of your Config.wtf file, located inside the WTF folder in your PTR installation:

SET gxMTPrepass “1”
SET gxMTOpaque “1”
SET gxMTDisable “0”
SET gxMTBeginDraw “1”
SET gxMTShadow "1

It seems these settings are no longer needed on Live. I just tried adding them to Config.wtf, but it will remove them as soon as you run WoW.

[Smashy-burning-legion]

hmm lets wait on the servers I guess, and see how it goes!

[Salana-lightbringer (Salana)]

How do I do this on a phone?

But seriously though. I have an old apple non-retina 15” apple laptop (quad i7 and 16gb of ram) on 10.13.16 with nvidia drivers. Besides springing up for an ssd to replace my 2tb sshd and reinstalling WoW (index files more organized to read the data files), there is nothing more I can do on my end. Only more improved and efficient code can help. Recently had to download an app to actually allow me to control my fan speeds since apparently there is a disconnect between WoW being cpu intensive and prone to generate heat and the OS as to when the fans are supposed to turn on. Was wondering for over a year why my laptop was getting so hot and had to put a fan on it and play in limited durations. OS reinstall and SMC reset did nothing.

Overall just waiting a bit for zen 2 to come out and ram prices to drop before I finish building my 2700 and 1080ti build.

[Tsavis-area-52 (Tsavis)]

I’ve been reading through this thread and people with high end computers have been having issues with running Wow, yet bfa’s recommends an 8 core amd processor that’s what the 8350 is. I wonder how much this will fix.

[Jessail-terenas (Jessail)]

Works fine on my machine (2700x, 32GB DDR4 @ 2800, 1080FTW)?

[Carnacki-nagrand (Carnacki)]

Was just tinkering with this, changed my settings to DirectX 12 and I’m seeing about 10% less fps than using DX11, still. It’s hard to benchmark consistantly but a simple test went from about 93 fps to 82 fps. No other settings changed. So either there are still bugs, or it’s not enabled, or it’s enabled but doesn’t actually work for everyone

Ryzen 7 2700x + GTX1070 for the record.

[Bluspacecow-muradin (Bluspacecow)]

@Airea-proudmoore

@Smashy-burning-legion

WoWhead says that you need to copy these :

In order to test the new optimizations on PTR yourself, all you need to do is to set your Graphics API to DirectX 12, under System > Advanced settings, close your game and then add the following lines to the end of your Config.wtf file, located inside the WTF folder in your PTR installation:

SET gxMTPrepass “1”
SET gxMTOpaque “1”
SET gxMTDisable “0”
SET gxMTBeginDraw “1”
SET gxMTShadow "1

It seems these settings are no longer needed on Live. I just tried adding them to Config.wtf, but it will remove them as soon as you run WoW.

To clarify here - the gxMT Cvars are always on by default when launching your world of warcraft client. You can use Console or the SetCVar command to set some of them to zero (pending a gxRestart) but they will not save anywhere. This would be why you can’t find them in config.wtf neither do those settings remain in config.wtf (or any other place on your hard drive)

This is regardless if your using D3D11 or D3D12. This does not mean the multi-threaded optimizations are usable in D3D11. Just that when it’s set to D3D11 it won’t use any of the MT cVars. You need D3D12 mode to take advantage of the multithreaded optimizations.

[Ikai-saurfang]

Its important to note, that while Geforce Experience has now been updated to detect World of Warcraft 8.1.

If you use it to optimize your settings, it seems to revert your settings back to DirectX 11, which disables the multi-threading. So make sure if you want to make use of the multi-threading that you change your settings back to DirectX 12 after optimizing.