No joke. Turning SSAO off along with setting shadows to “high” reduces the load enough that a Vega 56 can push 60FPS @5120x2880 (5k) in Boralus. Turning either setting back on/up halves that and requires 50% render scale (2560x1440) to get 60FPS on the same card.
If some data is of any help, I have a USB 3.1 type C (not even TB3) NVMe SSD enclosure that gets 1.2GB/s read/write, which isn’t as fast as internal NVMe but over twice as fast as internal SATA. Very snappy, can see games loading off of it well.
Dunno about the eGPU though, never played with that.
ty all, looks like i will be able to play SL with my rig, but instead preordering it, i’ll better wait until it releases and ask here again how are you PC running the game
yeah…SSAO is literally about 25% of my FPS if its on the highest setting.
and I cant honestly tell any difference with it on and off. Course, I dont even know what Im looking for, lol.
It’s meant to be a (very) rough approximation of the shadows caused by real-world ambient light.
You know how IRL during the day, light comes from all directions, especially on cloudy days (with clouds scattering sunlight)? That light casts subtle soft shadows in edges, corners, etc. It’s particularly visible on manmade structures with a lot of hard angles.
SSAO is an algorithm that draws those soft shadows, and to keep it (relatively) efficient, it only takes into account object directly on screen, hence the name Screen Space Ambient Occlusion.
There’s a requirement for BfA that I don’t meet yet it still runs good! I don’t know if it’s just to bait us in buying new parts to help other businesses or whatever but it should run fine!
heh…Ive turned it on…and off…and on…and off…and …just trying to figure out what Im missing with it off. My eyes must be really old or something. Every now and then I think I MIGHT see some minute difference in how things look but its so minor that I just cant see giving up even 1 or 2% of my performance over, let alone a full 25%, lol
Shadows do make a big visual difference, but I even keep those down to nil.
What I turn up full blast is Particle Density (love those effects in ToT when the serpent heads are all blasting you from all directions, lol) , Texture resolution and Texture Filtering…with AA set at FXAA High.
Everything else I just dont care enough about to give up any performance at all.
Liquid detail seems to be best on fair for being able to see the fish pools, so I leave it there.
Environment settings all three of them on 5.
Vertical Sync enabled to reduce tearing.
Everything else on the lowest setting.
Dude, it’s $20! You will kick yourself for not doing it earlier. Just load Windows and WoW on the SSD, and keep everything else on your HDD. Or, just get a bigger SSD for everything.
You can run it but it won’t get very high frame rates at all, especially if you are on a high refresh screen or a 2k screen.
I am playing on a 2k 144hz screen on ultra settings across the board and I’m running an RTX 2070 with an 8700k. I don’t get FPS past 125 in most situations, but it’s still worth it for how good the game looks.
10% is not insignificant at all, especially when trying to hit high rez FPS. But yes, the solid single core of the 8700k is a huge part of it, and it beats the 3600 if i remember.
Meh. Be better off waiting until the holidays roll around. Bought a 1 terabyte Crucial ssd for $99 during the holidays last year. I mean, if all you are doing is playing warcrack on a pc then 125 would probably suffice. But yeah a ssd is the biggest(or best) upgrade you can make imo for wow anyways.
But why do graphics card have to be so damned expensive? “Um honey, I need to get a new card to play my computer games, and it’s only $750. You don’t have a problem with that, right?”
Yeah if WoW on ultra settings (assuming 60hz 2560x1440 or 1920x1080), “destroys” a 2080Ti, something is very wrong. Most likely, the card isn’t getting cooled sufficiently (if at all) and is throttling or the PSU can’t supply ample current (though the latter usually causes the PC to shut off or crash). My tower with a 5700XT, which is equivalent to a 2070 Super at its best, handles WoW on ultra with 2560x1440 60hz without breaking a sweat.
Alternatively, he’s paired a killer GPU with a crap CPU and he’s CPU bottlenecked… I don’t know why anybody would do that though.
High end GPUs are pricy and not really worth the extra cost IMO. Midrange is where it’s at — grab a 5700 XT or 2070 for $350-$400 and get 90% of the performance for half the price.
I’m running a 1060, but also using a Ryzen 7 3800x, wow is definitely a cpu heavy game. I get 100+FPS in everything on ultra. I wouldn’t be concerned about your gpu as long as your cpu is up to date
