i got a lesser system than yours and i got 142 fps@1440p (capped) everywhere unless i’m fighting in raid or in dorgonal when it’s full of people.
anyways even if you figure out whats slowing you down, keep in mind this game only uses 2 cores well and it’ll always perform like doodoo where there’s lots of other people doing things around you.
ex: i got stellar smoothness in 5man dungeons but it all goes out the window if i fly around dorg when it’s full of people. this current raid also has major dips in the middle of the fights.
I had this happen a few years ago. Had to send the PC box off for some service or other, and when I put all the cables back I accidentally cabbled into the wrong card slot.
I’m not very computer handy so its not surprising to me I did that.
I run 4K ultra settings 120fps constant on a card from last gen. Performance monitor says wow uses barely over half the total resources I have available to run like that /shrug.
If I had to guess at something, OP are you using DirectX 12 or DirectX 11?
My ultimate advice OP would be to make a post in the Technical Support forum. There are often blues there who can help you. I mean, many of the players here are very knowledgeable but you may get some more suggestions from that forum.
No if it is not checked than it does nothing. I would check if you applied anything outside of the game. Nothing in here at that resolution should be pulling the fps you are talking about. Maybe a dip down there, but nothing at that level. Do you see issues in other games? Are your drivers up to date? Have you applied anything from nvidia’s software to wow?
I’m running native 4k on a 6950xt with my 50inch sony bravia lol and the only reason I sit at 60fps is because I cap it to keep heat down and my fans don’t sound like a jet airplane. Something is seriously wrong with your PC.
for my video card, view distance, water quality and shadows seem to be the only things I can reduce to get the FPS increased…and it only goes so far in a city where a lot of players are wallowing about.
Cut the view distance to 5. Very doubtful you’ll need it better than that.
Shadows and water to maybe lowest or second lowest setting. Entirely not needed to play the game for them to be any higher.
the rest of the settings honestly dont seem to make any difference if their on or off, min or max from what I see. I can drop the rest of them down to nothing and the FPS dont change much.
As far as being in a city around a lot of other players, you’d probably have to have a seriously top end card / Rig to not take an FPS dive…ie its the game, not you, most likely.
Hey, sorry for the delay in getting back to you, I just saw your message today. Things have been pretty hectic lately.
I ran Heroic SC today and had my benchmarking tool active. Here’s what I recorded:
Average FPS: 118
Max FPS: 126 (not sure how, since I’m capped at 120)
Min FPS: 114 (but only for less than a second)
That fight pushed my temps way higher than usual, especially for a custom water-cooled setup. My CPU hit 81°C, and my GPU reached 72°C, which is way above what I typically see. My fans had to run at 60% almost the entire fight, which never happens otherwise.
Power draw during that fight was also significantly higher compared to every other encounter in the raid, so I’m pretty confident there’s some optimization issue going on.
For graphics settings, I’ve got everything maxed out except ray tracing. I also turn down particle effects, not to improve FPS but just to make things visible. WoW’s visuals can be absolutely overwhelming for me visually with everything going off at once.
I was having FPS problems in epic BGs, and the above was the main change I did which seems to be helping. That said, I still have weird FPS issues in Dorn, even when it doesn’t seem very populated.
Yeah, the main city is always low FPS because of all of the npc rendering and building details I’m assuming. I get 144 capped everywhere else, but like ~60 in Dorn.
I’ll check Dorn today, I feel like I don’t have frame rate drop there, but I don’t pay too much attention honestly. I’ll run and fly about with my benchmark software running and see what I get once everybody is done hanging out for the holidays.
