I updated my OS to Windows 10 from windows 7. My wow retail now only runs at like 2 fps if that. I’ve already tried reinstalling it and it didn’t help. before windows 10 it ran okay, I have an older setup. looking for advice outside of buying a new pc.
did you update everything? I.e. drivers, motherboard chipset, and the whole slew? You’ll probably get better help in tech forum, but it just sounds like you need to update everything if what you said is true about your system being dated.
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Updating drivers is a good recommendation. I’d also dive into your graphics settings because there are myriad examples of people having their ingame video settings reset or changed from updating something else.
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You’ll want to get new chipset drivers for your motherboard and video drivers for your GPU.
The GPU layer had huge uplift between 7 to 10.
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You are battling a severe uphill fight… The hardware demand from 7 to 10 is real, so is the differences between those OS’s resource draw/use. Only things you can try is lowering settings, till playable, or look at upgrading GPU/Hardrive/mem You would e surprised at the difference just tween Generation 1 and 3 SSD Hell, I kept a dinosaur of a machine playing wow, for about 4 years past its decent ability…but just the demand differences those older 7 machines, still seem crisp and responsive after a clean reload right, but after all of win 7 updates are installed, look how slow they become. And thats in the same OS Generation. Now jump 2 more OS’s and imagine the demand.
Splitting hairs on my part but gen 1 SSDs had like 16k of cache. Gen 3 generally had 100MB+ cache. I ended up getting a RAID card with massive DRAM on gen 1 SSDs and as long as writes were in the cache everything was just as fast as today’s drives.
Of course nowadays a $50 NVME is cheaper and faster than my multi $1000 storage solution haha.
Anyway, everything Onecoolheel said is pretty much spot on.
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