I purchased a brand new Dell i7 with 32 GB of RAM, a SSD drive and an NVIDIA Quadro P600 video card. This was an upgrade from the old i5 with 16 GB of RAM with a standard hard drive. I always run 2 monitors. Windows 10 Pro. Updated video drivers.
On my old computer, I’ve never experienced any screen delays. Meaning, screen locks up, or is sluggish to respond. I am running EXACTLY the same programs as I was before. Not much running in background. I keep turning the video performance down in WoW and it’s still the same. Currently at level 4. Used to run at 8 smoothly on older computer. I could go back and forth between screens (ie look up wowhead) and never experienced any graphical lag.
Does anyone had any advice to make WoW run smooth on this new computer? Something I’ve missed?
Thank you!
p.s. The only other thing I’ve noticed with this computer is the fan seems to either run more, or is louder than before. Not sure if that’s a SSD thing or not.
Quadro cards in general are going to be unsupported as there generally meant for workstations rather than gaming. May have a few suggestions but will want to get a DxDiag to take a look. When posting the DxDiag please format it by encasing it with a set of ~~~ like so:
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One thing you may try right now is testing the game with a different graphics API. This setting can be found in the Advanced section of the game settings.
Let’s use PasteBin instead then. Can copy the contents there and then link it here. If you’re unable to post links, you can get around the restriction by using the same formatting for the DxDiag I listed above. Or just post the portion after the .com.
We can try grabbing the updated Nvidia drivers here.
Let’s also disconnect the external monitor and test with just the laptop display.
As the computer is fairly new, the power settings may be set to Balanced. Let’s make sure that’s set to High Performance. You can open the power settings by pressing the Windows + R key and entering powercfg.cpl in the Run window that appears.
If you’re able to on this laptop, let’s try running the game with the Intel graphics. If its an option, then the steps here under Manually Configure Optimus should help
Power settings already changed. Got an error when trying to download those drivers. "The current Standard Windows Driver Type cannot be installed on this system. Your system is configured to require a DCH Windows Driver Type that you can download from nvidia.
I will try playing directly from the laptop, as well as switching to the onboard video next.
That Quadro P600 is the culprit and the difference between a Workistation GPU and a Gaming GPU is a world of difference and this should put things into perspective for you.
Nvidia Geforce 2080 Ti = the Chevy Corvette of GPU’s powerful V8 engine.
Nvidia Quadro P600 = the Chevy Corvette of GPU’s with a lawnmower engine.
Most of the Quadro cards actually have the same GPU in them as the GTX/RTX cards they are just slight differences . For example the P600 has a GP107. The benchmarks show it’s performance between a GT 1030 and a GTX 1050.