Can a GTX 1060 max out WoW at 1920x1080?

[cytg111]

Isnt WoW one of those ancient 320x240 titles? Someone found out how to scale it to 1920x1080? Wow..


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[Tweak155]

For those playing under macOS, remember to enable Metal!

No more 20-30 frame dips when in big raids for me. It runs with around 100 fps at 3440 x 1440.

Never heard of this... can give it a shot... thanks!

 

[bystander36]

GF's system is Rig 2 in my sig.

Resolution: 2560x1080
GTX 780 Lightning +100 on core +200 on memory

Same spot, WoW settings set to 10 (Ultra)

FPS: 40-43
GPU Load 75%


Doing some research people with i7-6700k+1080s are reporting low FPS and low GPU usage.

GTX 1080 owners reporting as low as 40-50 FPS in Garrison (where I did my general testing) with 20-30% GPU usage.


Seems there is something holding the GPU usage from going up, at least in the garrisons area.

If it's a CPU bottleneck, it's something WoW had't experienced for a while. Prior to the 7.0 update, I was able to get 60 FPS @ 4K in my garrison.

Now I can't seem to break 50 FPS regardless where I go, and it's the same result @4K or @1440p. (Edit: if I look at the floor, I can get 100+ FPS haha)

You need to experiment with CPU clocks. See if you can see a difference if you drop the CPU by 1 Ghz or something. What you describe is most likely a CPU bottleneck, but I suppose some sort of internet bottleneck could exist too. I haven't played it recently, but WoW and all MMORPG's I've ever played behaved this way.

Also remember that an i7 is no faster than an i3 in WoW, if their IPC is similar.

 

[railven]

Well I finally got around to testing this.

New resolution:
3440x1440
Settings @ 10
Same spot I tested before, this time through in a fly around.

CPU @ 4.0 Ghz
GPU still 50-60% load
FPS still 30-40 range

CPU @ 4.6ghz (200mhz over my initial tests)
GPU still 50-60% load
FPS still 30-40 range

There was no perceived difference. I was expecting a huge dip in performance dropping my CPU to 4ghz. I was amazed it was didn't affect anything. (Though visual smoothness is probably due to G-Sync, however FPS numbers weren't negatively affected.)

I'm stumped. I'm starting to think it's a RAM issue, or related.

System RAM shoots up to 6.5-7GBs (this system only has 8, yeah I'm cheap )
GPU RAM shoots up to 6GB (pretty much all my 980 Ti has).

There is a good amount of hitching at the start of my tests. And the hitching resolves when my RAM gets filled up, but returns if I exit the area and return.

 

[railven]

Well I'll be damned. At some point my Memory speed was set to 1333mhz. I turned on XMP and it got set to 2133mhz and proper timings.

CPU @ 4.6ghz still, RAM set properly, no other changes, same spot tested.
FPS: 50-55
GPU load 70-75%

I didn't want to buy more RAM since at the time price sky rocketed during the tsunami incidents. And now I'd just rather switch to DDR4 with a whole new rig upgrade. But after Hybrid 1080 + X34, I don't think I can even ask the fiancee to let me get a whole new platform!

 

[zinfamous]

Jeez, 1060 rips this game to shreds. Perfect.

Thanks.

well, so does a 2gb 960.

 

[Ranulf]

Well I'll be damned. At some point my Memory speed was set to 1333mhz. I turned on XMP and it got set to 2133mhz and proper timings.

CPU @ 4.6ghz still, RAM set properly, no other changes, same spot tested.
FPS: 50-55
GPU load 70-75%

I didn't want to buy more RAM since at the time price sky rocketed during the tsunami incidents. And now I'd just rather switch to DDR4 with a whole new rig upgrade. But after Hybrid 1080 + X34, I don't think I can even ask the fiancee to let me get a whole new platform!

Ram is cheap these days. Another 8gb is at best $50 more, as cheap as $37.

 

[railven]

Ram is cheap these days. Another 8gb is at best $50 more, as cheap as $37.

Oh, I know, but at this point is do I want to keep "upgrading" a platform I don't plan on staying on for more than perhaps another year...for one game? And at that, is RAM the actual cause of the odd GPU load?

What I should do is steal the RAM from the basement RIG and give it a whirl haha.

 

[Arachnotronic]

Oh, I know, but at this point is do I want to keep "upgrading" a platform I don't plan on staying on for more than perhaps another year...for one game? And at that, is RAM the actual cause of the odd GPU load?

What I should do is steal the RAM from the basement RIG and give it a whirl haha.

What do you plan to upgrade to next platform wise?

 

[Headfoot]

If you're on 8GB RAM I'd say its worth moving up to 16GB even on your current platform. I wouldn't move beyond 16 though. There are some frame time / worst case scenario benefits to having more RAM than strictly necessary in some titles

 

[railven]

What do you plan to upgrade to next platform wise?

I was going to get Skylake, but now probably going to wait for Skylake-X or see what Kabylake brings to the table. Be nice to have an Intel 6-core processor if just for show, haha.

EDIT: oops forgot some names have changed :/

If you're on 8GB RAM I'd say its worth moving up to 16GB even on your current platform. I wouldn't move beyond 16 though. There are some frame time / worst case scenario benefits to having more RAM than strictly necessary in some titles

I'm just being a miser. It isn't the cost, just more so I've yet to run into an issue this system couldn't handle with just 8GBs of RAM. So upgrading it has never been on the table. If I want more RAM I can steal some from my basement rig. I personally don't think it would make a huge difference.

 

[Tweak155]

Never heard of this... can give it a shot... thanks!

As a follow up, this setting was on by default. So, no change

But I thought it was running decent to begin with so no real complaints.