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GETing low frames on WOW. with gts250.

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timbarna

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Hello, i recently purchased a i7 920 / MSI x58 platinum / GTS 250. 3 gigs-1800 ddr3. and i'm getting 20-30 FPS in wow a 5 year old game RIDICULOUS! i gto more frames on my mobile video card on my laptop.

My friend also bought a similar set up. GTX260 i7920 and Evega mobo forget the models....

but he increased his voltage to his ram. seeing as how the i7 920 runs equivocally with ram. he went from 10FPS to 200+ fps AWESOME i said. lets do it to mine.

Didnt happen, blue screen and such. wrong settings.

MY QUESTION IS- what can i do to my settings to make my Frames go up. (NOT IN-GAME Settings)~~
 
Your CPU, board, and memory are fine. No reason to touch those. There were some interesting reports regarding i7 and core affinity on WOW. You may check out the following thread:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=299453

Or, you could simply upgrade your video card. I think that alone will bring you much better FPS.

Welcome to AnandTech Forums.
 
this thread makes no sense. A GTS 250 is not gonna be a problem with Wow. Something is seriously wrong here. Your friend had 10fps, then went to 200+fps, all with the same GTX260, just with memory voltage? BBQ+WTF?

Reload your video drivers, get the latest from nvidia.com. Something is borked. That hardware can easily run the shit out of WoW unless your ISP is shite.
 
Welcome to Anandtech Forums, timbarna.

A few things I want to point out. First is that WoW's graphical engine has been updated, basically every major upgrade (especially expansions) sees the graphics updated. Thus, while it is a 5 year old game, if you are able to run it on a fresh install from CDs without any patches and then run it fully patched on the same computer right afterwards, you'll see that there is a definate performance and quality difference (as in framerates go down but visual quality goes up).

Second, you need to measure framerates at the same exact place in WoW. If you are in Dalaran for instance, if everything is turned up then you will NOT be getting anywhere close to 200+ FPS. Heck, you won't even be getting 50+ FPS. Framerates will vary greatly depending on where you are and what's going on at the time.

Third, without increasing clock speeds, it is absolutely impossible for just a simple voltage increase to increase performance. Voltage increases generally allow overclocks to go a bit higher (to a certain extent). It is the higher overclock that gives better performance. The voltage increases just allows for that possibility, but doesn't give the performance increase directly.

For increasing WoW performance on your particular rig, here's a couple suggestions:

Make sure "Shadows" is NOT turned up all the way because that will give a huge hit in framerate.

Overclock your CPU as much as possible, because WoW is fairly CPU bound. AFAIK it is only dual threaded, so if it helps the overclock (which it can) you might want to try disabling HyperThreading.
 
reguardless of in game settings/everything SHOULD be full blast and i should be pushing at least 200 fps with my set up. i changed the cores what which it runs on(forget what its called). i saw no difference.

im thinking of buying new ram maybe that will help the xm suff.

yea and my friend with the same setup/ except Mobo is getting 400+ in dalaran.... riddle me that

i think he said something along the lines of, " the way the made the i7 is to run through the ram more so then other processors" so he uped his volts and WHAM!!!!
 
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There is no way your friend is getting 400fps in DaLAGran unless he's playing at 4am and looking at the ground.
 
timbarna said:
400+ in dalaran....
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I call shens! Seriously, if everything is turned up all the way and you are running 1080p resolutions, I don't think there is any hardware available today that can get 400+ FPS in Dalaran, or anywhere close.
 
Zap said:
Welcome to Anandtech Forums, timbarna.

A few things I want to point out. First is that WoW's graphical engine has been updated, basically every major upgrade (especially expansions) sees the graphics updated. Thus, while it is a 5 year old game, if you are able to run it on a fresh install from CDs without any patches and then run it fully patched on the same computer right afterwards, you'll see that there is a definate performance and quality difference (as in framerates go down but visual quality goes up).

Second, you need to measure framerates at the same exact place in WoW. If you are in Dalaran for instance, if everything is turned up then you will NOT be getting anywhere close to 200+ FPS. Heck, you won't even be getting 50+ FPS. Framerates will vary greatly depending on where you are and what's going on at the time.

Third, without increasing clock speeds, it is absolutely impossible for just a simple voltage increase to increase performance. Voltage increases generally allow overclocks to go a bit higher (to a certain extent). It is the higher overclock that gives better performance. The voltage increases just allows for that possibility, but doesn't give the performance increase directly.

For increasing WoW performance on your particular rig, here's a couple suggestions:

Make sure "Shadows" is NOT turned up all the way because that will give a huge hit in framerate.

Overclock your CPU as much as possible, because WoW is fairly CPU bound. AFAIK it is only dual threaded, so if it helps the overclock (which it can) you might want to try disabling HyperThreading.
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Who are you and where did you come up with this? A core i7 processor does not need overclocking to run WOW. That's nuts. The most CPU intensive games out there can hit 60fps on a 920 with graphics on low--it's not the CPU. Indeed, if OP has OC'd his machine, I would recommend trying again at stock settings just in case there's a memory issue with the OC'd machine.

Okay, you're right to try disabling hyperthreading.
 
OKay, i changed my affinity to 255 using 8 cores, and bought new XMP 6gigs of ddr3 1600, i am now getting 100 solid, and 200+ in dalaran. it was my ram.... and the XMP setting in the bios!
 
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