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I have to be missing something. Upgraded from 4950 to 6950 Radeon and no improvement.

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notty22 said:
Does the OP have a 64 bit O/S with the 2gb card. Also, I'm thinking there is slower ddr2 there.
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Sorry for the delay, seems the flu has hit me and my computer. Let me answer questions:

Running 32bit Windows7
Tried shadows on and off, hardly any difference in org, cant try in raid until Sunday.
Tried lowering my overlock, for shits and giggles in case that had anything to do with it, to 2.7 and then ran http://3dmark.com/3dmv/2938287

Results dont look terrible, maybe its a combo of the game and my cpu?
I am pretty close to just reinstalling and see if that helps. Why not? I am home sick today.. 🙁
 
Your cpu is holding you back theres no doubt about it. I recently upgraded my q6600 to the i5 2500k in my sig without changing my video card. In Wow my fps in crowded cities and 25-man raids with a lot of action went up from ~25fps to ~45fps.
 
Well I am on a pretty strict budget, and after looking, only a i3 550, decent mobo, and ram would fit my budget. From what i am gathering, not that big of an upgrade, correct me if thats wrong. I wouldn't mind spending a little for a noticeable upgrade, but thats where im at right now 🙁.
 
Add the dx11 setting to your config.wtf like happy medium said, it greatly improves multithreading and can be 20%-30% boost.

If you ever added a CPU affinity mask to your config.wtf you can remove that as it should be automatic now.
 
is that factoring in a sale of your current cpu/mobo/ram? ip35 pro was one of the best p35 mobos at ANY price, and q6600 + 4gb ddr2 still brings decent $$$ as well.

If you still can't afford a 2500k system then your next best move is to use the updates/tweaks discussed in here and also get serious about your q6600 overclock. Unfortunately, I have that exact cpu cooler and you won't get much over 3.1-3.2 stable. however, a couple years ago I moved my cnps9700 to a q9450 (and later to a 1055t...man that zalman's like the madonna of cpu coolers...but I digress) and replaced it with a used tuniq tower that I got off ebay for $35 or so. Get the tuniq, lap it AND the cpu, and you should get 3.6+ out of that q6600 at least, probably netting you at least a 6-9 month reprieve from your upgrade bug.
 
NoQuarter said:
Exactly how bad is the fps anyway?
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checking again, even with the dx11 config trick, 17-31 in the last minute. In raids it chugs enough to bother me. Thinking with my budget I will just have to deal with it for now until I can afford the better cpu.
I do however see a reformat in my near future.
 
bryanW1995 said:
is that factoring in a sale of your current cpu/mobo/ram? ip35 pro was one of the best p35 mobos at ANY price, and q6600 + 4gb ddr2 still brings decent $$$ as well.

If you still can't afford a 2500k system then your next best move is to use the updates/tweaks discussed in here and also get serious about your q6600 overclock. Unfortunately, I have that exact cpu cooler and you won't get much over 3.1-3.2 stable. however, a couple years ago I moved my cnps9700 to a q9450 (and later to a 1055t...man that zalman's like the madonna of cpu coolers...but I digress) and replaced it with a used tuniq tower that I got off ebay for $35 or so. Get the tuniq, lap it AND the cpu, and you should get 3.6+ out of that q6600 at least, probably netting you at least a 6-9 month reprieve from your upgrade bug.
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Excellent advice :thumbsup:. buck, you should focus on squeezing every last drop of performance out of that Q6600 while you save up for a new Sandy Bridge-based rig. Grab a used cooler off the forums or eBay and overclock it as high as you can (without hurting the thing 😛). Alternatively, you can grab a beastly new cooler that is compatible for both socket 775 and socket 1155, like the Megahalems Revision B - http://www.directron.com/megahalemsrevb.html?gsear=1 , and then just swap it over when you get the rest of your rig :awe:. Either way, your CPU is what's holding you back right now.
 
Skurge said:
Does having a 2GB card with windows 7 32bit have anything to do with it?
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I would say yes. But its technical , exactly whats going on.
I'm not sure how much total ram he has, but I belive the O/s tries to ghost memory addresses for all the gpu memory it sees, (2gb in this case) making that memory unavailable to the rest of the system.
 
Fayd said:
my experience is with Lineage 2, but it might be applicable to wow.

most of the crappy performance problems i saw was a poorly programmed game that slowed down as it tried to load textures for characters appearing on screen.

alleviating this required having the OS/page file on an SSD, as well as the game itself.
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Agree with this, and you should monitor your disk active time and queue length with Resource Monitor (I assume you use Windows 7). MMORPGs in general can be IO bound at times, and it shows up in game because of all the dynamic loading that it does. If disk queue length stays significantly above 1, perhaps a SSD upgrade is in order.

Also, check your internet connection with something like http://pingtest.net/ for any possible latency problems.
 
yeah check your memory usage, could be ram I remember when I played starcraft 2 on 2 gigs of ram it kept paging the rest which was a gig to the hard drive.
it was bad the game would glitch and chug at first then just felt sluggish the rest of the time running at 18-22 fps.

I believe win 32 bit will only see 3gb of total memory including graphics card
 
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ShadowVVL said:
yeah check your memory usage, could be ram I remember when I played starcraft 2 on 2 gigs of ram it kept paging the rest which was a gig to the hard drive.
it was bad the game would glitch and chug at first then just felt sluggish the rest of the time running at 18-22 fps.

I believe win 32 bit will only see 3gb of total memory including graphics card
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4GB not 3.
 
notty22 said:
I would say yes. But its technical , exactly whats going on.
I'm not sure how much total ram he has, but I belive the O/s tries to ghost memory addresses for all the gpu memory it sees, (2gb in this case) making that memory unavailable to the rest of the system.
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This is the way I understand it too. After it takes the RAM for the O/S, it might not leave enough for the game.
 
I didn't realize you were running Win7 32-bit. Another vote for opening up task manager (or better yet, resource manager) and seeing what's going on.
 
I did the same thing going from a 4850 to a 5850 on my old C2D E6300. Didn't see any improvements. Then I got a C2D 8400 and cranked it to 4.5GHz, and that helped a lot. Then I got an i7 and cranked it to 4.2GHz and that helped even more. WoW loves the CPU.
 
Lots of awesome helpful posts, I really appreciate it and if anything its teaching me and others who are reading this. I am working on a reinstall right now, but from the sounds of it, I should have installed 64bit. The only reason i havent used that is early last year I had an issue with 64bit drivers and my sound card. Probably should look into that again. Will update with progress after reinstall.
 
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