World of Warcraft and a 7900gt

[Gadzookie]

im getting a 7900 gt in the mail today and it going to be for WOW

anyone know what kind of frame rates i will get while playing at 1680xx1050


i have a 3700 san diego and 2 gigs of ram

 

[GodLovesPunk]

You'll be able to play the game with all settings maxed... WoW = not graphics intensive, but rather cartoony and simple. (If you can't tell I don't like WoW =P)

 

[tennisflip]

You're good dude. I'm pretty sure I maxed everything out with my 9800pro when I played the demo.

 

[aggressor]

You'll be fine with everything maxed, including 4x AA and 16x AF.

I *do* suggest turning on High Quality mode (instead of Quality) in the control panel, otherwise you will see a lot of texture shimmering. It's not much of a performance hit (5% maybe), but its well worth it.

 

[adlva]

I have a 7800GT and regularly see 60fps with everything maxed - it might drop to 45fps in busy places (like the major cities) or on a big raid.

Really, a 7800GT or 7900GT is overkill for WoW.. but still nice to have.

edit: And that's running at 1600x1050 with my spiffy new NEC 20WGMX2.

 

[pulsedrive]

Originally posted by: GodLovesPunk
You'll be able to play the game with all settings maxed... WoW = not graphics intensive, but rather cartoony and simple. (If you can't tell I don't like WoW =P)

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it isn't grapically intense. If you crank the settings all the way up and you don't have a decent video card WoW's FPS will hit the tank. So don't go on and on about it, especially if you don't like it, because that means you don't even have that much experience with it.

 

[Bateluer]

I maxed things out in WoW with my 3.4Ghz P4 and AGP 6800GT at 1680x1050

 

[Dman877]

I seem to recall being able to max out WoW on a 9800 Pro/Barton system so you should be fine .

 

[TheRyuu]

7900GT=extream overkill
Even a 7800GT might be overkill.

Well look at it this way, you can run the game 4xAA/16xAF, TRSSAA, Gamma AA, on high quality.

 

[phantom404]

I found with my 7800gtx if i turned on vsync and turned off tripple buff then the shimmering problem would go away. You might have to restart wow the first time but it worked for me.

 

[Madellga]

Originally posted by: Gadzookie
im getting a 7900 gt in the mail today and it going to be for WOW

anyone know what kind of frame rates i will get while playing at 1680xx1050


i have a 3700 san diego and 2 gigs of ram

Very playable with everything maxed. I used to play with a system like your and a 7800GTX.

Force 4X AA in the drivers, 16XAF, High Quality, turn off all optimizations, and set Negative LOD Bias to clamp. Set also Supersampling on Transparency Antialiasing.

This will make your WoW 95% free of shimmering.

 

[adlva]

With my 6600GT and pretty much everything maxed my frame rate would drop to the teens in crowded cities (in WoW). I liked the eye candy so put up with the slow frame rate. Now with a new computer, 1 more GB of RAM and the 7800GT it doesn't drop below 45fps and is usually 60fps.

While WoW may not be the most graphically advanced game out there, there are some definite advantages to running it on a newer computer with a good video card. Heck, I played open beta with a Ti4400 - it wsa fine, but I'd much rather have my new card (which I'm swapping for a 7900GTX with the eVGA step-up program).

 

[GodLovesPunk]

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it isn't grapically intense. If you crank the settings all the way up and you don't have a decent video card WoW's FPS will hit the tank. So don't go on and on about it, especially if you don't like it, because that means you don't even have that much experience with it.

Compared to other MMOs.. WoW is nothing graphics wise. Even EQ1 is more graphics intensive than WoW (EQ1 updated zones look better too in my opinion).. I have played WoW.. I couldn't get past how simple and undiverse the character graphics are.

 

[Gadzookie]

whats shimmering ?

 

[Madellga]

Originally posted by: Gadzookie
whats shimmering ?

Just use Search. There are some threads about it.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: wizboy11
7900GT=extream overkill
Even a 7800GT might be overkill.

Well look at it this way, you can run the game 4xAA/16xAF, TRSSAA, Gamma AA, on high quality.

I suggest you give 8xS SSAA a try. That's what I run with a 7900GTX, I would imagine that a 7900GT could do that as well.

 

[Madellga]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: wizboy11
7900GT=extream overkill
Even a 7800GT might be overkill.

Well look at it this way, you can run the game 4xAA/16xAF, TRSSAA, Gamma AA, on high quality.

I suggest you give 8xS SSAA a try. That's what I run with a 7900GTX, I would imagine that a 7900GT could do that as well.

If not, just scale back to 4xS SSAA . SSAA is more important in his case, IMO.

 

[tuteja1986]

WOW doesn't need 7900GTX :! i hope you enjoy the shimmering :!

 

[daddyo]

I must be doing something wrong. I have an A64 3000+ at 2.5hgz, 2gb RAM, and a 7800GT, and my FPS in WoW at 1600x1050 is usually in the 40-50fps area, and if its a city, we're talking 20-30fps.

This is with 2X AA and AF, and performance mode in the drivers.

What's going on?

 

[Madellga]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986
WOW doesn't need 7900GTX :! i hope you enjoy the shimmering :!

He said he bought a GT, not a GTX.
If he does set the drivers like explained here, shimmering is not noticeable.

Nevertheless, the X1800/1900 does shimmer also - this coming from someone who tried them all.

It is up to him to decide based on other factors, like cooler noise, card price, etc.

 

[Gadzookie]

i stillc ant find out what shimmerring is !!!!! can someone give me a summery please .......

 

[Madellga]

Originally posted by: Gadzookie
i stillc ant find out what shimmerring is !!!!! can someone give me a summery please .......

OK, it is just a few threads below this one, but have a look here. Look for Pete's definition, he made a good one.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1824790&enterthread=y

 

[Chiropteran]

Wow crashes every couple hours with my 7900 GT, even more often in a croweded place like when doing a 40 player raid. Let me know how it runs when you get your 7900 GT, I'm thinking it's a problem with the drivers but if they work fine for you I'll have to look into other things. Went back to my old 6600 GT for now, which works fine, if a bit slow.

 

[Madellga]

Originally posted by: Chiropteran
Wow crashes every couple hours with my 7900 GT, even more often in a croweded place like when doing a 40 player raid. Let me know how it runs when you get your 7900 GT, I'm thinking it's a problem with the drivers but if they work fine for you I'll have to look into other things. Went back to my old 6600 GT for now, which works fine, if a bit slow.

I am not playing WoW anymore, but when I was playing I would eventually get kicked out of the system after 2 or 3 hours. It was mostly server disconnection due to lag.

Do you have simply a disconnection or are you crashing back to desktop (blue screen, critical error, etc)?

 

[Chiropteran]

Originally posted by: Madellga
I am not playing WoW anymore, but when I was playing I would eventually get kicked out of the system after 2 or 3 hours. It was mostly server disconnection due to lag.

Do you have simply a disconnection or are you crashing back to desktop (blue screen, critical error, etc)?

No, nothing like that. I jhave seen the "disconnected from server" that you are talking about, but it's pretty rare for me.

What I am talking about is I'll be playing along just fine, and then suddenly the fps with drop to single digits for a second or two before the game freezes, the last sound loops, and everyth seems mostly locked up... but I can still move the mouse pointer.

After this point, different things happen. Sometimes it gets locked up so hard I can't get out at all, eventually the mouse pointer stops moving also or goes invisible, and I just have to hard reset or turn the power off.

Sometimes I can alt-f4 out of wow or ctrl-alt-del to get to task manager and end process on wow.exe, and get back to a running windows, but I can't just restart wow- it will complain that no 3d hardware was found, so I reboot and then wow starts okay.

The last thing that might happen is wow crashes itself with some error. This is basically the same as me killing wow with alt-f4 or task manager, but it gives a little error message on its own and goes away. I still have to reboot so wow can find my 3d hardware.