World of Warcraft Performance Issues

[Alphonsis]

Howdy ya'll,

just swinging by to see if I can get some tips on system performance. Before I get into the meat of it all, here are the specs of my system.

p4 2.6c
256x4 pc3200
leadtek 6800LE with two pipelines unlocked, one shader unlock, oc'd to 350/875
system disk uwscsi 10k 36gb
app disk 7.2k 8mb cache parallel

It doesn't seem to be related to graphics, since my fps drops to about 2 frames regardless of whether i have all the settings set to high, 4xaa, max res, textures, etc., or with it all off, no aa, min res, textures, etc.

I wonder if I'm hitting a bottleneck elsewhere in the system.

The performance hit tends to come when there is alot of stuff going on in my immediate area. (if you're familiar with the game, mostly during lava spawn fights or core hound fights. all the aoes drop my fps)

any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Schadenfroh]

p4 2.6c

What core is that?

 

[mryellow2]

I'd say get more ram but I'm not sure. I played with a gig in 2x512 and would get fps drops but only in large pvp raids when the textures were first loading.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Nothing is wrong with your specs, you have 2x the PC I have and I play WoW just fine - must be a bad driver or something.

 

[Alphonsis]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

p4 2.6c

What core is that?

couldn't find a name for the core, but think is the link to the chip:

http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/details.asp?sSpec=SL6WH

 

[Alphonsis]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Nothing is wrong with your specs, you have 2x the PC I have and I play WoW just fine - must be a bad driver or something.

I know!! It's driving me up the wall!

My roommate is running a amd64 2800 with a geforce 5950 and 512x2 and it's smooth as butter.

i'm using the nvidia driver's off their website. Should I be using some other drivers?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Alphonsis

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Nothing is wrong with your specs, you have 2x the PC I have and I play WoW just fine - must be a bad driver or something.

I know!! It's driving me up the wall!

My roommate is running a amd64 2800 with a geforce 5950 and 512x2 and it's smooth as butter.

i'm using the nvidia driver's off their website. Should I be using some other drivers?

Might be the mod you did to your video card.

 

[Elcs]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

p4 2.6c

What core is that?

P4 C would lead me to believe it was a Northwood C (800mhz FSB)

How is performance in other games? Do you experience the same in any other?

 

[Alphonsis]

I tested out my mod thoroughly using 3dmark05 and the performance is great. No artifacts and scores in the 6800gt range

i also play bf2 and similar problems occur. If I'm in a vehicle driving fast and i start to use my machine gun, it chops up a bit. same thing if it's a highly contested flag it'll start to chop up when i start firing.

 

[Velk]

Disable sound and see what happens.

 

[gorcorps]

try the video drivers at www.omegadrivers.net

 

[Chompman]

What is your internet connection?

And how much room is left on that 36 gb hard drive?

 

[Alphonsis]

Originally posted by: Chompman
What is your internet connection?

And how much room is left on that 36 gb hard drive?

Cable. Latency is usually pretty good at <100ms

Not much. About.. 800mb

 

[Alphonsis]

Originally posted by: Velk
Disable sound and see what happens.

Same thing.

 

[jbritt1234]

Originally posted by: Alphonsis

Originally posted by: Chompman
What is your internet connection?

And how much room is left on that 36 gb hard drive?

Cable. Latency is usually pretty good at <100ms

Not much. About.. 800mb

800 MB of free space could be your problem there. I'm not sure what the exact equation is, but in general I see 2000 and XP crapping out when you have less than a few gigs of free space. Is your swap file set so that Windows Manages it?

 

[Alphonsis]

Originally posted by: jbritt1234800 MB of free space could be your problem there. I'm not sure what the exact equation is, but in general I see 2000 and XP crapping out when you have less than a few gigs of free space. Is your swap file set so that Windows Manages it?

No, I set it myself. 1 GB on the OS disk (fast scsi) and 2GB on the storage disk (fast ide)

 

[exilera]

Try removing the overclocking on your vid card. Set your BIOS settings to default. Sounds like a stretch but I bet it'll have an effect.

 

[Alphonsis]

Originally posted by: exilera
Try removing the overclocking on your vid card. Set your BIOS settings to default. Sounds like a stretch but I bet it'll have an effect.

Alrighty, I'll try it when I get home from work today.

 

[Alphonsis]

Originally posted by: Alphonsis

Originally posted by: exilera
Try removing the overclocking on your vid card. Set your BIOS settings to default. Sounds like a stretch but I bet it'll have an effect.

Alrighty, I'll try it when I get home from work today.

disabled the overclocking, disabled the pipes and shaders i unlocked and its' still the same.

I also defragmented my pagefile, cleaned out all my previous video card drivers.

I'm running out of things to test...

 

[ockky]

have you tried updating the motherboard (agp) drivers?

 

[Alphonsis]

Originally posted by: ockky
have you tried updating the motherboard (agp) drivers?

Ah, ok. I'll try that tonight, and I guess I'll flash my mobo bios while I'm at it.

 

[thujone]

using any interface addons?

this can kill performance sometimes.

also... might want to try reinstalling wow and see if that does anything for you.