WoW and 8800gts

[hypeMarked]

Hi all, I recently got an 8800gts and trying to run WoW at max settings in 1920x1200. In cities, I generally get 50-60 fps, but when in ~20 raid I get ~30-40. The worst part is when I'm in a raid and we're fighting, then it'll be like 15-20 fps. I admit that I did some tweaking with the nVidia panel, but I think I revert everything back to normal.

A side from the info above, I did remember was installing Stream (for Dark Messiah) and probably the wrong thing to do. I remembered during the installation, my anti-virus keep saying that IE.exe is a virus and I should remove it, but I chose to ignore it and continue with the installation. After the installation, IE don't work anymore, so I download ie7 and install it thinking everything is normal. Could this be the source of my problem? or can WoW stress 8800gts that easily? or did I do something wrong?

Thanks

 

[potato28]

V sync on? If it is, turn it off.

 

[hypeMarked]

It's off

 

[potato28]

What was the last video card? ATI- run driver cleaner pro, nVidia- reinstall drivers. If you have AA and AF activated in the control panel, disable them and let WoW do the AA and AF.

 

[Aikouka]

What's your processor and ram?

I can tell ya that I run WoW at 1680x1050 with 16xAA and 16xQAF and if there are a lot of people around, the performance will drop considerably. Although I don't have any issues going as low as you're talking about. When I was on the PTR and there were probably 150 people in the Hall of Arms in Ironforge right where the Battlemasters were... yeah, that kind of brought my GeForce 8800GTX to its knees. I'm just curious if it's not really the video card but the inability of the system to provide the data to the video card. WoW is known to be quite memory intensive (the game lists that it uses a good 500-600-ish MB of ram) and easily maxes out one of my cores at all times.

Also, there is no executable called "IE.exe" that ships with Windows (that I know of), Internet Explorer's executable is called "iexplore.exe"

 

[hypeMarked]

Here's my comp stats:

p4 3.0 HT
2.5 gigs of ram
8800gts

My previous card was an x850xt pe. I ran it with 24 bit 1920x1200 1x aa, but everything else max and got ~40 fps. I'd thought the 8800gts can get me at least ~50 with max settings.

 

[Chadder007]

IE.exe? You have a spyware worm.

 

[hypeMarked]

A worm that gets install when I install Dark Messiah? Because that's when the warning appears. When it happened, I chose to seal it. Do you think it's still affecting the system?

 

[hypeMarked]

Bump for more help...I don't think it's a virus or anything because I just ran virus scanner and spyware scanner and it comes up clean.

 

[shabby]

Originally posted by: hypeMarked
Here's my comp stats:

p4 3.0 HT
2.5 gigs of ram
8800gts

My previous card was an x850xt pe. I ran it with 24 bit 1920x1200 1x aa, but everything else max and got ~40 fps. I'd thought the 8800gts can get me at least ~50 with max settings.

Problem found.

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: shabby

Originally posted by: hypeMarked
Here's my comp stats:

p4 3.0 HT
2.5 gigs of ram
8800gts

My previous card was an x850xt pe. I ran it with 24 bit 1920x1200 1x aa, but everything else max and got ~40 fps. I'd thought the 8800gts can get me at least ~50 with max settings.

Problem found.

aww no need to be hasty to intel. the rig in my sig handles WoW excellently at 1920x1080 with everything cranked and 4xAA, 8xAF (whatever the max filtering is).

 

[shabby]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman

Originally posted by: shabby

Originally posted by: hypeMarked
Here's my comp stats:

p4 3.0 HT
2.5 gigs of ram
8800gts

My previous card was an x850xt pe. I ran it with 24 bit 1920x1200 1x aa, but everything else max and got ~40 fps. I'd thought the 8800gts can get me at least ~50 with max settings.

Problem found.

aww no need to be hasty to intel. the rig in my sig handles WoW excellently at 1920x1080 with everything cranked and 4xAA, 8xAF (whatever the max filtering is).

Im not being hasty, i just upgraded from a 3.0c to a e6400, i cant believe how much that cpu was holding me back. I went from choppy gameplay to piss smooth gameplay.
If he's getting smooth gameplay in the game but poor frames in battles its the cpu.

 

[MoonglumWoW]

I would agree your problem is probably your processor. I run WoW on my computer at 1900x1200 with 2 SLI 7900GTX on a dual Opteron 250 system. In crowded places the CPU monitor on the G15 keyboard shows 100% and things start getting choppy.

My wife runs at 1680x1050 on an e6400 with a 8800GTX and nothing gets choppy. The CPU monitor doesn't max at 100% so far that I've seen. Obviously not extensive testing but it does seem the problem is with the CPU. To be sure, you may want to overclock your GPU at little with nVidia software and see if the choppiness gets better or stops. I suspect it wont.

 

[VooDooAddict]

There was a recent CPU scaling check on the 8800 series. To get the most out of it you really need a C2D or top end AMD. The speculation (from comparing NVIDIA and ATI) is that NVIDIA drivers have a slightly higher CPU overhead. Especially with the 8800 series. Not a problem on C2D or high end AMD though.

 

[Kalessian]

You should be good for a few hundred mhz OC on that CPU if you're willing to try it.

 

[hypeMarked]

Thanks all, I never thought my CPU can be a bottle neck now

 

[Midwayman]

The p4 3g hasnt been a particularly fast cpu for awhile now though.