WoW, Bad fps issues while gaming

[4lfclover]

Hello, I' am having a issues when I play video games, such as World of Warcraft. My frame rate drops drastically whenever there are multiple characters on the screen. Example: 70-55fps when 1 to 5 characters are on the screen, and 20fps when there are 40 characters on the screen. My settings aren't maxed which I thought I would be able to set them at max without having a drop in fps as people with the same or simillar specs have told me they're having no issues in droped frames. I moved my pagefile to another disk which helped a little, and I also have a gaming hardware profile setup so very few services are running. I've tried using only one video card which didn't make a difference since WoW doesn't support SLi and I dissabled my audio in the bios which made no difference. I have a 4 pin atx power cable, connected to the Ez_Plug and Ai Booster reads PCIE NA v. Are my video cards getting power? If anyone can help please do, cause I have no idea what the problem I' am having is.

My PC Specs
Processor - AMD Athlon 64 3800
Motherboard - A8N32-SLI Deluxe
PSU - OCZ PowerStream 520w
Memory - OCZ Platinum Revision 2 1GB (2 x 512MB) PC 3200
Video Card(s) - 2 x eVGA Geforce 7600GT 256MB PCI Express
Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10

CPU-Z ReportCPU-Z Report
CPU-Z version 1.35. CPU(s)
Number of CPUs1

NameAMD Athlon 64 3800+
Code NameVenice
SpecificationAMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
Family / Model / SteppingF F 2
Extended Family / ModelF 2F
Brand ID4
PackageSocket 939
Core SteppingDH-E6
Technology90 nm
Supported Instructions SetsMMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended
3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
CPU Clock Speed2411.0 MHz
Clock multiplierx 12.0
HTT Bus Frequency200.9 MHz
L1 Data Cache64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line
size
L2 Cache512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed2411.0 MHz (Full)
L2 LocationOn Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logicyes
L2 Bus Width128 bits



Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturerASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard modelA8N32-SLI-Deluxe, Rev 1.xx
BIOS vendorAmerican Megatrends Inc.
BIOS revision1303
BIOS release date07/13/2006
ChipsetnVidia C51XE rev. A2
SouthbridgenVidia nForce4 MCP rev. A4
Sensor chipITE IT8712

Graphic InterfacePCI-Express
PCI-E Link Widthx16
PCI-E Max Link Widthx16



Memory
DRAM TypeDDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size1024 MBytes
DRAM Frequency200.9 MHz
FSBRAMCPU/12
CAS# Latency2.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS#2 clocks
RAS# Precharge2 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS)5 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (TRC)9 clocks
DRAM Idle Timer16 clocks
Command Rate2T
# of memory modules2
Module 0OCZ DDR PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Module 1OCZ DDR PC3200 - 512 MBytes



Software
Windows versionMicrosoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
(Build 2600)
DirectX version9.0c

 

[dfuze]

Is 520W enough for dual cards? Do they have a dedicated plug or are you using an adapter to power them? Make sure you have the most up to date drivers for your video cards. I have a SLi motherboard but only one card at the moment, so I may be wrong, but I didn't think any program has to do anything special to deal with dual cards, that they did the work themselves splitting up the work.

 

[4lfclover]

The Power Supply has 2xPCIE Power Cords, but my video cards do not have PCIE Power Adaptors. Which is why I have a 4 pin atx power cable, connected to the Ez_Plug. Yes, I have the latest Drivers for everything, such as bios, processor, chipset, video and sound.

 

[dfuze]

Maybe Ram is the culprit? Have you run Memtest?
Or could it be your net connection?
With having it slow down with the more people that come on screen makes those two components come to mind.

 

[4lfclover]

Nope, I haven't run Memtest yet. My latency is anywhere from 100ms to 300ms. Which is wierd because when I played WoW on my PowerBook G4 the Latency was always under 100ms and I was using wifi.

Here are my 3DMark Scores

3DMark Score: 10167

CPU Score: 5266

Fill Rate - Single Texturing 5943.0 MTexels/s

Fill Rate - Multi Texturing 13386.6 MTexels/s

Pixel Shader 369.0 fps

Vertex Shader - Simple 108.7 MVertices/s

Vertex Shader - Complex 77.7 MVertices/s

8 Triangles 3.4 MTriangles/s

32 Triangles 13.9 MTriangles/s

128 Triangles 46.6 MTriangles/s

512 Triangles 129.4 MTriangles/s

2048 Triangles 200.3 MTriangles/s

32768 Triangles 241.1 MTriangles/s