When i do tormentors of torgahst on Wednesdays and there’s like 2 raids of 40 there, i get lik 30 FPS…
do the higher end CPU’s have the same issue? mine is pretty high end but still
Yes. There probably isn’t CPU on the market that is able to handle wow.
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If you have graphics on max or high for sure any CPU/GPU will struggle when there’s a lot of things happening on screen.
With a 5800x and a 3080 on high I usually stay around 70-80 fps during raid fights.
Imagine having a high-end PC ;-;
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There is plenty, however the game is poorly optimized to make use of multi-threading and utilize multiple cores.
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Exactly. Because of the optimization the CPUs can’t use their full capability. They’re gotten it better though. For a long time wow was able to use only a single core.
Yea exactly - so if your sole focus is WoW (or other low-threading games) then you are much better off buying a CPU with few but stronger single cores. Like the i5 or ryzen 5 (3600x or 5600x)
On my low end PC (i5, GTX 1050Ti), WoW runs mostly fine. I’ve noticed many of the frame drops are more tied to weakauras than WoW itself. Yes, frames drop when there’s 50 people around, but they drop from 60 (which the game is locked at) to around 40. It’s not unplayable. But I simply had to turn down the amount of addons I generally use, due to random drops in performance. I play on max graphics by the way and I never lower it.
Another contributor to frame drops is the resolution. Higher resolution will result in exponential loss of performance. This is why, no matter what everyone tries to say, 4k gaming won’t become a thing this generation. DLSS will be a thing, but that’s not 4k. I play at 1080P on a 23" monitor. I used to have a bigger monitor, but I downscaled because it was too bug and I couldn’t keep the entire picture in focus, which kinda makes gaming worse.
That’s not very accurate to say. You are totally correct that larger monitors (like 34” widescreens or higher) is very taxing on your GPU but you can easily do 4k on smaller monitors (as you implied) - ultimately it’s very hard to spot the difference between QHD and UHD and that extra resolution is generally not great value by the €.
Currently if you have the most expensive consumer PC money can buy, you cannot run Cyberpunk (even after the optimizations) in native 4k on high graphics at 60fps. You kinda can at 30. 4k is insanely taxing. With the new generation of consoles, games will again become more taxing, so if a GTX3090 can’t run Cyberpunk in 4k, you can bet it won’t run anything from the next generation in native 4k.
1080p upscaled to 4k is what we’ll have to settle with for now. Maybe 4k will be viable in 5-6 years.
You’re extrapolating from a single game and generalizing on the background of a studio that admitted to rushing a buggy unoptimized game. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a better game to reference 4k gaming, and that runs perfectly fine on my 34” screen in 4k using a 2080 GPU.
Is it Ctrl+R to see fps?
You mean a last gen game that was made to run smoothly on a machine that has 5GB shared ram? I use Cyberpunk because it is current, on PC at least. AC: Valhalla also can’t run in 4K on any modern machine. In order to get Spider-Man to run in 4k on the PS5, they had to downgrade the graphics compared to the PS4 version, with shadows especially being worse. Maybe in 5 years, there will be a PC that can run current games in 4k. But it probably won’t be able to run contemporary games in native 4k.
Most i can afford is a mid range PC the curse of living in a third world country 
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Never noticed low FPS tbh, I’ll have to check. Korthia has some weird spots where my FPS spikes all over the place, might of been fixed not noticed it for a while. Can’t remember ever seeing my fps under 100 at 1440p slider 8. Never really checked though, only usually check if it feels sluggish and looks like under 60 FPS. I’ll check when I do it later and world boss, I know it lags like crazy but that’s 100% blizz side.
Yes. I have a Ryzen 7 3700X and used to run it with a Radeon RX 5700XT GPU, and in those situations I wouldn’t even get close to 30 FPS. On Guardian of the First Ones in SoD, I would barely get above 15 FPS on that fight, with all setting on low/off. Several other fights had borderline uplayable FPS for me too.
I recently upgraded to a 3070Ti, not because of WoW because this game doesn’t utilize even half of the GPU, but because I wanted to get rid of AMD, and the first week with it, the FPS drops were still there, but in the past two weeks it’s not been as bad. I don’t know what happened, but it seems sort of fixed, but still not acceptable to get this low FPS on a very decent setup in a 17 year old game.
During Tormenters of Torghast, it was normal for me to get sub 10 FPS, but I haven’t done that since I upgraded.
Do you have Raytracing on? Are particle effects set to the highest?
I run a 5800x with a 3080, and 32 gb cl 14 ram at 1440p widescreen and everything maxed out with Raytracing at the highest.
No issues here, the frame rates stay above 70.
Drivers can also cause a lot of trouble. Clean installing them can work wonders.
Only lag on wow I get is from the game suffering to take in as many inputs as it has too at times, my game stutters and almost freezes up. But its the only game which does it.
Pretty sure I was able to run Cyberpunk at 4k 60ish FPS with 3080 albeit I only tried the game like half a year after release so plenty of bug fixes and not at MAX everything since some settings make unnoticeable difference and RTX Off of course because hardly any game can do that without DLSS
Honestly I’ve hard time remembering any game where I’ve had troubles playing on 4k 60fps and had to significantly lower the graphics.
Also games on consoles have never ran at same quality as PC so the new gen will just let games run to closer or same quality to what we see on PC’s, at least for a while.
Think people might need to clean their computers or refresh drivers or something lol
I run an old i5-3470 and a gtx 960 and even in the thick of the tormentors event I don’t go below 50 or so, and I sure as hell don’t go to sub 10 in raids 
Something badly wrong there folks.