Kind request to help me out:
Some time ago (don’t want to blame the latest patch, but seems like everything started with it) i noticed huge fpd drop in raids.
My sad specs below
CPU: i5-2310
GPU: GTX950 2gb
RAM: 8gb
Display: 1280 x 1024
No addons.
Latest gpu drivers (tried with older ones too)
I always play on all min settings. Tried to lower to min: render scale, camera fov, tried with 720x576 resolution. Nothing helps.
I assume the burden may fall on my CPU? But still, it hasn’t been that bad 1-2months ago.
And now I get 5-10 fps in 20man raids, so basically raids are off the menu for me )
Could someone suggest please, is it that my specs can’t hold it anymore? Is it the patch?
Dragonflight has performance issues. The FPS drop is probably caused by the CPU although it’s likely a bit more complex if it’s a patch bug/regression.
You would have to have much stronger hardware to get over the problem with brute force but as you can see in this forum - some have problems even with overkill hardware.
Sorry to break it to you, but there is no way your gonna raid with this 10 year old CPU.
Even on much faster CPUs like a 3000 series Ryzen you will still barely hold 30 FPS in a big raid like 30man heroic or 20 mythic.
Even 5man can be critical with big pulls and lots of addons.
For decent FPS you will need at least a 5000 series AMD Ryzen (X3D is amazing in WoW with it’s extra cache) or a recent Intel like a 12gen or better.
The last time i had playable FPS with my I5-4570K back then was in MoP Your 2nd gen is even slower.
Then i upgraded to a Ryzen 3900X (bad choice for WoW but a beast for rendering) and FPS were ok till SL.
For DF release i got the 5800X3D because it its on the same AM4 socket and is about twice as fast as the 3900X. It can even keep up with a 13600K Intel with DDR 5 RAM in WoW.
Tldr; you really need a new CPU (+ mobo and ram)
Have you even read what CPU he has? You must be kidding
Yes, ancient quad-core, but that doesn’t explain the sudden FPS drop after a patch. And current state of WoW performance is not something to be accepted.
honestly you should be getting playable fps with your specs(Why? I could run and play the game on my pc at home with a gts 250 & a fx4300) , the issue is likely in the game and some specific updates. Check if any settings need changing and also check if the fps limit isn’t bugged out.(it happened to me once this expansion)
Anyway, if it ever becomes possible please update your pc as this might not be even remotely good enough with the rapidly increasing requirements.
Wow allows you to decrease rendering so much that you could run it with 800x600 resolution on a 50 % rendering scale. So probably even older GPUs would run it.
I used to play Wow on a laptop with integrated graphics this way .
While the GTX 950 is below the minimum requirements, your CPU itself is the most likely culprit here. Best we can suggest is to not play raids or group content with this system. Maybe a player has a suggestion for you what else you can try aside from bringing it up to minimum requirements.
It’s above in performance than Iris Xe graphics and the page even lists GTX 900-series as minimal The only thing there could be VRAM but that can be handled by lower settings.
i7-2670QM has max load of 20-30% anywhere in game and its 2 years older than i5-2310. Can’t expect stellar performance but issue is in stability of the game and unlikely in cpu. Maybe he has HDD that can’t catch up with loading assets or insufficient ram due to high consumption. OP should try changing Directx settings. But yea welcome to the refrigerator wow runners gang.
Due to my endgame PC being in process of being fixed, I’m currently playing on my 9 year old i7 with a GTX 1050 and low-mid settings and I get around 100FPS on the Dragon Isles (except Valdrakken where it drops to 40).
So yes it playable, but you might want to put graphics to minimum if you intend to raid with more than 30FPS.
Total CPU usage doesn’t mean a thing for WoW. WoW is heavily single thread bound so single thread performance is the biggest factor and that CPU, especially as a mobile CPU has very poor performance compared to more modern ones.
You may find we have further detailed our supported video cards in a support article, with the 960 3GB as the minimum for 900 series and the 1050 3GB as the minimum for 10 series, due to there being other cards in the series that do not meet our developers minimum specs.
As with our specs in general, playing the game may work on hardware not meeting it, it just can’t be guaranteed or be supported by us.
My original statement still stands though with the CPU being the most likely cause here and not the GPU. I just want to inform players if something is not meeting the minimum, more as an FYI, and not a we won’t help you and you have to upgrade.
had a wide spread of laptops to run the game on and it is optimized to use 4 cores since wod or legion. not a single core is ever overloaded from my tests running retail on 10 y.o cpu. it all averages out to 20-30%.
you would think if it was struggling it would at least have 90% load on single core but nah.
Lurk around on the tec support forum. people get dragonflight performance issues from running latest gen intel cpus and rtx 3060.
Your 2nd gen is even slower.
The only thing there could be VRAM but that can be handled by lower settings.