You know this sounds almost like it could be the case… i wouldn’t doubt it 
Weird. I have 3070ti and 12600k and the dungeon runs over 100fps most the time. Sure big pull drops it a bit but not below 60.
Nymue was the worst thing ever though. Whenever the green leaf ground effect showed up, my GPU would turn into an oven.
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Most people have something like a 3000 series Ryzen which has very bad IPC so 30-40ish FPS is the norm for them in demanding scenarios.
Had a 3900X before my 5800X3D and it could only prepare half the FPS for the GPU.
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Blizzard things.
Yeah, I currently am running a 3070Ti too but coupled with a i7 8700k. I just upgraded the GPU recently from a 1080 and I’ll grab a new rig in winter after the new cpus release.
Anyways, WoW is really CPU bottle-necked and I certainly dip to about 40 fps in Meadery.
That’s normal for that old I7.
Get a 7800X3D or a 9800X3D if it’s priced well enough.
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I know, that’s why I’ll get a new CPU once they launch. Basically an entirely new PC except for the graphics card.
I just wished they’d release a bit sooner because the current performance of my PC in WoW is really bothering me. 
We shouldn’t be having any frame issues anywhere in game especially when we’re on 4070Ti’s or higher should be 60fps minimum everywhere on high settings constantly without drops. If call of duty can do it then why can’t Blizzard
WoW is CPU bottlenecked and most of the client runs on a single core. GPU isn’t an issue because worst case scenario you can lower one of the 50 settings to reduce the load. With the CPU there isn’t much you can do.
Obviously aside from the occasional “bug” that overloads the GPU ofc.
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anywhere they use that fog+dust effect will brick your FPS. another place they use it is for the smoke emitted from the top of the mole people houses. they added another one into this expansion, so you can go to here in Azj Kahet:
stand on the inn (biggest building) and put your camera into the smoke and say goodbye to your FPS. its the exact same effect as Nymue (and its used in a few other places as well) just coloured grey
The fog and volumetrics are adjusted via “compute effects”.
CoD is very low on the CPU demand.
WoW is the opposite, kinda like the new Warhammer 40 Space Marines 2 but without the multithreading.
Your GPU does not matter if you are CPU-limited, which ist most of the time in WoW.
Imho get the 7800X3D now with 6000Mhz RAM and a good cooler, then upgrade at the very end of AM5s lifespan which will be in 2027 according to AMD (so maybe Ryzen 12000 or so).
The jump from 7000 to 9000 is small and probably not worth the extra cost and maybe even stability issues.
here it is while ‘disabled’
Try particles.
If that doesn’t help then it’s probably bugged and the game is rendering too many instances of the effects, same happened in Thorgast (fog) and the Ardenweald hub in the center .
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I had this issue in that dungeon last night after never experiencing it before. It seems to be intermittent because I went in again and it ran fine.
I would get choppy fps and it just generally felt awful to play, when boss encounters started it would decide to go back to its regular fps and then drop once again after the encounter was finished.
Fortunately this is the first time it happened to me and I’ve been there a several times since the expansion released.
it was particles. going from ‘fair’ to ‘good’ was a 28% fps loss when looking at that effect. pretty wild.
I had a similar issue in a very specific spot, during the Dalaran segment of TWW’s introductory quests. Strangely only right around the same time that you have to walk to Khadgar to hand in the final quest.
I took three characters through it and it was always that specific spot each time. Everything before and after was perfectly fine, though.
Yeah there was this spot where it tanked my FPS to like 40ish when looking in a certain direction behind the NPC.
So what’s gonna be the best processor for WoW? Some Amd thing?
I just went to that spot and looked at GPU-Z while zooming in on the smoke effect.
My 4090 went up to 270W when directly looking at it in ego perspective
Without the smoke on screen it’s under 100W.
Also funnily enough, even though my GPU is at 60%ish load when at 270W, my FPS drop to 128 from 138 cap.
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my pc fans make big noise when i go there, very scary i feel like dorothy at the start of the wizard of oz
Came back to confirm the sound issue.
When I get into Meadery I go down to about 50 fps just bey standing there. Disabling the sound rocks my fps up to 95. It’s crazy.
Did some further searching and it turns out that I do not have to disable the entire sound. Disabling “Sound Effects” is enough. Interestingly though, enabling Sound Effects and disabling the sub options of it individually doesn’t do anything.
Edit: Disabling Sound Effects in the open world however has NO effect on my fps at all.
Something in Meadery is completely busted.
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