So I bought a new PC to replace my old gaming laptop.
Specs:
6950XT
RYZEN 5600
16GB DDR4 2666. (Single ram).
My laptop had 2060 mobile and i7 10750, and was getting 40-50 fps in valdrakken and 100+ outdoors on 1080p and medium-high setting.
Now I am struggling to get above 30 fps in valdrakken with drops to screen freeze every 4-5 seconds, on 1440p and high-ultra. In other capitals around 40-50 fps with the same freezes.
In these situations, the GPU load sits at between 5-35% usage. The CPU at about 25-30%.
Outdoors if I uncap frames I sit at 90-95% GPU usage, with 250-300+ fps on ultra, native resolution.
All drivers + adrenaline up to date. Using DX12, and no FSR.
Is this a CPU problem, or what? It’s weird because even if there is some bottleneck, the 5600 desktop should fully smoke the 10th gen mobile intel, which worked better in cities.
First of the 5600 is not that much better in WoW, it’s better yes, but only by like 20%.
Now to your biggest problem;
Please, how on earth did you think that a single stick of RAM is any good for gaming or in general?
This alone will probably cost you around 30% performance in many games especially CPU-limited ones like WoW.
Let me guess it was a cheap prebuild?
Anyways, the first thing you should do is get another matching RAM stick.
Actually, to be honest, you might run into problems if they are not the same model and on top of that, your RAM is rather slow at 2666Mhz.
So i would even suggest to get a new set of 2x 3600Mhz at 16GB each, so 32GB total (which is the norm for gaming PCs these days).
No prebuild, all parts were picked and assembled by me… but I cheaped out on ram…
After checking again, the stock speed is actually 3200 not 2666.
I ordered another identic stick and OCed the first to 3600. Already works better and is super stable from the get go.
With 32gb Dual Channel at 3600 should fix my issue, will install it later today. I might try 3800+ Mhz if its still stable.
Will also OC the CPU for an extra 8-10% single core perf.
The game is very uneven in terms of optimization. In some places it flies at 165 fps without any drops or stutters. And in some places it’s just a nightmare with drops below 60 fps and rises to 160 + constant stutters in certain places of certain locations or at certain camera angles. And all this is especially aggravated in the first days/weeks after the release of each subsequent content patch. And also, from time to time, new drivers for the video card make the game work much worse than the old ones.
My system:
CPU: Intel(R) Core™ i7-14700KF 3.40 GHz
GPU: TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16GB
RAM: G Skill F5-6000J3636F16G x2 (dual mode, 6000 MHz mode)
SSD: Samsung 980 PRO 2TB
And I can’t say that I feel comfortable playing. Especially after yesterday’s patch. Optimization in the game is very unstable.
Just updated my graphics card and I’m having the same issue, ESPECIALLY in Dragonflight zones, they lag like no tomorrow no matter what I do, even outside Valdrakken
In Dornogal my fps is fine outside of the city, inside it’s just awful
In Dragonflight it’s just awful everywhere honestly
On any other game my average fps is in the hundreds, while on WoW the average fps is around 40, it’s absolutely atrocious
So I kind of fixed my issues.
Bought another stick of 16gb ram.
Now I run 32gb at 3600mhz dual channel, and undervolted+OC proc for some single core gains. Also disabled FSR.
I have stable 60-80 fps in the Event zone and Dornogal, 100-120fps in Stormwind/Ogg/Big cities with mid population, and 250-300 fps in Outdoor zones, 450-500 fps in Old World zones.
I set everything to Ultra on 1440p Native.
OFC anything above 100hz doesnt help me, but its nice having some headroom.
I was able to partially solve my performance problem by rolling back the video card drivers to one of the previous versions. For some reason, the last two versions of Nvidea drivers (565.90 and 566.03) create very big problems with microstutters in the game. I rolled back to the driver version that I had installed before the update (560.70) - and the game started working much smoother. Problems sometimes occur, but quite rarely.
