I installed the pre-release content for 10.0.7 and updated my drivers before getting on retail and for some reason the game is supper choppy but not drop in fps.
Though when I get on Classic Wotlk WoW it’s completely fine, same with any other game.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Define “high end PC”.
Game is still choppy even on high end pcs.
Recently got a new one, sporting a 7900x and a 4090 and my performance in wow is basically untouched. My old setup was a 9900k and a 2080 super.
Only difference I notice is that the 4090 is chilling at 36-40c instead of 65-70c but there’s really no noticeable difference in fluidity nor fps numbers.
Have never had the fluid gameplay in wow as I do in other games.
odd my high end pc is fine 
no choppiness to speak of
I’d assume 3090Ti would count as high end
I’ve noticed the mac version isn’t choppy. The game runs almost as well in a Mac Mini M2 as it does on RTX 3080. It’s crazy.
Given the core engine age, we could be getting to the stage where some high(er) end PC’s could be getting TOO powerful to run WoW… or hit instances of major diminishing returns, at least.
First thing to check is what background tasks are running, before you launch WoW.
Next, try running the game w/o any add-ons, to see if there’s any conflicts there.
Then; what type of content are you playing where the performance hits are worst?
My recomendation would be to temper upgrading for the sake of it to get WoW to run better; the hardware you need to run newer games far exceeds anything that WoW needs to run at its’ best.
Realistically… overkill.
Your hardware needs to be as balanced as you can justify; with that card, are you using 32GB RAM & a similar ‘level’ of CPU? Be mindful that WoW is “still” a CPU heavy game & your graphics card only needs to be able to output the frames your CPU generates.
Final edit:
Try to run off a wired connection to get the best connectivity stability.
Not for long, it will be mid-range when next gen comes. Thus it is better to let us know what you got rather than just saying it is ‘high end’. For all we know, your PC could have been ‘high end’ in 2015.
Prime example, right there… upgrade (WoW hardware) because you have to (for other reasons); if the game’s still running fine with older hardware, no need to change it.
Another thought; have you considered moving you game installation off to a separate (solid-state) drive…? Not as strange a prospect, these days, with more compact drive form factors.
Yeah, idk what’s up with wow. Seems to run atrociously bad compared to other games on basically any pc I’m playing on.
My laptop that I was using because my old computer broke couldn’t even run wow properly because I got second long freezes but it ran diablo 3 just fine, without any freezes, at 60 fps, sometimes it dipped to 40ish. In WoW I got single digit fps frequently, even with all settings at the lowest or disabled, with render resolution set to 33%. The second long freezes basically made it unplayable.
Something is seriously wack with wows engine or I’m really unlucky that all of my computers performance over the years is bad in wow.
This new computer runs cyberpunk on max settings with raytracing on better than it runs wow on preset graphic quality 7.
D3 is played, exclusively, on locally stored data, where WoW uses some of it’s data on remote storage; an internet connection for D3 is only used for login security & social interaction.
A ‘make-do’ solution rather than a mend, unfortunately. The hardware levels may be higher, but mobile components are not “apples to apples” comparable.
First thing you’ll want to do is open windows resource manager, then reproduce the choppyness and see what’s maxed out, your CPU, GPU, disk etc.
Most likely it will be CPU, in which case it’s probably addon related which could also mean a bad weakauras. A single buggy one can completely demolish your FPS.
I use a very good computer, and I also lag all the time FPS wise, if I fly too fast.
You’re absolutely right, but many people run with total overkill PCs.
It is actually something about the 10th time on the forum that I hear someone who has problems with wow with a 4090 card.
There must be something with that card and then wow?
I’m not sure, but something I’ve noticed is that everyone having problems use an NVIDIA card.
And that’s rather interesting.
There is no way my Mac Mini should even stand a chance against my desktop. It’s like 1/15th as fast. But it does. There’s something very wrong.
Anybody with AMD GPU’s having trouble?
it must be something on their end my 4090 has zero issues the game is smooth as butter
Only other time I’ve tried any other GPU than nvidia I went with a radeon hd 5000-series card in cataclysm/early mop. First card I got was causing mad amount of artifacts in specific places in games, like in WC3 it was causing artifacts on the fog of war. In Aion it was causing artifacts on shadows. It straight up refused to run WoW if I didn’t play with opengl, no artifacts but it just wouldn’t run it if I didn’t use openGL.
Got it RMA’d and the second card had the same problem and then I got a third one and then I just gave up on anything but nvidia when that card also had artifacts and wouldn’t run WoW without openGL, lol.
That’s great and all that but the AMD of then isn’t the AMD of now.
The AMD of now powers the Xbox, PS4, PS5, Steam Deck, and it just had huge drivers optimisations. I’m an RTX 3080 user, but with these prices on the 4000 series and my experience as a Linux user, you better believe I’m swapping for next time unless something radically changes on team green.