Because they’re dumb. WoW is made to run on toasters pretty much but as a result you also pretty much gain nothing from high-end setups. If you only play WoW, it’s throwing the money into the ocean if you spend a lot of money on a computer that’s overkill for WoW.
Like, when my computer crashed and burned I was kind of skeptical if I’d even be able to play until I got it fixed but my laptop, that’s quite bad at this point, could actually run WoW. It might not look as nice as it does on this computer but it could run the game at a playable fps on low settings. If I’d try to launch any other games I play it would probably have exploded.
Wow is old and built to run on potatoes, its obvious its not their highest prio to eek performance out of top end rigs. Mostly people notice these fps drops because they are displaying their fps (lol) not because the quality drops so badly as to be noticeable.
You’re like the audiophile types that insist on listening on vinyl on a 10 grand stereo system because CD’s have filtered out wavelengths that are only audible to dogs, convinced that everyone else is missing the point and you’re the only one getting it.
Intel i7 12700H+ rtx 4060 mobile here, i have heavy fps drops too for some reason, not even playing game at maxx settings its riddiculous. Happens on first boss of halls of infusion and in valdraken. Its just bad optimization. I think Wow just cant utilize the hardware in a propper way.
Is this with maxed out sliders for view distance and environmental detail or dropped down? I’ll report the the SMT issue to Blizzard who will proceed to do nothing probably.
And what makes me laugh af are tech-illiterate gamers with no standards for performance or quality, which allow these type of issues to persist because they are clueless about what’s happening.
Absolutely not, anyone who knows what they’re talking about and is remotely sensitive to performance issues can tell every time performance dips and the game stutters without any overlays.
And they’re probably right. I don’t care about audio at all unless it’s awful, but I’m not going around commenting on posts with people complaining about low-quality audio because it’s not something I’m knowledgable about.
Hardly tech illiterate, just of the opinion that it doesn’t impact my enjoyment of this game and I don’t share the “HOW IS THIS ACCEPTABLE!”? pov at all.
Also, knowing how graphics cards are numbered and the basics of how they work doesn’t make you ‘tech literate’, it means you’re a hobbyist that cares about graphics.
Keep banging on about it though, I’m sure its a nice change from train spotting or something.
Again, go bleat about it in a game where performance and visual perfection matter and are sought after. I’m not playing this 2 decade old game for those reasons, so when the OP screams its not acceptable, it certainly is for me.
Then you aren’t sensitive to objectively trash performance which you confirmed with your previous statement that people can only notice drops and stutters when looking at overlays.
More power to you if it doesn’t affect your enjoyment, but you’re the one who came in here with a belittling and dismissive attitude.
It’s like if I came in on an endgame post with a “LMAO you suckers actually care about clearing content”.
It’s objectively bad like the performance of any notoriously CPU-bound game is objectively bad, Jedi Survivor and TLOU PC ports as the recent examples.
It doesn’t magically run well for people with integrated GPU laptops and 2015 mobile CPUs, coming here claiming it “runs fine” for them.
Abberus is pretty hard on the AOE and spell effects but I’m still getting higher fps with a raid full of people all casting at the same time compared to simply standing still in Valdrakken.
The solution for this is something people won’t like, which is to not have everything in one convenient small space.
It would have to be AH in one edge of the city, 4 different inn’s on each edge of the city, crafting stations in another edge, weeklies on another edge, great vault on yet another and no questlines that intercept any of these spots. AKA to spread everyone out, because the issue is our pc’s got too much people to load up.
Of course, if it wasn’t an old game and used all the processor cores properly, it could help, but alas.
So many people here having “no issue, my game is running fine” no it’s not. Stop lying. Bet you don’t have any issues playing redfall, Gollum or any other “fine” game.
Wow is almost 20 years old, patched and patched and patched. The better system usually means worse performance when you look at wow history. You simply don’t see difference between 40,50,60 or 175 fps. 7800x3D 4090 6000mhz doesn’t even give great performance in wow.
A system for 1000$ vs 4000$ won’t give you 300% better fps. That’s the issue. The games doesn’t utilise the cpu 100%, nor the gpu. The game is what it is, and people accept it. You guys think your game is running “fine” but it’s not running optimal or even close to what it should.
