Important FPS drop since patch today [PC]

Ahh, okay i am not alone then.

This month been rely weird, like DELAYED LAG?
But my connection works just fine, i am thinking either the patch or server issue.

Previous months no issues.

I even chanced my ssd and made new windows install, and my computer is under year old with custom cooling solutions, so its not heating issue, i know how to build proper gaming computer.

Intel i5 9400F
32GB ram
1650 GTX
500GB ssd, i only have windows and wow on this drive now,
so it has plenty space, i was gonna do clean format\install anyways, now is done and getting same issues.

I do use addons, but they are there for a reason, cause Blizz default suuuuuuuux^^

WoW is CPU based game, not GPU… lol

You can play the game with like gtx 700, if you have proper CPU and RAM.

Not on higher resolutions and/or higher quality settings. Some current zones like Ardenweald are quite GPU demanding, especially with increased resolution.

each windows / gpu driver update does that.
you gotta change the power managment settings on both each time you update.

if you reduce graphics to low settings, yes…
try runing wow retail @3440x1440 on a low gpu and you’ll see it doen’t work like this.
Retail is not the same as wow vanilla. what you said was true a long time ago, and when we used to run wow at 1080p

Make sure the game is respecting the power profile in the nvidia control panel too.You can easily tell with a programm that shows your gpu clock.

I noticed the game sometime launches into a power saving state even if you set it to maximum performance in the Nvidia control panel

I posted the issue on guru3d forums and some ppl noticed the same thing

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After setting nvidia power managment to “prefere maximum performance”,
go to the gpu software MSI AfterBurner or Asus GPUTweakII, and set the profile to OC mode if you don’t want to make your own profile, (never use 3D OC or AI OC).
After that, go to advanced and set Power Target to max, mine is 116%
and GPU voltage to max, 100%.
Your gpu should not downclock anymore.
If you’re OCing your CPU and have a decent cooler you can do the same.
My 9700k never goes below 5.1Ghz on all cores, with IDLE temps ~30cº and max spike! temps 70Cº.
If your GPU has a physical switch most RTX3080s have, switch it to performance, it only changes the fan speed curve!
You can not have 2 different GPU control programs running at the same time,
if you’re using Asus AI Suite 3 it has gpu managment, so also using Afterburner/Gpu tweak wont work properly.

Bit overkill for wow.

All you need is to enable the high performance power mode for w10 and maximum performance in the nvidia CP.That’s it.

Sadly,like I said the game sometimes doesn’t respect the Nvidia setting for some reason.Only game that does it bdw.

(Just incase you where talking to me) Also I don’t use msi afterburner for nothing else besides keeping check on frametime/clock.I only run it when I feel something is “off”.I also don’t feel its worth to Oc’ 3080.

Even after doing every change you mentioned, regarding the Nvidia settings, I have huge frame drops when I face anima conduits of any kind…

Yesterday everything was working fine, but today after patch i get 59fps top and it’s really game lagging. If i keep the game alt tab but still see the screen everything is smooth and higher fps, i had to do this on the world boss because it was so bad. i have no clue whats going on. i had 90+fps normal but now its locked on 59.

those settings were not to fix that, you have the same problem we all have, probably spires is impossible to play other than gta2 style…

Check if VSync isn’t turned on in game settings (same for frame limiters or increased settings)

But you ignored us so much time. And you want us to believe you?

Fix the bastion arena blizzard holy moly before the patch i had like 100 fps on that map and now 48-60 how is that even possible literally unplayable.
Ohhh and srsly why is it that bloody bright you need sunglasses for that arena.

Blizzard, please fix whatever is causing this… do not ignore this thread. This problem should be your main priority…

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Yeah it’s been unplayable inside dungeons this week. I tried everything but nothing works. Gonna have to unsub if it’s not fixed after reset. :smiley:

Very much unplayable for 3 weeks now… and nothing changed

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Since 9.0.5 Spires of Ascension has become literally unplayable for me. It wasn’t good before but I got a relatively stable 60-90 FPS. Currently I can’t really get above 30 FPS and that’s me not moving my character or the camera. When I move the camera, it’s so laggy it feels like a slide show (yes, really!).

This only happens inside the dungeon. The moment I go out everything is back to normal.

I tried toggling every graphics option there is, to no avail.

CPU: Ryzen 5 3700X
GPU: Radeon RX580
RAM: 16 GB
OS: Windows 10 + latest drivers

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Here almost month after patch, still having flickers, fps drop, game is just not playable since 9.0.5. I have update all drivers, with or without addons. Scan and Repair did not solve this. Tuning graphics, checked all settings in game from 1 to 10. Do we really need month to fix something its not low end pc problems.

Asking my self why in the hell i still pay for game that’s most of the time broken, not finished, they just show how much they respect us and how much we mean to them, ignoring something they made bad, or have no idea how to fix.

CPU - i5 6500
GPU - Radeon Rx570
RAM: 8 GB
OS> Windows 10 + everything up to date, last version of bios.

All other games i play (Witcher 3, Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War) have no issues, they work as good as they did with every update for AMD Drivers,

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So many people encounter this issue, I’m still wondering how isn’t it fixed yet. It’s not like it’s very hard to encounter.

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