Hello! I’ve been having a bit of an issue for a while where on max graphical settings (no ray tracing) I barely cross 60FPS regardless of where I am, usually hovering between 55-65 depending on where I look. I don’t have a target FPS set, VSync is enabled for my 120hz screen but I have tried disabling it with no effect, playing at 1080p. What’s interesting though is that it holds this FPS regardless of whether I’m looking at the sky/ground or flying around in the middle of Stormwind/Orgrimmar/Valdrakken, with the sole exception being The Nokhud Offensive dungeon where my FPS drops to 35-40 throughout the dungeon.
Utilization is sitting at 35-40% on all cores on CPU and 30-50% on GPU, temps are fine with both the CPU and GPU sitting at 45-55°C, power supply is having no issues since neither the GPU nor CPU are drawing anywhere near their maximum and I’m at a loss. Lowering the settings does improve the FPS somewhat, the biggest offender I found being View distance, dropped it from 10 to 7, and I am getting closer to 100FPS now, but I still have no clue why this is happening and still seems a little low considering utilization on CPU and GPU.
Specs are i7-8700k stock clock; RTX 2080 stock clock; 32GB DDR4 2400MHz; game is on an NVMe SSD; tried no addons, makes no difference, normally using ElvUI, AutoKeystone, Details and Simcraft.
The problem is your rather slow CPU compared to current 12/13K Intels or 5000/7000 Ryzen.
You are heavily CPU-limited even though most of your cpu-threads are not even being utilized by WoW (engine limit).
So basically one main thread has to do all the work and your 8700K just doesn’t cut it for higher settings anymore or events with lots of players (even some 5man dungeons).
Also your RAM is really slow which also has an impact when CPU-limited.
All you can do to improve FPS is to lower the settings which are calculated on the CPU (draw distance and level of detail mostly), or get a new Mainboard + CPU and RAM.
PS: lowering those settings won’t help much in a raid or when there are like 100 people around
Also having problematic issues with my 8700k ( + RTX3090 ). On Council I’m getting 20fps, and sometimes less…
Tried everything, reinstalling Windows11, Windows10, play with 0 addons, etc…
While some people I know are playing with older CPU ( like 7700k ) and they have 2x or 3x my fps.
Looks like there’s a compatibility issue with 8700k . I don’t see any other reason.
Yeah that’s why I was wondering too, the 8700k is still a pretty strong chip and I’ve seen people with a 6th gen i5 get consistent 100FPS at max settings, I might try overclocking to see if I can squeeze a bit more performance.
Depends on what difficulty we are talking about and how many people are in the raid.
20+ and they won’t have 60 FPS on that boss with a 8700K…
The most taxing bosses so far are the last two.
Had drops to 45 for a few seconds there with my 5800X3D which is more or less the fastest CPU for WoW until the 7000 X3D come out in Feb.
Texture quality is actually the last setting you should drop… it does nothing on any GPU with 4GB of VRAM or more.
Unless your playing with an integrated GPU, then maybe 1-3 FPS
So for your RTX 2080, just leave it at 7 or tweak it to your liking.
For CPU, the only settings that matter are “view distance” and “environment detail”.
Lowering these will increase your FPS if CPU limited in Outdoor areas and open dungeons like nokhud or academy e.g., it will do nothing for you in enclosed raids.
Weakauras can be very hard on the CPU and also addons in general like nameplate addons that add stuff. Elvui can cause FPS problems too if not properly configured.
Nice, thanks. I don’t have WAs, of ElvUI everything but nameplates and unit frames is disabled and I only run details and simc apart from that so I don’t think add-ons are an issue.
Are u playing with 2 or more monitors? If u are with two monitors make sure that both are on display ports, or both are on HDMI ports… when i was mixing those - i had low GPU utilization from time to time with my nvidia card. When i changed both monitors to be plugged in Display Ports - this issue has gone.
