Hi, I just recently returned to wow and im wondering about my fps.
Its around 30-40 fps in all dragonflight zones especially in the city but in other zones I get good fps like 100+ in stormwind etc. I guess its my pc but can you please help me because I dont know which part of my pc I should upgrade to get a better performance if its a pc issue. Thank you
Im playing on low/good settings and tried everything but its still the same.
That is probably part of the problem.
You really should have 16GB these days.
But i suspect it might be even worse, you could have only one RAM stick running instead of two (in dual channel, double bandwidth).
So i would strongly recommend that you download the tool CPU-Z and check how many RAM sticks you have and if they are really running at 3200Mhz.
Anyways if you can get 2x8GB sticks suited for your motherboard then an upgrade would make alot of sense.
The low FPS in Valdrakken and group content seem in line with your CPU (the bottleneck in WoW).
Sadly there is nothing else you can upgrade besides RAM and Diskspace in a Notebook.
Still you should make sure that your CPU is not overheating and thus throttling.
Check with HWInfo if it’s boosting to max and what the temps are.
On a sidenote, the CPU relevant settings in WoW are:
-view distance
-environmental detail
-RT shadows (turn them off)
also make sure WoW is running in DX12 and your render scale is set to 100% (it’s buggy since the last patch).
I checked CPU-Z it looks like I have 1 stick running at it says:
Channel: Single
Type: DDR 4 8GB
DRAM Frequency: 1596mhz
Uncore Frquency: around 3200mhz
Does this mean I should get another 8GB ram stick and it will boost the performance little bit? Sorry I dont really know much about pcs. Or what do you recommend me doing in this case?
I checked with HWinfo and it doesnt seem to be throttling or overheating at all.
Since it is laptop there is no other upgrade which could increase territory. It probably gives slight increase in smoothness, but I doubt it will give major increase unless you are heavily running out of memory while running WoW.
Yes it will give you a small boost since 2 sticks will run in dual channel mode.
You will have to get another 8GB module with the same speed though, if possible the same brand and exact model, else it might cause problems.
Or get 2 new sticks.
Some laptops have one stick soldered in, and only one sodim slot for expansion. Like my ASUS. It’s really annoying they decided to do that instead of 2 SODIM slots.
So I’d suggest the OP check if his current ram is soldered in or in a slot first.
