Hello. I’m having some trouble for a while now with my FPS. I mainly play WoW only and I have recently bought a 4090 rtx in december. My PC specs are Ryzen9 5900x - 32GB Ram - 4090 RTX.
I play on the lowest settings possible in the game (at 1) 1080P Monitor 165hz with projected texture enabled. I have my Nvidia control panel settings also set to max performance.
In Dornogal its always around 40FPS. In raids it goes to 15-20 FPS. My CPU + GPU Utilization is always around 10%-15%. I’ve tried everything possible from reading previous articles to youtube videos but I haven’t found a fix yet.
A 4090 does not improve your FPS in WoW in any way if your CPU is limiting, which is always the case.
Your 5900X is not a great CPU for WoW or a good pairing for a 4090.
I would normally suggest just getting a 5700X3D, but in your case a new platform (AM5) would make much more sense.
Optimally you want the 9800X3D for the best performance in WoW and other games aswell.
WoW ist mostly a singlethreaded game with a 20+ year old engine.
This is why a X3D CPU with that extra cache is so good in this game.
You can see the relative CPU performance in this old benchmark from DF launch.
Obviously it’s missing the 7800X3D and the 9800X3D.
Each one is ~25% increase over the other, which means 50% on top of the 5800X3D.
Even though you are on a 4090, you should NOT crank up the grfx settings like viewing distance and environmental details and also not the raytraced shadows.
These settings increase the amount of draw calls by alot, meaning the load on the CPU and thus the CPU-limit.
I would recommend not going over 7 with your CPU and turning off RT shadows if you turned them on.
Also note, the renderscale is still broken, do not set it to lower or higher than 100%.
So we all have same r9 5900x CPU and different video cards.
The story about Ryzen 9 5900X, Socket AM4, 3.7-4.8GHz (12C/24T), 6MB L2 + 64MB L3 not suitable for 20y old game is bull shift
I was playing on 7 setting with 140 fps 1080p in WW outworld before 11.1.
Now I get 50 if I don’t move and 24 in movement CPU load is like 10-15%
“Outworld” is not raid… the load is not even comparable, the only comparable thing would be doing a current worldboss.
It’s not a fast CPU for WoW, that’s a fact.
It’s an ok CPU for most other games.
Is the game badly optimized? Yes of course.
Do we need to brute force good FPS with a highend CPU? Yes.
Yeah. 4070Ti Super and i5 13600KF + 32GB RAM here. After 11.1 the game is ruined for me and it won’t get fixed for sure. They don’t care… the frames are PATHETIC. Especially in Undermine.
hey, chiming in here aswell. So I was watching some Echo player on twitch, and they said that the new “CPU monitor” feature (where you can see how much CPU usage there is), is apparently so unoptmized that it literally deletes 20% FPS or something. I think there was some addon developer who noticed it (maybe even the same guy/girl who noticed that the default blizzard nameplates were causing massive FPS drops aswell, because they set the opacity to zero (0) instead of disabling it (i think it friendly nameplates, so even if you don’t have that enabled, it’s still “active” even though you can’t see it. (try disabling the entire interface with (ALT+Z default keybind) in Dornogal and you FPS will go up A LOT))
This has always been the case, nothing to to with the monitor
Just turning off nameplates gives a big boost already.
But back to that cpu usage display, i’m pretty sure Gingi said in his stream yesterday that disabling it (via WA or a script, can’t remember) doesn’t do anything for FPS.
Maybe someone can do more testing in a raid environment or m+ big pulls or something.
