Hi all,
I recently returned to the game and started my adventure in the dragon isles. I’ve noticed that I’m getting much lower then expected FPS, in comparison to previous expansions.
my PC specs are as follows:
AMD RX 6800
AMD Ryzen 3600
16 gigs of 3600 ram
I play on a 27 inch 2k monitor with 144 HZ refresh rate.
most of the time I’m getting 50- 90 FPS, at all DF zones (open areas, not Valdrakken which is obviously much lower). that feels a little strange to me considering my specs should provide well over a 100 and when friends with weaker specs are getting higher frames. My bios are updated to the latest version, as well as my GPU drivers. furthermore, I’m not running an Addon heavy setup, and even when I did disable them all, there was no difference.
I am currently on Graphics quality 10, however I did lower some specific things in there like shadows and texture filtering.
if anyone had performance issues and managed to fix them, id love to hear what helped, cause playing on a 144hz monitor with an average of 70 fps and dropping lower is not a very nice experience, especially when the new zones are stunning!
thanks!
I only half-joke, but updating to 5800X3D from 3800X helped me.
What resolution are you running? Running at 1080 vs 1440 vs 2160 is quite difference. Some graphics settings are also huge performance drains while not really improving grahics. I would play around with them and see if dropping any helps.
In general WoW benefits lots from the single thread performance, and extra cache in the X3D-model(s) seem to help a lot, too.
Some people are also reporting lower performance in general after DF patch, or stuttering in some situations. I haven’t personally noticed these.
edit: AMD also released recently new drivers so if you haven’t installed them that might be worth checking out, too.
Not really. Even the fastest CPUs on the market will not get you 100 FPS on max settings in a full Valdrakken.
You should have around half the FPS of a 5800X3D, so on average in Valdrakken that would be 40-50 (with most settings on 7).
I upgraded from a 3900X to a 5800X3D, so i know what FPS to expect
The upgrade literally doubled my FPS where CPU-limited.
You need to lower settings which reduce CPU-load since this is your bottleneck (and a big one with a 3000 Ryzen and their subpar IPC).
The two main settings would be viewing distance and environmental detail, set them to 7 and see your FPS go way up.
If you want to play at 3 digit FPS, there is no way around lowering those settings or upgrading your CPU.
The 5800X3D is the best option for your AM4 board, all while being as fast as an Intel 13600K with DDR5 and faster than the Ryzen 7000 series except the new 3D-Cache ones (in WoW).
The visual differences between Graphics Quality 8 and GQ9 and 10, are so marginal, they are all but worthless, but the extra strain on your CPU and GPU, is quite significant.
GQ 8 USED to be GQ10 until about 2 X-Packs ago.
I honestly don’t get why some people MURDER their PC’s for a very slight almost imperceptible increase.
Thank you all for your responses.
I knew I had a mild bottle neck but I guess I underestimated that in WoW it could be worse.
I lowered the settings you said and it did provide some improvement, I will experiment with lowering to GQ 8 and 9 and seeing how it is.
if anyone has anymore suggestions they’re welcome.
in regards to the CPU upgrading - currently the 5800X3D isn’t very much in stock where I live and if it is its more expensive then it should be. would upgrading to any other in the 5000 series make a difference? would a 5600X work or its too small of an upgrade?
Thanks again.
I think it depends on how much it costs where you live, but the upgrade is not significant.
You will have better FPS but not really sastisfying.
If you can get a 5600 for cheap it might be worth it for you cause honestly, almost anything is better than a pre 5000 series Ryzen, even older Intels.
A 5600 non-x is 135€ here (the X is not worth the extra 20€) in Germany and a 5800X3D is 314€ and for that price totally worth it.
I thin 3600 to 5600X would give about 5-20% single thread performance increase depending on test, but no idea how well that it would translate to WoW. 5800X3D also benefits other games like Factorio, Stellaris etc. if you happen to play them as they are very single core bound and love the extra cache.
You can see more details on Techpowerup’s benchmarks for example. Synthetic single thread benchmarks do not take advatange of 5800X3D’s extra cache so 5800X3D clocks about the same as 5600X in these in single thread. In gaming general differences from extra cache are far more noticeable.
thanks again for your responses. (i tried to respond to both you and Grelier but that didn’t seem to work)
i’ll track the availability and price of the 5800X3D, cause currently i found a store selling it for 365 euros. hopefully it drops a bit so i can get it at a better price. is there any other CPU in the 5000’s series thats worth tracking?
Only look for 5800X3D deals, it can keep up with a 13700K in most games, in 1080p/1440p/4K. And CPU bound games like MMOs greatly benefit from the large cache.
