Hi everyone, whenever multiple AoE or raid effects are being used, my FPS are dropping to even below 30FPS.
Additionally, I have noticed some short periods of screen freeze (2-5sec) after loading screen disapears.
My specs are:
RX6700XT
16 GB RAM 3200 CL16
Ryzen 5 5600
4k Resoultion
This is a CPU bottleneck not a GPU one in this case.
You can check your GPU load in a raid and you will see it is most likely below 100% even though your GPU is not great for 4K.
With optimized settings you can play at 4k 60 fps with the 6700 XT.
Let me clarify some things here:
Texture resolution has no impact on FPS until you hit the VRAM max (which will never happen with your 12GB VRAM in WoW).
Particle density is more heavy on the GPU, not CPU, so in raids it will only help if your GPU is maxed out.
Compute effects can be VERY heavy on the GPU in certain areas with lots of dense volumetrics.
Like at the portal in the Emerald Dream.
It is strongly recommended to set it to good. Which will make the volumetrics kinda pixelated but there are not many places in DF that have those anyways.
This doesn’t do anything in raids since there are none.
FXAA is the worst form of Antialiasing and a very ancient and outdated one too.
CMAA is alot better but still blurs the image.
MSAA is the best one but has a much higher cost.
At 4K you might not even need AA at all. Give it a try and see what suits you best.
Has no impact in raids.
For open world though, it has a pretty high cost on the CPU too.
Recommended is usually not to go higher than 7 since the diminishing returns are high and the cost also unproportional.
In your case i would try 7 and if you can’t hold 60 in the open world than go lower till you’re good.
For ground clutter, just leave it at 7 unless you hate grass
Shadow quality and Liquid detail are heavy on the GPU.
You will need to lower these like 2 notches.
This is fine except enable SSAO.
About resample quality though, this only comes into play if you move the renderscale setting below or above 100%, which you should NOT do since it is currently bugged.
Tldr;
Your GPU is fine for open world 60 FPS with the adjusted settings mentioned above.
You might have to experiment a bit to find the sweet spot for you.
Your CPU though isn’t cutting it for 60+ FPS in a raid.
WoW’s engine is very CPU-limited (basically singlethreaded engine), so you need the fastest CPU you can get to reach acceptable high FPS in mass player encounters.
The easiest upgrade for you without changing the platform would be to replace your 5600X with a 5700X3D or 5800X3D.
You will only need a BIOS update before that and maybe a better cooler if you don’t have a good one yet.
If you plan to upgrade your platform in the future then obviously go AM5 with a 7800X3D or the upcoming 9000 X3D in September/November.
Hello, thank you so much for detailed answer. I will buy then the 5800X3D with proper cooler. Do I need a better RAM sticks than the current one for the new processor ?
Currently, I have Crucial 16GB (2x8GB) 3000MHz CL15 Ballistix Sport LT
I think I will also need to upgrade the PSU as my current BeQuiet Pure Power 11 600W gold probably won’t keep up with the new CPU
No 3200 is fine for the X3D series, they don’t scale as much with RAM speed as the non X3D (because the X3Ds have that large cache).
Is it 3000 or 3200? You said 3200 in the initial post.
Is the XMP profile loaded in the bios and are the RAM sticks in the proper dual channel slots according to the mainboard manual?
No, don’t worry about that. 600W BeQuiet is more than fine for your combo.
My 5800X3D is drawing between 70-80W in WoW and under full load up to 120W.
Your 6700 XT needs abot 220W.
So a quality 600W should be fine for your whole system.
I’m running a 4090 on 750W
Hello, thanks for the advice. I found that my RAM sticks were in the wrong slots . Additionally, the GPU was inserted in the PCI Express x4 slot . Hopefully, I will receive my 5700X3D probably on Monday to start benchmarking it after the fixes.
Best thing for you to do is to upgrade that 5600 to a 5800X3D or move over to AM5 and put in a 7800X3D which’ll eat 4K games for breakfast and not break a sweat.
Cheapest option is the 5800x3d though as you got the motherboard, just take out old CPU, put new one in (after updating bios in case) and you’re good to go for some improvement.
Even a 5700X3D will be able to do it, it’s close to the more expensive 5800 version with only a few FPS drops but it’s still an improvement over the 5600.
. Additionally, the GPU was inserted in the PCI Express x4 slot 
. Hopefully, I will receive my 5700X3D probably on Monday to start benchmarking it after the fixes.