With this setup, I have to turn the Graphics Quality from 10 to 6, if I want a seemingly consistent FPS: 60.0. My question is, would it suffice to upgrade my “4095MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER (Gigabyte)” to something like an “RTX 3080 Ti” to run Shadowlands at Graphic Quality 10 with a consistent FPS of 60 or would I need to replace even more ?
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Keeping the previous question and answer in mind. What if I also wanted to screen record at 3840x2160 through OBS, while maintaining a minimum of 60 FPS with Graphics Quality 10 in Shadowlands? I’m going to assume that if that is the ultimate goal, the advise would probably be, purchase a second, possibly relatively cheap pc, add to this the replaced “4095MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER (Gigabyte)” videocard and make the recordings with this pc?
I doubt even developers can answer your questions accurately because there are so many variables, from background programs, driver versions to installed WoW addons, where the performance bottleneck etc is.
One obvious bottleneck in your current system would be slow as molasses DDR4 RAM assuming you didn’t mistype 1600 Mhz. Did you mean it is 3200 Mhz?
Single-thread CPU performance is another possibility besides GPU, especially if you want to keep high FPS in raids with multiple addons as these are for most part single-thread bound.
If your FPS is dropping due to addons then it may be hard to do anything about it.
If your FPS is dropping in combat, mass player/NPC situations then you need a stronger CPU.
If your FPS is dropping in Ardenweald at 4K+ or higher then you probably need upcoming RTX 4090 or RX 7900 XT
As for recording - as needed you can use a HDMI capture card and capture it from another PC or by the capture card itself. Then you can look at Nvidia or AMD native solutions for recording. Obviously whatever is recording need really good and fast storage.
Double Data Rate. Sometimes you can get memory frequency instead of MT/s so 3200MT/s is 1600MHz for DDR.
Sadly I did not mistype. I directly copied the wording from Speccy, so it indeed is 1600 Mhz. I’ve been using this setup for video-editing mostly, which went quite well, but does seem to disagree with me when I try to work without proxies on 3840x2160 footage.
From your reply, I gather that this advise would be “on top” of purchasing a new GPU, as this seems the most logical conclusion.
No idea how Speccy lists the memory information, but like Sharknado above mentions, technically 1600 Mhz DDR4 is correct for 3200 MT as it is double datarate, generally just people use (me included) often use it incorrectly hence the confusion.
If the RAM is DDR4-3200 (PC4-25600) then I wouldn’t worry about RAM speeds to much.
4k gaming in general is very demanding and WoW being often single-thread bound doesn’t help so I don’t know how well even the most powerful computers currently can play WoW in 4k during raids with 20+ people, addons etc.
I don’t think it’s dropping because of addons and it’s not dropping in combat either, well it is, but I’ve noticed that it was also / mostly dropping while looking at very “busy” backgrounds in Shadowlands, while generally not participating in combat. Overall I can run around Shadowlands with Graphics Quality 10 and have FPS 60, but there are certain situations where it will drastically drop to 50, 40 or even 30 depending on how much is going on and that’s without OBS recording in the background.
Can you show screenshots? Widefield views in new zones are GPU heavy while mass npc/player actions create cpu single core limitation (“world state”). And there are semi-bugs like SoA and some semi-transparent assets where the gpu is flooded with excess work.
A detail that may be worth calling out here: “7” on the quality slider is what used to be called “Ultra” before said slider was added. Any setting above that point is a little experimental in nature, and will only rarely bring really notable improvements in visual fidelity.
Beyond that - drastic FPS drops are very common with certain “datacrawler”-type addons. I’d absolutely suggest to clear them out fully to get a proper performance baseline, before starting to replace components.
