I have a few questions maybe the community can help me out with this one.
When i play the game i’v sadly lagging problems. Normally in area’s without any player i’v no lags i can play on ultra high quality with fps of 140. But when i use my heartstone and go back to valdrakken or even BGs, areas with alot of online players somehow my FPS drops to 30. Even with everything on LOW or Disabling few options i get 30 fps. Lagging hard. Makes me feeling to quit the game because its horrible game play experience.
I play it from a HP Pavillion i5 gaming laptop. 500gb SSD.
8 GB RAM (i think the ram is the problem, i ordered already 16 gb, hope it arrives this week).
Graphic card is a RTX 3050 Ti 4GB.
Open windows resource manager during BGs or when the game stutters in general and check what’s maxed out.
Look at GPU/CPU load in particular.
Ctrl+shift+Esc → Performance tab
And keep in mind WoW’s user interface is single threaded so even if just one of the cores is maxed at 100% it’s likely to be the cause of stuttering.
Also make sure you have an FPS foreground cap matching the refresh rate of your monitor.
You’ll find that MMOs in particular are very CPU dependant particularly when they have a huge amount of players on the screen. Every interaction on screen needs to be processed, even if it doesn’t affect you.
The number of addons can also affect performance. Combat log parsers like Skada, Details etc take quite a bit of processing power, particularly if you are running them in a raid.
One tip for addons, check to see if there’s any addons that are crashing. Blizzard can change the API during patches and sometimes this can break addons. If you load addons that are out of date they can cause an issue. Unhandled errors take quite a lot of resources to handle so can slow down a system. Always update addons for a while after any patch.
Having more memory than you need is also very important. Windows doesn’t waste memory not in use. For example if you load WoW and have 8Gb free memory it will use that 8GB to cache files it thinks you might ask for.
While the graphics ‘card’ is probably fare better than my desktop card, your processor might lack some punch being a, presumably, laptop model.
Tweak the settings down, thing like shadows and fancy light effects aren’t really needed and don’t contribute much.
My desktop processor is an i5 about 10 years old and the graphics card is about 7 years old and it was a mid range at the time. It works with WoW fine as long as I don’t go fully ultra.
It looks better than my ancient desktop. Look up performance guides. You can tone down some effects that gobble up resources for very little visual impact. Since it’s a 3050 it probably has ray tracing? There’s been some feedback on these forums that it makes very little difference.
But extra memory will help quite a bit, not just in games but other tasks too.
