Testing Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in WoW

Windows May update brings “Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling” to it WDDM implementation. It also requires GPU hardware/driver support to work. It got some traction and speculation about performance impact but when some benchmarks and analysis started popping out it turned out it’s quite transparent change with no FPS changes… although some benchmarks did noticed performance uplift on like smaller CPUs… and some bugs/regressions.

In case of WoW you can check my benchmarks:

https://rk.edu.pl/en/testing-hardware-accelerated-gpu-scheduling-world-warcraft/

It works, no regressions and for i5-9400F + GTX 1070 there is rather no noticeable effect on performance.

Aside of that - few pre-Shadowlands tips: if the next expansion will launch with VRS and raytraced shadows support you may pick a GPU that support those features. And if you don’t have Shadowlands yet - AMD RX 5000 GPUs can be sold bundled with Shadowlands (not live yet).

Can you realistically see that happening…?
If Shadowlands wasn’t an Expansion Pack (but a stand-alone game), maybe…

WoW movie DVD had a 30-day play time + base game license code in it (and the dvds were super cheap). While here we have a GPU bundle. That’s not a volume sale so they can likely just make “all included” code.

Still – revolves around players needing a new graphics card and not having already paid for Shadowlands to get KT/ZT…

It’s meme marketing. Nvidia added free ssds when liquidating old pascal stock.

This promo for it wow value will be super niche. Build a PC, try WoW, much wow.

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