War within the worse optimized expansion for smooth gameplay?

[Naviic-ravencrest]

Hi,

Played wow for many years, with intel i7 13700K and RTX4070.

Raids have always been shuttering and not really enjoyeble for that reaons, but 5 man content has always been running smooth.

In war within I feel that half of the dungeons feel “shoppy” and fps goes from 130 to 80 on 5+ target pulls and it feels like 40 fps even if it shows 80 fps.

I have turned everything to lowest, track if any addon/wa is CPU intensive - turned off/replaced a lot of addons etc etc.

It just ruin the whole xperience when your lagging every time you pull 5+ mobs.

I will pay 3.000.000 gold to anyone who can discord me and watch my gameplay and help me figureing out what cause this - but yet again I think there is no solution since everyone I talk to have the same problem. Crazy that they cant make a smooth game after 20 + years of developing.

Why does wow classic feel butter smooth but when you jump into a retail dungeon you feel like the game has gone backwards during these years in terms of performence…

[Aimjinx-blackhand]

Not much you can do when the source of the problems is the game engine.

Some settings you should check though:

-renderscale MUST be at 100%, not lower, not higher, it has been bugged for 6+ months now and will kill your FPS even on a 4090

-turn RT shadows off even if your GPU can easily handle them, they have a high CPU cost

-in open world and open dungeons, viewing distance and environmental details hit the CPU hard, do not go above 7 even on high end hardware, not worth the FPS cost

-in some areas compute effects (volumetrics like fog) and liquids (water) can have a big impact, set to good if you are having problems there

[Soggo-kazzak]

Also I heard that Target FPS option is bugged too.

[Aimjinx-blackhand]

I think it never actually worked