Is there someway to increase the amount of cores wow uses? it normaly only uses 4 of my cores and i run 16 cores and i would like it to make use of more cores for abit more performance i have tried the “processAffinityMask” method but it just gets erased out automaticly as soon as one starts the game… is just such a shame if you cant make use of the extra cores that are doing nothing at all pretty much.
I don’t believe there is. For as far as I know, it is determined by the game (and the amount of bits you allow it to use. 32-bit is capped at 1 core, for as far as I know).
And I agree. Despite hearing that some people experience the use of all their cores equally. WoW usually only uses 4 or 5 of my cores as well, and I got 12.
Add to that, that 1 core is being used around 99%±, while the others are around 20-40%.
But if a person in here knows of the holy grail, I will appreciate the knowledge of the location!
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Old game, old engine. Nothing you can do on your side. Blizzard needs to improve the CPU efficiency, and I’m not sure how easy it is for them to do that. I’m assuming it’s not since they haven’t done it yet despite it making the game much more accessible to players with worse computers.
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thats a bummer ;/ only reason i turned to the forums was cause gm couldnt help and he asked me to go ask in the forums x)
Wth are u doing with 16 cores? Supporting NASA? U use 16gb gpu and 64gb ram to it too at least? 
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haha yes i am running 16 gb gpu and 64gb ram
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Old programming problem since the day multiple cores were a thing.
It’s hard to decide which process goes to what core, not to mention the condition where if work on one core is done it and it has to wait on another core for other work that it is still working on?
In the end data is expected to be present at given time, but what do you do when a core doesn’t deliver on time?
Does that mean the game has to halt or send a command to the server to notify it still hasn’t completed the task?
When to join all threads together?
Timing is an issue and it’s not as simple to say that one task can be broken up into 12 cores for example.
Some things can be broken into multiple parts and some cannot.
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I have eight cores it uses 4 cores and it works flawlessly no issues but still would be good to use more cores if the performance would increase at all.
When you pop WoW’s details in the task manager (or any program) it lists each thread as a separate “CPU”. So people with 4 cores/8threads who don’t know better would think WoW is using 8 cores… but they don’t even have 8 cores.
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Why would spreading it across more cores make wow run faster? If you’re not maxing out a core less is better. Single core works better for games, multi cores for heavy work load processes. Depending on if you have decent clock speeds, so anything within like the last 8 years lol.
Dx12 have been trying to use more cores to increase speed. With petty garbage results and a ton of porblems, any game not heavily tuned to run dx12 from scratch, has pretty much flopped.
What if you look at performance and switch the CPU to viewing all cores and point out which ones are working?
Also, is it affected by physical or logical cores? Because mine got 6 physical cores, each having 2 logical cores (so 12 logical cores in total). And it’s the logical cores that are presented in the task manager when I view the “performance” tab.
From my experience, WoW runs at about 4-5 cores and maxes out 1, but doesn’t even scratch 50% on the others.
GPU (1060 3GB): 0~2% usage.
CPU (Ryzen5 2600): 20% usage.
FPS: 45…
Blizzpls
It’s really frustrating to be honest. When in Ny’alotha I get frame drops to 50 in the open zone, hivemind drops to 45 as soon as the fight start, while seeing the aforementioned numbers in my task manager…
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My bf has a ryzen, for some reason my nvidia works a lot better with wow. I don’t get the stuttering/ the frame freeze he gets.
If you can, try to switch out the graphics card and use another one and check performance.
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buy a EVO 5 motherboard it boosts ur grafic cards FPS capasity with a addunal 75% …
Ryzen = CPU, NVidia = GPU (which I have). Unless you’re talking about intel, I can’t swap out my CPU, nor do I have a spare GPU laying around to test it. I don’t get stuttering, it’s just frame rates going down while neither GPU or CPU are being fully used. The bottleneck seems to be the CPU, though I have no idea why.
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Ah sorry meant to say the gpu from amd, what’s it called Radeon? Are your cpu and gpu from amd both?
AMD CPU, NVidia GPU
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As far as I know those don’t really work well together since amd is trying to make people get both.
Have you done any digging on the issue? Like any other software that’s bottlenecked or anyone else that has this problem?
i just overkilling every game with my super computer i got. Funny thing is i never found out whos the anomyous person who gave it to me. Creepy part was he had a mask covering his face just gave me the box and ran off. found my new computer in the box.
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Yeah okay, I’m going to stop you right there. This is 100% false.
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