Hi,
Recently when I play wow I am barely able to get more than 100 fps in graphic settings 7 in most populated area. I just found out today that my graphic card actually is used at 0% or 0.5% on my task manager I did try everything blizzard recommand resetting ui etc on the troubleshooting page I manage to gain maybe 30 fps cause of a cvar problem but other than that my fps still very low for the pc I have. I did change the number of core usage to utilise all my core that did increase my fps a little bit. Wow is really the only game to do that cause for most other game I play I get a very high fps even at higher quality settings.
Spec
Nvidia RTX 2070
32 gb ram 3200hz
Ryzen 3800x (turbo always kept my at 4,35 ghz)
ssd samsung evo 860 1tb
I am out of idea and I really tried everything
What kind of nuclear weapon do you have?! mine has 1/4 of your specs 
1 Like
Obviously that cannot be right, or else the game would not run at all or at 1 FPS 
100 FPS in a populated area is actually very high for WoW.
WoW is based on an ancient engine with dualcore CPUs in mind back then.
It only scales well with high IPC and clockrates not CPU-threads like modern games.
TLDR; WoW runs as expected on your system
have you checked that you frame rate isn’t capped and that vsync and gsync are disabled
yhea I did put uncappped framerate and vsynch/gsynch disable
No need to worry here! 
The listed “0%” utilization is actually a somewhat famous bug in the operating system itself - fortunately it is a purely cosmetic one as the card is properly put to work (just the displayed value is incorrect). Usually this bug will occur in hardware configurations with multiple GPUs (even if they’re just integrated/virtual ones), but it has also been found to occur apparently pretty much at random in very high-end hardware.
A bit of trivia beyond that: setting 7 on the performance slider is actually already what used to be called “Ultra” before we implemented said slider. Setting 8+ is somewhat experimental in nature and will usually only yield trivial (if any) improvements in visual quality for most hardware setups… so while its always fun pushing the envelope a bit to see if the hardware holds up in most cases it is barely notable even if it does.
4 Likes
Thanks for the answer that explained a lot then!
Ive been wondering same thing: i think max GPU use has been around 3%. Ive 2080ti oc, 9900k, 1440p 165hz monitor. I game with all 10, maxed and with advanced maxed too, in boralus harbor fps can get down to 70ish, but in rest of game its mostly 100 to 165(max). Any idea how to fix this bug?
Yes. Use a proper tool to measure the utilization like GPU-Z and not Windows.
1 Like
if you have two graphic cards, internal and external for example, make sure you are runing the game with the right graphic card.
Do you really think if he gets 100+ FPS on 10 that he is playing with his iGPU? 
He is looking at the GPU usage in the Windows Taskmanager i bet.
If he looked at it in GPU-Z he would see the real usage.
Anyways his FPS seem fine, so i don’t even know what the problem here is.
Yes, it’s possible. On my laptop I have 90 fps. But looks like you are here to argue with everything and with everyone on the forum without having any knowledge.
Yep then you must be right, 3% usage equals 100+ FPS. I guess he would have 3000 then with 100% 
Also if he have two video cards and let’s say: he run the game on integrated video card, that card will have let’s say 100% usage and the external card will have 0% and he may looking into that card percentage. Thats why I said to check and make sure the game is runing on the proper card.
Just if task manager would show it right would b nice. Not using igpu. Yea, wow actually gets over 1000fps, when min settings and uncapped.
For detailed tracking of used resources the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer can be used. For more visual - HwInfo and MSI Afterburner.
The FPS is normal/fine for your system. Probably just a visual bug.
1 Like