BeepBeep

From personal experience back when 3.1.3 was around, try this...

I had 25-40FPS in populated cities on a 4870,

I turned the "Shadow Quality" bar from highest all the way to lowest and gained over 120FPS.

25-40 --> 139-170

As others have said, shadow quality is the FPS killer.

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Loosenut

I sit right around 30fps in dal, no visible lag and I run the 19x.xx drivers on my old 7900gs oc 550/700 which is up from 450/650 with stock cooling. I used to have to have lag issues but I found out is was my xp 32bit install and my router dying. and I have all settings maxxed with shadows OFF

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assaulth3ro911

... Well still... Did you overclock your hardware too much? Have you been putting too much load on it? Also maybe its the drivers again. Try and contact your hardware vendors.

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xFALL3Nx

hmmm that's weird when i tired wow i maxed it and ran 16xaa 16x msaa 1280x1024 at 73-75fps out side and mid 50s in towns never dropped below 40fps

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iquark

1280x1024=/=1920x1200

TurboTurtle

Bold is the entirety of your problem.

knock the shadows 2 notches from full, max everything else - enjoy 50+ FPS as a minimum, minus Dalaran and other major cities.

WoW's graphics engines handles shadows at max very poorly, and always results in either horrible FPS and/or (normally and) memory leakage.

I got 30+ FPS in 25 man raids on a 8800GTS stock clocked with everything on high minus shadows which were at half. My GTX 260 gave me 60+ constant FPS in 25 man raids (minus heavy AoE situations) with everything maxed minus shadows which was one notch below max. If I maxed it, once every hour WoW would crash. This was with my i7 at stock clocks, and WoW does not utilize more than 2 cores if I remember correctly.

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stc38

I get good performance in WoW from my sig rig, but there are a couple of things that I think might factor into what FPS you get on your screen. Latency, while it is not directly connected to your hardware, latency can hinder your performance. The population of the server/area you are in, the more players, pets and mounts running around can limit your performance. General status of the server, many high end PvE guilds that run new instances as soon as they are realesed find bugs all the time in new encounters that can cause lock ups and full disconnections. WoW is not perfect but expecting 60+ FPS all the time in a random enviroment is not always going to happen.

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