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Low WoW FPS (is it hardware driven?)

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I have been playing WoW from almost its inception and up until WotLK, I did not have any frame rate issues. Now that Wraith is here, I get less then 10 FPS during raid fights, usually hangs around 4-7 FPS. Did the game change its graphics enough to cause this degradation in my gaming?

I am currently running a 7900GS (AGP), with a Socket A Barton (OCed to 2.2GHz) with 2GBs RAM (not in dual channel). Is my processor really holding my system back that much?
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Check if advanced shadows are turned on, they where always a FPS killer for me in raids etc. And you won't miss them too much.
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Seems like a driver issue,try updating to 182.**
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Nix the new shadows. They kill.
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Penicilyn
Didn't the expansion raise the requirements for the game?

I'd start seriously looking at an upgrade.

Here's an example of a good WoW system on a budget.

GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128376
$65
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Brisbane 2.3GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103221
$39.50
CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145184
$19.99
SAPPHIRE 100255DDR4 Radeon HD 4670 512MB 128-bit GDDR4
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102818
$74.99
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Rook_
A top end i7 system would get major FPS dumps in Dalaran. Some of it is your setup, the other part is Blizzards programming. My system should eat up WoW and spit it out, but I get ~30FPS in Dalaran.

Yes full shadows is a major FPS killer in WoW. Wish Blizzard would make this game a bit more efficient.

Edit: I wholeheartedly agree with Penicilyn, due to the new stuff coming in, you can get very high quality components extremely cheap.
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Originally Posted by Penicilyn
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Didn't the expansion raise the requirements for the game?

I'd start seriously looking at an upgrade.

Here's an example of a good WoW system on a budget.

GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128376
$65
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Brisbane 2.3GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103221
$39.50
CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145184
$19.99
SAPPHIRE 100255DDR4 Radeon HD 4670 512MB 128-bit GDDR4
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102818
$74.99

His PSU may not be enough either. When I made the jump from my old Socket A system my PSU didn't even have the proper connections to power my MB.
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Didn't the expansion raise the requirements for the game?

I'd start seriously looking at an upgrade.

Just wanted to confirm that they did raise the requirements a bit. Especially the recommended requirements part. It says dual core processors where as previous ones were single core. Also an increase on video card requirement too. I know this because I was disappointed to see the upped requirement when I was out shopping one day, dreaming of going back into the wonderful WoW (I need internet).
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Yea, lower the shadows. My WoW game didn't start lagging until I threw in some of the new shadows.
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Coma
As other people have said, they made a huge upgrade to shadows. I don't take that much of a hit from having them on, and they're beautiful imo
Prettiest part of the game, next to reflections on environment. (but yes, they're a WotLK thing)
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SSJ5Broli
LOL try going to Wintergrasp in the middle of a fight you'll get 20 fps ;-)

my fps didn't really change when I turn on shadows. Besides they flicker for some reason on anything higher than 1 setting.
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Seems like a driver issue,try updating to 182.**

Thanks for the suggestion. I updated from 178. to 182. and double my FPS. We will have to see how it holds up to a raid on Tuesday.
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Realcacheese
Wow got a lot more graphically intensive with the new expac.
Makes me wanna hurry up and get a new rig so I can experience all of it.. (I play w/ mostly low settings)
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Blizz' upped the graphics for WoTLK, so performance will go down.

I can pretty much max it on my 4850, going to ~15fps in raids (haven't been in any REAL raids, but general performance is in the 40's and 50's.
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OrAxE
Take of advanced shadows my FPS is between 30-60 with WOTLK with it off but when i turn it back on its so fustrating to play
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Victorious25
I would actually recommend turning spell detail down for while you are raiding, the Death Knight AoE effects are stupidly hard on computer, so if you have 2+ DKs in your raid it will have a noticeable effect. Just make sure you turn spell detail back up for PvP, otherwise you can't see paladin consecrations >.<
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