WoW players and their rigs?

[supaidaaman]

This is a question to those on here that play world of warcraft. I wanted to see where everyones rig compares with frame rates and such.

X2 4200
A8N SLI premium
2 gig corsair twinx c2p2
win xp home
Geforce 7900gt sc cs @ 590 mhz core, 810 mhz clock stable at 34c load
300gig WD sataII 16mb 7200RPM

(of course my frame rate is capped at 64fps)
My resolution is 1280x1024
multisampling 24 24 x4 (maxed out)
everything maxed except spell detail on low
no glow screen
the shader and misc options are for best performance

also my Desktop config settings are set for best peformance (advanced settings tweaked also)

In a 40 man raid lets say BWL in the welp rooms i get about 28-30fps
IF/Org i get about 35-55 on a busy night
walking through stv i get about 45-64

Is this normal? My friends 9800pro on his alienware laptop gets about the same FPS when we compare and play side by side...is that normal?

 

[WaTaGuMp]

AMD 4600+
Asus A8N Sli Premium
Corsair TWINX 3200 2 gig
X1900XT


I run at 60 fps capped alot of the time, fps will drop below 20 in heavy aoe fights in 40 man raids, even a guy in our guild says his does and he has a Conroe. I run 1680 res maxxed settings, so yes it seems no matter what you build fps will drop under certain conditions.

 

[supaidaaman]

thats nice to know

 

[LLoose]

2 Rigs.
See in sig.

Desktop: Everything is maxed and running on my native widescreen resolution. I still dip below 30fps occasionally, but it is not my hardware's fault, it is caused by lag. I use vsync, so it stays at a pretty solid 60 during normal play. If there is a lot going on or on a griffin, it may leak down to about 45. This is with everything I can check, slide and enable on and it looks amazing in widescreen.

Laptop: Everything is turned down and running @ 800x600. I get a pretty steady 38-30fps. I try not to play on my laptop thought because of the ware and tear from using the keys over and over again.

 

[Wreckage]

I have played WoW on a 5900 and a Radeon Mobile. It's not very graphics intense. I currently play it on a 7800GS 1680x1050 everything maxed with no problems.

 

[nitromullet]

1680x1050 16xSSAA/16xHQAF, FPS hover between 40-60. Rig in sig.

...btw, if you force it in the driver, you can use 8xS SuperSampling AA with that GeForce in WoW, instead of the max 4xAA from the in game video options. Glad to see that someone else plays Horde on here also...

 

[Wreckage]

Glad to see that someone else plays Horde on here also...

Undead Warlock FTW

 

[RollWave]

Originally posted by: supaidaaman
This is a question to those on here that play world of warcraft. I wanted to see where everyones rig compares with frame rates and such.

X2 4200
A8N SLI premium
2 gig corsair twinx c2p2
win xp home
Geforce 7900gt sc cs @ 590 mhz core, 810 mhz clock stable at 34c load
300gig WD sataII 16mb 7200RPM

(of course my frame rate is capped at 64fps)
My resolution is 1280x1024
multisampling 24 24 x4 (maxed out)
everything maxed except spell detail on low
no glow screen
the shader and misc options are for best performance

also my Desktop config settings are set for best peformance (advanced settings tweaked also)

In a 40 man raid lets say BWL in the welp rooms i get about 28-30fps
IF/Org i get about 35-55 on a busy night
walking through stv i get about 45-64

Is this normal? My friends 9800pro on his alienware laptop gets about the same FPS when we compare and play side by side...is that normal?

How is your IDLE so low on that 7900GT?

 

[Madellga]

Back when I was playing WoW, I used an Opteron 170, 2GB RAM and a 7800GTX with HQ, Lod Clamp, 4xAA, 8xAF, SSA, all details maxed (1920x1200). If I recall correctly, frames were always above 50FPS.

I tried also the ATI X1800 series, but shimmering was worse than ATI (for this game specifically). I had a thread here one year ago about this.

I used to play WoW but not anymore - the fees started to bother me (casual player) and it is a game that rewards hardcore players - I also got tired of endless ganking (I was the victim normally) and didn't have the willing to start over on a normal server.

I was playing Horde also (never Alliance and had a Warrior at 57, Warlock at 35 and Hunter at 28. If I could go back, I would have started with the Warlock, much more fun to play than the Warrior.

Now I play GW and I can tell it is cool. Sure, some things are not like WoW, but the difference between casual gamers and hardcores are much smaller. You don't waste time to travel between citie (just the first time) and you can have henchmen to help you with some quests (not the hard ones). And there is also no Ninja looting or you cleaning the field and someone else coming to kill the NPC you were looking for.

 

[supaidaaman]

How is your IDLE so low on that 7900GT?

i should fix that by saying the idle is around 32c and the load is 41c

Im using zalman VF900 CU, its the most amazing cooling.


EDIT:

Also how do you force the 8x sampling in the driver?

 

[nitromullet]

how do you force the 8x sampling in the driver?

If you are using a 90 series driver, make sure that you select Advanced from the View menu at the top... There is a World of Warcraft profile in the driver control panel under Manage 3D settings -> Profiles. Just change the AA option to 8xS instead of Application Controlled and then select Supersampling further down the list. You can also disable the AF optimizations there. I suggest setting AF to 16x, forcing Trilinear, turn off optimizations, selecting "clamp" for LOD bias, and High Quality instead of just Quality. ...once you find the profile, all of this will make more sense.

 

[latino666]

I would get 35-50FPS with my old:

P4 2.4BGhz CPU
Radeon 9800 Pro
1GB RAM Corsair 4x256
Abit IC7-MAXIII
Win XP Pro

Machine running at 1024x768 max details no AA or AF.

Now I can't play it since I sold that PC. Laptop won't run the game.

Laptop specs:
2.4Ghz 533FSB CPU
256MB RAM
40GB HDD
Radeon Mobile 7500


Oh and I'm Dpdragon 60 mage/alliance on dragonblight.

 

[supaidaaman]

bah the 92.2 driver doesnt have the wow profile...its only got a few ....grr

 

[nitromullet]

I'm using the 92.91 driver as well, and it has a bunch of profiles (including one for WoW). Just highlight the top profile and hit 'W'. It will take you down to the apps that start with W, the profile is called World of Warcraft, not WoW.
Here's a screenshot from AT's article on the new CP, it's called "Program Settings", not Profiles. I'm not on my home machine, so I didn't have it in front of me.

http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/vid...eware91xx/manage3dsettings-program.png

If you really don't have them, I would re-install the driver because it is supposed to come with a lot of profiles.

 

[TrunKKs]

Athlon XP 3200 400mhz, Geforce 6800xt, 2gb ddr

I run wow at 1920x1200 with everything maxed out except AA which I have at 2x and get beetween 20-30fps in raids or in Ironforge, out in the world questing or farming it hovers around 45fps.

I have the parts to upgrade to a core2duo, just need a little bit more money to get a decent pci-e card.

*edit*
I also get my FPS to jump up to and hover just over 100fps if I look at the sky or go first person and look at the ground. If your frame rate is locked maybe try turning off v-sync.

 

[Hadsus]

As far as MMORPGs are concerned, WoW is about as rig friendly as any. If it don't run well on your rig, it probably ain't gonna run well with 90% of games out there.

 

[supaidaaman]

yeah i only have a few profiles. maybe its because i chose "to save profiles" on the old driver before i got this one....hrm...

 

[nullpointerus]

Originally posted by: TrunKKs
I also get my FPS to jump up to and hover just over 100fps if I look at the sky or go first person and look at the ground. If your frame rate is locked maybe try turning off v-sync.

Another idea is to enable triple buffering. You have to use a third party application to do it, but it can give you vsync without the performance penalties. To free up video memory for triple buffering, however, you may need to lower your AA settings a bit.

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2006/articles/DXtweaker/

 

[BenSkywalker]

PD@3.66, 1GB, 1800XT

2048x1536 x2 AA 16x HQ AF I tend to stick a bit over 60, peak a bit over a hundred. So people are aware, when I first installed the game on my rig I could never break 64.1FPS. I moved my main gaming machine from XP to Vista and in the process moved WoW over to my secondary machine- I was breaking tripple digit framerate on that with a AXP 2500, 640MB and R9800Pro. The 64 cap people are running into has nothing to do with VSync or tripple buffering, even running @160Hz refresh rate I could never clear 64.1FPS running the 1800XT under XP. My R9800Pro is still running XP and has no problem clearing that mark. I'm not sure what it is with the game, but it just caps itself on certain setups.

If I drop down to middle resolution- 1920x1440 I up it to 4x AA with the same performance, low res- 1600x1200 I can utilize 6x AA. Neither of them look as good as 20x15 w/2x though. The extra res and HQ AF help clear up most of the shimmering(although it is certainly still there).

Forgot to mention, Kilrog- Undead Mage.

 

[supaidaaman]

ive noticed that sometimes when i have windows media player, or im browsing a site that has flash animation my frame rate jumps to 100+, but there is a ton of choppyness. Its strange that with higher framerate the game would seem to be less smooth.

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: BenSkywalker

Forgot to mention, Kilrog- Undead Mage.

Welcome to Kilrog... What level is your mage? Name?

 

[BenSkywalker]

Level 33 as I type this, though I'm doing decently moving up quickly. Take a wild guess as to what my name is

What are you btw?

 

[Sonikku]

Performance in WoW is crazy. It doesn't take much to get playable frames in terms of hardware, but hot damn you better have the most l33t of the Elite in PC hardware to get a steady 60fps at all times.

Settings:

All settings maxed save for draw distance @ 50%.
Full Screen glow = Off
1280x800 @ 85htz

Old rig:
Sempron Socket A 2400+
1 gig of Corsair Ram
9600XT

Performance usualy in the 12fps range in cities. 4fps in Iron Forge at peak hours. 18fps in open range areas with few players.

Upgrade 1:
Athlon 64 Socket 754 3400+
1gig of Corsair ram
9600XT w/ 4 pixel pipelines
(CPU/mobo for $99 combo)

Performance usualy in the 40-60fps in cities. (Very random, possibly due to varying traffic) 30fps in Iron FOrge at peak hours. 40-70fps in open ranges with few players.

Upgrade 2:
Athlon 64 Socket 754 3400+
1gig of Corsair ram
X800XT AGP card w/16 pixel pipelines

Add 3fps to frames above. :brokenheart:

The X800XT knocked the socks off the 9600XT in every other title, but for WoW it hardly made any difference at all. All observations made under the same quality settings, even under the Sempron setup. (Performance was equally bad no matter what my settings were, bottlenecked by CPU = nothing to lose)

My observations on importance of hardware in WoW:

CPU>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>RAM>>>>>Video Card

Upgrade accordingly.

 

[ArchAngel777]

Depends... I have shelfed my L60 priest at the moment and have been working on my warrior who is currently an Orc L43. I also have a L34 Orc Shaman I have been working on the side... I am guessing you are BenSkywalker in the game... LOL, I have never seen that name before in /lfg or anything, else I would have spotted it immediately... But, I'll look you up sometime.

 

[Sonikku]

I game on a FW900 BTW.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v600/...005.jpg&refPage=100&imgAnch=imgAnch102

What I can't stand though is how Blizzard won't change the POV when you switch to widescreen.