MMO's do not require good hardware?

[jlyons264]

Seriously, posts like this are why threads get cluttered with garbage. You have effectively said nothing. Also, one period tends to suffice when ending a sentence.

He gets 50-80 FPS in Deepholm with 8xMSAA; As I had said in my first post, there is nothing wrong with the hardware. It's called the World of Warcraft, not the World of Stormwind.

There is something wrong with the hardware... If mine can get 50+fps with 560's in stormwind, and he can only pull off 10-30 fps using the same settings there is something wrong... The 7970's are benching amazingly higher than dual 560m's. And that was with modded drivers... There is something wrong with the settings or something else...

And I put 3 periods on all my post, it is habit, so that really didn't add anything to the discussion about the settings except pointing it out...

If he wants to give up and blame the game is one thing... But I know it can be done with hardware that is not as new or good...

[troyguitar]

Seriously, posts like this are why threads get cluttered with garbage. You have effectively said nothing. Also, one period tends to suffice when ending a sentence.

He gets 50-80 FPS in Deepholm with 8xMSAA; As I had said in my first post, there is nothing wrong with the hardware. It's called the World of Warcraft, not the World of Stormwind.

It's true, but still very annoying. SW is probably the zone I'll frequent most, yet it has the worst performance apparently of damn near any zone in the game.

I guess I need to check out some other games and try to make a decision here. Apparently I was not wrong in that it will likely take a GTX 690 to pull 60 fps in SW, kind of makes you wonder how anyone plays the damn game :lol:

Do you think an i5-3570k at 4GHz with a 7950 or so would fare way better at these type of settings or just be like 45 fps instead of 35?

[jlyons264]

It's true, but still very annoying. SW is probably the zone I'll frequent most, yet it has the worst performance apparently of damn near any zone in the game.

I guess I need to check out some other games and try to make a decision here. Apparently I was not wrong in that it will likely take a GTX 690 to pull 60 fps in SW, kind of makes you wonder how anyone plays the damn game :lol:

Do you think an i5-3570k at 4GHz with a 7950 or so would fare way better at these type of settings or just be like 45 fps instead of 35?

You have a 7970, why would you go down to a 7950? Below is the scores for 3dmark Vantage. You have a powerful card. I don't know why you think you need to have a 690 to get 60 fps in stormwind. it is possible with 560m's. The 680m's aren't even out yet, the 690m's will be a long time from now.

24757 3DMarks - 7970m
17484 3DMarks - 560m sli

[s2odin]

Turn shadows off....
Profit

'Ultra' Shadows and Performance - Forums - World of Warcraft - Read that.

Just gonna quote myself here......

[jlyons264]

Just gonna quote myself here......

+1 rep nice find...

[troyguitar]

Just gonna quote myself here......

I tried that. Shadows Ultra -> High yields a 7-8 fps increase and High -> Low yields a further 3-4 fps increase. Not really game-changing but I appreciate the idea.

[masterchef341]

There is something wrong with the hardware... If mine can get 50+fps with 560's in stormwind, and he can only pull off 10-30 fps using the same settings

considering the settings he was using (which were not the same settings you are using), the performance difference makes sense.

[jlyons264]

considering the settings he was using (which were not the same settings you are using), the performance difference makes sense.

Here is a pic with everything maxxed out in stormwind. Look at the fps.

http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/2...1012180625.jpg

[troyguitar]

That does make me wonder if there isn't still something wrong. Still, I have no idea what else to try. I'm downloading a couple other games tonight to see how those go tomorrow, but beyond that I'm kind of out of ideas.

[masterchef341]

Here is a pic with everything maxxed out in stormwind. Look at the fps.

http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/2...1012180625.jpg

A) where are the people? that's the issue with stormwind. highly variable results. there's nothing wrong with troy's hardware. troy had like 20-30 others in view. PLUS he was running windowed mode and had a second monitor active. All of those things are significant.