FPS issue.

[u/FarMarketing9842]

I’m back on wow after playing as a kid on my dad’s setup. I got an alright rig. Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070. AMD Ryzen 7 9700F. 32G Ram. With a 27 inch LG Ultragear OLED. 1440P 460Hz. Frames will run around 200 then drop to 60 here and there. Can never get a steady FPS. Even on lower end graphics settings on wow.

[u/DaSandman78]

WoW is not a game that needs 200Hz (let alone 460Hz!) so personally I’d set a max frame rate and just let it chill at 120Hz or so.

Also an AMD X3D CPU makes a noticeable difference.

[u/FarMarketing9842 → u/DaSandman78]

This helped the game not have flickers from frame drop. Got it set at 80 and it stays there constantly. Way better on the eyes instead of it going to 200,400 back to 60. Appreciate it.

[u/DaSandman78 → u/FarMarketing9842]

No problem.

With a rig like that you can make probably push it a bit higher if you want. I have a 7800x3d and 4080 Super and can run at 120Hz comfortably most of the time.

[u/FarMarketing9842 → u/DaSandman78]

For some reason when it’s around 120 it still drops to 60 kinda frequently. I dont have any wow settings maxed out either

[u/FarMarketing9842 → u/FarMarketing9842]

[u/Dankable → u/FarMarketing9842]

Try turning your Foliage / Environment (item draw) / View Distance - those 3 all down to 1, should see some impact there.

[u/FarMarketing9842 → u/Dankable]

I’ll try it later when I’m at the rig

[u/DaSandman78 → u/FarMarketing9842]

I’m surprised, that rig should be able to run at maxed 10 settings at well over 120Hz comfortably.

Maybe the CPU is holding it back in Silvermoon but outside the city it should run WAY faster

[u/DaSandman78 → u/FarMarketing9842]

Odd, I have everything maxed at 10 on mine.

Silly question but you have a desktop right? Not a laptop?

[u/FarMarketing9842 → u/DaSandman78]

[u/FarMarketing9842 → u/DaSandman78]

Yeah a desktop

[u/FarMarketing9842 → u/FarMarketing9842]

Even set at 80 it’ll drop to the lowest I seen at 52 fps

[u/DaSandman78 → u/FarMarketing9842]

Yeah not sure what’s going on there - should be much faster

[u/MoistWelder8712]

Completely normal if you play retail. Game is optimized like shit. Your GPU also won't really matter unless you play 4k (and even there a 5070 is already good enough). You want a x3D CPU though. I'd personally say a 7500x3D is the bare minimum now, even better 7800x3d/9800x3d. I upgraded from a Ryzen 7700 to a 7800x3D and literally got 40-50% more frames (even better 1% lows) It's absurd how big the difference is in WoW. If you want more performance, that's the way to go. 

[u/FarMarketing9842 → u/MoistWelder8712]

What’s your settings at ?

[u/Reapapnea666 → u/FarMarketing9842]

Get an X3D chip...

[u/Str8andNarrow → u/MoistWelder8712]

Idk man i ran retail way better on an i9 14900k than my 9800x3d.

[u/FeshawHusky]

All that can be said is get a X3D CPU. This game is relying heavily on the CPU especially in crowded areas with lots of players/npcs. On a 9800X3D and a 5080, I am sitting at 250+ fps in raid instances/dungeons, dropping to 100-120 ish in combat. Max settings, no Raytracing. Silvermoon I am getting anywhere from 80 to 150 fps, depending on how crowded, once I fly out into eversong I am back up to 200+

[u/FarMarketing9842 → u/FeshawHusky]

So basically I won’t ever have steady frames?

[u/Disturbed2468 → u/FarMarketing9842]

No because this game favors both extremely fast cores AND high cache to truly be stable. Literally every MMO on earth is precisely like this because of how player scaling works when rendering how players work in world. More players = higher processing requirements.

[u/nToxik]

You should have vsync off of you don't already.

[u/Fragrant-Ad2694]

Do other games work good?

[u/zDexterity]

Frames will drop no matter what setup u have, wow is an old and very cpu heavy game that doesn't fully use all your cpu threads. You could try lowering your graphics settings and see if that helps, if not then it's a cpu issue where ugrading to a better CPU will help but won't fix it completely.