Standard FPS

[xDarkDrifterx]

What is everyone seeing as normal in this department? I'm wanting to compare mine once I log back on tonight after some cleaning up of my pc.

Thanks!

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[Stigg]

WoW runs at exactly 60 fps for me.

[Blissed]

75fps for me in most areas dropping to mid 50's in heavy areas.

That's with all options maxxed and at 1280x1024 resolution with 4xAA. My spec is a Core Duo 6420, a 8800GTS 320Mb and 2Gb of RAM and that's running with Vista.

[det]

Pretty steady 60 fps after a motherboard/processor/graphic card replacement recently in 1680 x 1050.

Funnily it seems to drop to something like exactly 30 fps in Shattrath...makes me doubt Titan panel at times that it shows just those exact values.

[Stigg]

Pretty steady 60 fps after a motherboard/processor/graphic card replacement recently in 1680 x 1050.

Funnily it seems to drop to something like exactly 30 fps in Shattrath...makes me doubt Titan panel at times that it shows just those exact values.

Well, the upper limit depends on the Hz your monitor is running at. but of course, we all know you got a billion dollar widescreen monitor you stole from NASA headquarters.

[xDarkDrifterx]

Right on - then I'm okay(I thought roughly 60 fps was standard) - I'm usually in the mid 50's or so . . . I ask because last night I was in Shatt and my virus software re-started (I set it to turn off realtime virus / spyware scanning while playing) and I went to like 10 fps . . . it was horrible. lol

Of course I just turned it back off after that

Anyways, thanks for the replies, guess I'm about where I should be then.

[det]

Well, the upper limit depends on the Hz your monitor is running at. ...

Ah, thanks for that info..and as for the million dollar monitor...at what Hz do you typically run a TFT monitor (well..what do I adjust it to in the windows monitor settings?)

[Kalos]

Ah, thanks for that info..and as for the million dollar monitor...at what Hz do you typically run a TFT monitor (well..what do I adjust it to in the windows monitor settings?)
Doesn't matter. That feature isn't actually anything to do with the framerate at all. You can set the frame refresh rate to 60, but it doesn't control the FPS, might drop to 10, might bounce up to be 110 at some point. Sounds like they're linked but they aren't. As a general rule leave it as it is, messing around could blow your monitor if it is a CRT.

I could make an hour long essay on why, but let's skip to the end. Only CRTs actually use this number. If you have a flatscreen, it's a software toy-button that doesn't act or change anything, the number is there because the graphics card couldn't understand going to a refresh rate of zero, and thus instead of properly reprogramming it out of the CRT era, they rigged the number. You can read up on it if you wish, but the end of the line is: Unless you have a CRT, you can set that little number to whatever the heck you want, it won't change anything due to the different way the image is generated on screen compared to a CRT monitor. Just leave it at 60.

[Beruen]

I ask because last night I was in Shatt and my virus software re-started (I set it to turn off realtime virus / spyware scanning while playing) and I went to like 10 fps . . . it was horrible. lol

Wow is very touchy about having other programs running at the same time, especially if you're using a lot of addons. I used to bottom out at about 7 FPS if I made the mistake of alt-tabbing over to Firefox and then coming back to wow, leaving a heavily animated web page up. Switching from Cosmos to Ace/Fubar helped quite a bit, but I still have to be aware of what else I've got running when playing WoW.

[poopsmcgee]

amd sempron 3000
1GB pc3200 (2x512)
nvidia 7600gt

i stay at about 59.x pretty much all the time except in shatt. there i drop to the 30's. i have everything turned up on max except AA. i taketh wow isn't too cpu dependent with the cpu i have and wow performing as well as it does. also i run about 7 or so mods including bongos, fishing buddy, extended quest, monkey quest, gatherer, onebag and a few others i can't think of atm.

[Fursphere]

P4 "hyper threading" 3ghz
2gb ram (800mhz, 4x512)
Geforce 6800 GT

I run at 1600x1200, 1xAA, and I get like 30fps most of the time, but drops to 20fps at times. Everything is maxed, detail wise.

[Altaris]

/cry
I run everything an minimal at have an average of 15fps. My machine is a couple years old, but I've got about 40gig free memory and 1.5g ram.

[ChaosSaber]

First of all, I use a laptop.
Intel Centrino 1.6GHz (533MHz FSB)
ATI Mibility Radeon X300 (128MB PCI-Express)
1GB 266MHz DDR2 SDRAM

At 1440x900, with most settings at high, some at medium I average around 50 FPS. This drops to below 30 in crowded cities but sits around 60 in 5-man instances.
The X300 has some problems with depth-sorting surfaces that have both tecture transparency, and model transparency. This means that things like Ghost Wolf form look like crap, but I can live with it.

[rottentomato]

usually with nothing running backgrounded i get 30-70 fps...

i tested to see if i could play in major cities with everything i could possible run running...

napster downloading a cd, itunes downloading a cd, photoshop running a filter on a 2500x2500 image to create bubbles which takes around a minute...bryce 3d rendering a image i made, cakewalk pro audio converting a 9 channel audio track into a mp3, and wow...

in org i was getting 7fps, still able to run smoothly... outside of org i got around 15fps...not bad for everything i had running