Strange fps issue

[Kerpy]

Hey!

I have this very weird fps issue that is driving me crazy.

Sometimes when I go through portals to dungeons, enter cities or leave cities my fps will suddenly cap itself to like 30-40~ fps.This can then easily be solved by turning on OR off vsync and triple buffering. Then it will be a stable 100+ fps.

Today when I played AV for the first time my fps got capped to around 30-60 fps going rapidly up and down depending on the situation, didnt work by turning on and off vsync or disabling all addons, increasing memory etc. I've also seen the same symptoms when i'm near a massive amount of people in Ironforge or SW.. but I mean this is a 10 year old game, it should run fine on my rig.

I've also tried: Installing dx9, doing a clean WoW install again, switching the install folder from SSD to HDD and turning all graphics to lowest or highest, turning antivirus off etc.

Note: My computer runs retail wow and other games perfectly fine, this is not a hardware issue.

My rig:

Amd FX-8350 - 8C @ 4.0ghz with liquid cooling, no overheat issues.
GTX 770 2gb
16GB ram.
Benq xl2411t 144hz monitor.
Video settings: Windowed, Maximized, 120hz. Vsync on/off doesnt matter. Same issue


If anyone is having the same issue or know how to solve this please share. It's driving me crazy..

[Arx_1]

Your CPU has got weak Single Threaded performance compared to Intel CPUs.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

Therefore, your CPU bottlenecks the game in CPU heavy occasions which is why you experience these slow-downs and lag.

The only cure for what you are getting is further overclocking your CPU or buying a modern Intel CPU.

No matter how much you overclock however, your AMD CPU will never get close to Intel's Single Threaded performance. In WoW, Single Threaded poerformance is what matters the most when it comes to CPUs, so all your eight cores have no effect as WoW only uses one thread and one core.

[Kerpy]

It doesn't make any sense. If you look at the graph you will see it's got the same single-core power as a I7 990x from 2011. In 2011 with an i7, you could easily run vanilla wow without any of the issues that im describing.

[Arx_1]

An entry modern gaming CPU these days is the six-year old Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz which has got a STP score of 1,898 Pass marks at stock.

Your CPU has got a score of 1,503 PM at stock, which is equivalent to a First Generation Core Intel CPU from 2009.

Performance with such CPUs, while adequate for WoW Vanilla, will not be outstanding by any means and this fact will make FPS junkies lose their sanity.

(OMG WHY MY FPS DROPS BELOW 100)

[Kerpy]

Your CPU has got a score of 1,503 PM at stock, which is equivalent to a First Generation Core Intel CPU from 2009.

Yes, it's on the same level as an I7 990x from 2011. Vanilla WoW released in 2004. Are you saying computers couldn't run AV at 60 fps, in 2009 or even 2011?

FYI I looked up old posts about performance with systems during 2006-2007, pre BC.

The guy had a Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz and GTX 8800GTS and had stable 60fps during raid encounters.
That's a 916 PM cpu produced in 2006 pulling a pretty constant 60 fps. I can't see any valid reason a 1,503 PM cpu should lag like crazy (ie, dropping to 30 while capped at 60) in 2016 playing a game from 2004.

[Arx_1]

The guy whose post you read lied.

Switch off Vertical Sync. This is causing your FPS drop from 60 to 30.

[Kerpy]

As I wrote in my original post it doesn't matter if vsync is on or off when capped, it's still dropping.
Also I doubt he lied. E6600 2.4ghz was released in july 2006, almost two years after the initial wow release, it's very much plausible he could run it well. Nonetheless, a 2009/2011 processor could definitely run vanilla wow without any issues...