Please, optimize the game.

#0 - March 5, 2009, 5:10 a.m.

Here's my computer specs:
Windows XP Pro SP3
AMD Athlon 3500+ OC'd to 2.5 GHz (300Mhz increase)
PQI Turbo Series PC 3200+ TCCD 2-2-2-5 4x512 running at CL3.
Asrock Dual Sata2
nVidia 9800 GT
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATAII 3.GBs
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Platnium

While this system seems modest. Especially to today's standards, I am however capable of running just about any game on the market short of the DX10 games since I'm not on Vista.

My benchmarks:
3DMark03: 30,504
3DMark05: 15,708

These are averages:
UT2k4: 1280x1024 4xaa maxed settings: 220fps
HL2: 1280x1024 6xaa maxed settings: 130fps
Q4: 1280x1024 8xaa maxed settings: 45fps
Doom3: 1280x1024 8xaa maxed settings: 60fps

Yet... I open WoW and go to raid with 25 other people and I can't seem to break 30fps in a raid. I typically sit around 15-20 and have all the settings turned down to minimum.

My computer may not be the latest and greatest computer on the market. But it sure holds it's own. It also runs faster and more efficient than most people in my raids because they're not computer techs who work on optimizing computers for gaming as a living. My computer runs better than most who have superior machines.

What ever you guys do in the future with this game, please optimize the code. It's really bloated and is a massive resource hog considering you guys are not doing the lighting effects and texturing which other games are doing. I would expect the performance which WoW does to my computer out of a game like CoD4 or Crisis where they are using newer shader techniques and lighting effects across models.

Reythur

#12 - March 5, 2009, 5:27 a.m.

Hey Omalina,

While I was going to move your thread to our Technical Support forums, I'd rather provide you with a bit of information prior to doing so.

I can say that my personal computer has similar "statistics" to yours, and I generally get about 40-50 fps, even in the most intensive of raids at maximum settings. Perhaps there may be something you could optimize on your end? Have you attempted to contact our Technical Support department to see if they can help you?

Additionally, if you are using a lot of third-party addons while raiding — especially ones that gather, and generate data (Damage meters, etc) — then you are likely to experience an issue where your FPS drops; this can be caused by a lack of memory (RAM). However, I'd rather not provide you with any recommendations on how to alleviate the issue as I've not been trained to provide Technical Support. ^_^

I'd recommend giving them a shout and seeing if they can help you out. =)

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