8800GT and WoW

billybob476 · March 13, 2008, 11:04:27 AM

Hey guys, I jsut got myself a swanky new eVGA GeForce 8800GT and stuck it in my machine. I craked up WoW, turned all the settings to the max...and get 30-60 fps.

Needless to say I'm a bit dissapointed. i was wondering if anyone had any ideas about how I could improve performance? From what I've read this game should run a solid 60 fps and beyond on this card.

System specs:

Pentium D 3.00Ghz
Nvidia GeForce 8800GT
2 GB DDR2 RAM
Nvidia driver version 6.14.11.6921 dated 12/5/2007 (dowloaded from nvidia website last night)

Rico · March 13, 2008, 11:38:06 AM

I believe others things will influence how well the card runs. Motherboard for one. Video cards don't give the same performance on different machines with different specs. Even though they do the biggest part of the processing for video. What card did you used to run and what FPS were you at? Also, what type of power supply do you use?

billybob476 · March 13, 2008, 12:03:45 PM

I was running a 6800 before. Frames were the same with lower graphics settings at the same resolution. However as a test I lowered all the settings to minimum (except the display rez) and only got up to about 60-65 fps.

The machine is a Dell XPS 600 (intel mobo) 650 watt PSU etc. The only limiting this I see is CPU., which is only a Pentium D. However I opened up Star Trek:Legacy and craked all the settings to the max and the game flew.

It seems after some googling that 8800GTs have had some issues with WoW since patch 2.3.

Rico · March 13, 2008, 12:07:05 PM

The chipset on your motherboard can influence things as well. If you look at most of the systems that get that card put in them they are pretty top end, dual or quad core, lots of memory, etc. All of those things help.

KingIsaacLinksr · March 13, 2008, 02:30:21 PM

Wow has been giving me the same problem though with a 7600 GE go force. I can no longer crank the settings and continually have to change the dang game's video settings in order for the graphics to not crash my system.

Blackride · March 13, 2008, 03:38:07 PM

Here is what I have and I can easily get over 60fps on WOW. It all has to do with the quality of the parts combined as Rico as alluding to.
I dump a lot of money into the fastest drives and memory as possible. I also buy N-1 for my video card.

8800 GTS 640 mb EVGA
AMD 64 X2 5200
2.00 GB RAM (Corsair Twin2X2048-6400C4) http://www.pcstats.com/artvnl.cfm?articleID=1960
Abit MOBO 570 Ultra
2 Raptor 10k RPM drives ( Raid 0 )

Blackride · March 13, 2008, 03:39:23 PM

I also forgot to say that if you want performance from you machine I would also steer you away from Vista unless you are experienced with tweaking it. Just my humble opinion....

Rico · March 13, 2008, 03:42:34 PM

Good points Blackride. I have a feeling Billy that your older processor is really hindering your performance.

billybob476 · March 17, 2008, 12:31:25 PM

Yeah that Pentium D was great 2 years ago. True WoW is definitely a processor intensive game. Anyways I've tweaked the settings so I get a fairly solid 40-60 fps with better graphics then I had before. However, after some googling it appears that people with 8800GT's got hit hard with patch 2.3, A lot of people experienced drops in frame rate. Maybe with 2.4 coming it'll be tweaked a bit more.

KingIsaacLinksr · March 17, 2008, 02:38:12 PM

Quote from: billybob476 on March 17, 2008, 12:31:25 PM
Yeah that Pentium D was great 2 years ago. True WoW is definitely a processor intensive game. Anyways I've tweaked the settings so I get a fairly solid 40-60 fps with better graphics then I had before. However, after some googling it appears that people with 8800GT's got hit hard with patch 2.3, A lot of people experienced drops in frame rate. Maybe with 2.4 coming it'll be tweaked a bit more.

What I've learned about Blizzard and Wow is never depend on the next patch to fix the game's problems. (I could go on about this, but this is Treksf.com, not Wow.com). Idk if Blizzard is actively trying to fix these problems that they are aware of or not. To me, it doesn't seem like it. Also, the 8800 series was not the only one to get hard. My game really started to act odd when 2.3 came out as well and though it could easily be blamed on the current problems of my system, there are other computers and graphic cards that are having the same problems. I think a programmer fell asleep when he made 2.3 in some cases. Although 2.3 is one of the more celebrated patches in 2.0-2.3.3's series, 2.4 is probably going to become the most hated patch.

Whether they fix these problems is up to them. History shows: "No".

King