Need GPU upgrade help >.<

[Svpernova09]

But I need this thread >.<

And for the record all my accounts are eligable for scroll of resurrection ^.^ so these "trial" accounts are unnecessary and redundant, Tonight is Windows 7 upgrade, and clean out all unnecessaries, and tomorrow The World! (of Warcraft) We'll see what windows 7 does for my MB experience and if it fails miserably then the upgrading time comes

Before you go and do anything TOO drastic.

Here's what I run:
Quad 2.6ghz, 8 gig ram, nvidia 7600GS 512mb. My bottleneck is my GPU. I get 25-30 fps on the active window, 12 on the slaves (I lowered it to 12). I'm playable, Dalaran sucks, but I can get around.

So it could be a configuration issue.

[Drommon]

How do you get perfmon to show GPU usage?

Get GPUZ. Google it. Download it. Run it while multiboxing.

It is the GPU perf mon. A very good tool.

You may find this on your system in Dalaran while multiboxing ->

from perf mon-->

Ram usage 68-88%
CPU 80-100%

from gpuz-->

GPU 30-40%

These are the numbers I get. I 5 box on 2 monitors. I have a q9550 (quad core 2.83 ghz), 8gb ddr 800 ram, ati 4850x2. I have all resolutions at 1920x1200 for all 5 wow clients. Slaves have all video options at the minimum. Main is max video with max viewing distance with shadows set on minimum. I get 20-30 fps in dalaran while slaves are maxed to 15 fps. I also have a Intel xm-25 SSD dedicated to WoW using symlynked folders. I run windows vista ultimate 64 bit. I have found that on my system that the CPU is the bottleneck if I go higher graphic settings. WoW uses the CPU primarily for graphics is what I conclude from this. So if I were to upgrade anything, it would be motherboard+cpu.

[Mubox]

I don't think I said a computer will run 60 FPS in Dalaran.
I know some people get that in some areas of Dal.

But the particle density sucks there, and you frequently get 20-30 FPS, even with very top-end systems.

On 3.3 patch day Bonechewer instances went down (all of them) and I got ported into Dal, my effects are set to high except for texture filtering and shadows. There were several dozen (uncountable) number of people who got ported into Dal just like me. FPS was 59/60fps. i7-975, 1gb nV 260m GTX, 4 other clients were running at the time, they were ported into Shatt. Top end systems shouldn't struggle in Dal at all, though if all 5 of my toons ported into Dal i'd probably have noticed a more significant drop.

I play windowed mode, maximized to 1920x1200, 32bpp.

For the OP, I previously ran a core2 2ghz, 4gb ram, w/ and nV 8900m 512MB. A full AV would drop my FPS to 6fps (with all toons present, effects on all set to lowest, playing at 1024x768), I blame this entirely on the GPU as CPU use appeared the same. The 8900 series (and prior) were excellent for 'their time' but are 'fairly low-end' compared to what is currently available from nV/ATI (as usual for gfx tech).

You know what would really benefit all of these performance threads is if someone could update the wiki with a breakdown of all current graphics options (available from blizz UI, e.g. nothing specific to the console) and what each option depends on. For example, particle density is CPU heavy, whereas shadow detail is GPU heavy. Something like this may help people diagnose what they need to updgrade in their particular rig.. for example, if sliding particle density down doesn't really seem to help then it may not be a CPU issue, or as another example, if reducing model detail doesn't affect FPS but a reduction of texture detail drastically improves performance, it may be time to find a gfx card (and perhaps also a mobo/cpu) with a higher bus xfer rate, as this is something that depends on the bus bandwidth and clock rate of both the mobo/cpu and the gfx card moreso than the number crunching power of either the CPU or GPU.

Just a thought.

[talpax]

Been a while since I've logged into Azeroth, I blame it on the the lack of 5 shamans being able to burn through low level northrend instances but in reality its my system not being able to handle nothrend, v.v so my current system specs are:

CPU: Phenom 2.8 (forget the model >.<)
Ram: 8 Gigabytes of DDR2 800
GPU: Nvidia 8600 GTS SC
HD: 320 gig Seagate Sata

I assume its my GPU stopping me from 5 boxing, So I'm wondering whats a good route for upgrade to make this system 5box worthy? I was looking at maybe a 4890 or a 260, what does the community think? will this get my system up to par?

Stay away from the ati 4850, it has a lot of issues with wow.

Don't know about 4890 but google around to check...i did'nt so now i'm in trouble

My 2 cent