What’s killing your WoW FPS? Part 3: Settings

[@mysticalos]

As always, keep posting feedback and results and whether or not anything helped or if you're still struggling even after all 3 videos. If you are still struggling list your hardware details like amount of ram, cpu, gpu, heck even windows version. Other notes, pre edit video was 1 hour 10 minutes long. I cut out section on frame pacing and CASC and decided to again put em in a diff video in couple days probably. Since both are less about low fps and more about stutter, judder, and how improving inconsistent framerates that aren't low can still make the game feel better.

[@flynn6531]

Might be unrelated, but I've noticed when using Nvidia sharpening filter, or the resample sharpness ingame, there is a weird brightness flicker when moving, if you spam W or mouse click it flickers correspondingly with your input. Any ideas? Unsure if its my monitor or an engine issue

[@tuskgarcia9851]

Thank for the details stuff. I have zero knowledge but this was interesting conversation about it. Great video!

[@mysticalos]

@@flynn6531 I suspect it's one of those things that if nvidia or amd are already hooking and enhancing things, it creates conflict with built in options.

[@Zoi888]

@@mysticalos ty for explaining some of the items, perhaps you could do a nvidia/amd control panel settings guide too with explanation of the settings too??

[@leogab0]

I have an i7-13700k with 32 7200mhz ram and an RTX 4070 Ti Super, and in that damn city my fps drop to 50 - 48, incredible. INCREDIBLE

[@ElJefeMeech]

Already one of my favorite multiverse Asmongolds. Appreciate the video, had some stuff opposite of your suggestions and I gained a fair few frames from it. Thank you.

[@PyromancerRift]

Asmongold before he went bald.

[@MostlyFish21]

Lol multiverse Asmon 😅 xD

[@kerkertrandov459]

Cant wait for part 44

[@Half_Finis]

part 1 9min part 2 7min part 3 50min, someone do the math how long would episode 44 be

[@mysticalos]

probably won’t be anymore parts. i plan a separate video more on reducing loading screens and reducing stutter and frame pacing issues. but that’s a bit separate from low fps. so not part 4 :)

[@manuakasam]

Understanding settings is the first step to setting them right. Less than 0.01% of people understand most of those settings. Your videos are amazing. Thank you for your insight!

[@Yoriichi24]

unfortunately 99% of videos regarding optimizing graphics settings on games are mostly misinformation, channels like this where they actually understand what settings actually do in the game engine are very rare

[@Spanakopitaa]

hottest WoW content creator at the moment, keep these videos up mate, they help A TON

[@regsegrregerge5485]

Hey dude, genuinely appreciate you taking the time making this video. Super frustrating to play on a new high-end (for wow) pc and getting horrible fps-lag. Glad I came across your videos, very helpful

[@drunkenmonkey5998]

GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!!! Some time ago i got serious fps drops inside Raids and even major cities. thats where i watched quite a few videos about what to do and how to increase fps. one of the tips were renderscale to 91% and shadow quality to low. After seeing your video and explaining what renderscale does (and what the bug can be) AND the fact that low shadows always bug; i changed those 2 options and went from 110fps (outdoor, non crowded area) to a freakin' 340fps! In fact i had both bugs active for the entire time. renderscale lower than 100% nearly halfed my fps. the other fps drops i just got from low shadow quality. To mention: i get fps increase when i set renderscale to 133%. now thats odd but hey i take it xD thank you mate, you saved my WoW experience =)

[@TheTama8]

Dude, this was soooooooooooo helpful! Been wondering and trying different things with settings for years without really knowing what they're about. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into making this information available to us!

[@TheTama8]

Also, instant sub after watching a video from you for the first time (think it was the loading screens one).

[@MrDoctorDave]

21:35 ""This is a hentai expansion. How many damn tentacles are trying to go up your asshole in dungeons." Earned a sub

[@bigfruitty7]

Huge help with graphic settings, thanks for the in depth explanations.

[@titankuoftw]

Thank you. You saved me from the render scale bug. Thank you!

[@fizzle_exe]

incredibly helpful and easy to grasp information, i understand this spaghetti coded game a little bit more now thanks to you lol

[@brian-wood]

Wasn't sure what I was expecting, since there are millions of videos like this. But great work going into more depth on things!

[@mysticalos]

Try to be more thorough, and cover bugs many don't talk about or know about.

[@Scarnage86]

Hi nice video, i play wow for 20 years and i'm the "tech guy" of my guild and friend and even other guild or old player. You make an incredibile work about wow performance, and almost all the thing are correct, i wanna add my feedback, maybe can help more the ppl that follow u and that play wow. Sry if i type wrong i'm italian, i try my best to be understandable I) about the setting under the graphic quality options, u forgot to tell some things: 1) it's suggested to use the raid/battleground option enabled and make a specific setting for instanced content, this way player can enjoy a good visual while questing/world and high fps in raid 2) maybe a lot of ppl don't know that the view distance slider it's always ingored and settled as 1 in raid/instance/bg by the game when needed (like for some bossfight) 3) cmaa2 can give problem at ppl that use obs or recording solution, in that case they should use cmaa standard II) about addons 1) wow hate numbers, that's the most accurate explanation i can make, most of the fps lose using elvui, nameplates, or anyother addons can be improved or avoided if we remove the numebers on screen, for exemple on nameplate, raid frame party frame etc etc use % for hp intead of valor it's a super improving for fps, specialy in nameplates but even for raid frame. U tell me that u look at the exact valor of mob hp in a 10+ pull in m+???? i don't think so , just use % everywhere is possible. Use exact value only for player and target frame 2) as u already explain in addons setting video, try to force every addons refresh at not less then 1 second, i use 3 sec for details, 0.5 for elvui and plater, 1 for everything else, 3) at this day mandatory addons like mythic raid tools cause and extreme loss in fps maybe just to call healer or defensive cd.... if possibile try avoid using it, same things for the raid wa, if u don't raid mythic DBM or Bigwings is just enaugh 4) pls don't let useless addons active while raiding, if possible disable everthing is not needed III) about pc setting 1)run latest driver, latest update, but no beta or preview. Be smart, don't rush! 2) if u have 16gb of ram, congratulation is not enaught!, or maybe yes.... i will be short here, with 16gb of ram to avoid lagging low fps, just playwow and have discord opened. With other things like webpages other program, it's sure a fps loss or lag increase 3) for system with low gpu power, but even for everyone have some gpu problem, most application like discord, browser, bnet launcher should be setting with hardware accelartion off, be aware that disabling hardware accelarion improve gpu performance but *can* add cpu load and for browser it disabled 4k videostreaming, use if low end or old GPU 4)wow should be installed on an ssd, if not there are command to improve performance, /console worldPreloadNonCritical 0 this command can be reverted with 1 instead of 0 IV) about launcher and the famous "initialazing update" 1) do not play while game is downloading and is playable in orange, yellow green.... just wait pls.... 2) the infamous never starting update situation.... this is tricky, it's not a U problem, it's not a blizzard problem, It's an IP queue problem..... so to let the download start the solution is preatty simple but stupid, USE A FREE VPN just to download. remember to not do anything else then download with a vpn, to avoid security lock by blizzard

[@dyyylllaannn]

This guy actually works on DBM!

[@mysticalos]

Good stuff there, I want to add that i actually took section out about raid and BG settings cause I discovered an annoying bug with it that I'm gonna bring up to blizzard first where it will fail to activate or get stuck being activated. it has some snapshotting issues that they should address with it

[@annamalah]

I am here because yes, I am one of the noob guildm8 that the "tech guy" helped a lot of time! Including explaining me most of the things in this video! xD

[@Waevform]

Wow can you make videos too!?

[@RichardHarlos]

Just finished the video and learned a LOT! I adjusted several setting that I thought I understood but that I didn't. Thanks!

[@koskettaja609]

really great videos, its great to see someone actually go through the settings with some knowledge instead of a clickbait video of quickly someone saying whats great for his system and you should copy this with your 970gfx

[@aryunaYT]

i was not going to watch it because i saw the 50 minutes but i ended up changing my settings along with your explanations and i actually got a base 20 FPS increase which is so cool! i have no idea about hardware and how the settings impact the game (or apparently don't!) so this was really helpful!!

[@diobrndox]

Essentialgold doing gods work! thanks for this much needed video series

[@ek1582]

Dude, you rock. I couldn't believe that my 5700x3D + 3060ti is only capable of 30-100fps in raids, now it all makes sense

[@SleepyInvaderZ]

Dude your such a lifesaver. Just build a brand new setup and retail was bombing my frames down to like 85-95. With these I get 150+ I’m subbed now! Great work man I loved all the explanations too!

[@VideosForHumans]

This was great for me. Decided to start playing a little WoW in the living room which has an older PC hooked up to a 4k TV and this video helped me find a good sweet spot between visuals and 60fps. TY.

[@alexjay8257]

Awesome video dude. most granular explanation of the settings in wow I've ever seen. I bet even Digital Foundry couldn't even find some of the stuff you've found.

[@dsyy90210]

i've been needing a video like this for a while

[@Jakezor]

Thanks for the background info about how the settings interact with the game engine and what you see.

[@dsyy90210]

i appreciated how in-depth you got into each setting. it's actually what i was looking for. otherwise how can you know what settings to manipulate to actually leverage them for performance

[@Jjab0018]

Dude that was actually awesome! Thanks very much!

[@philosofrenzy]

Excellent video. I watched the whole thing (in all its "nerdy detail") and found it very informative. Thank you.

[@mysticalos]

Did it help you resolve any issues?

[@jassimabdullah8873]

Thank you so much! I had issues with knowing what most of the settings do and this video was very helpful in figuring that out.

[@LoFiGamerGurl]

I will need to finish watching this video later but this is SUPER helpful! thank you! Really good details!

[@timg9397]

Lots of great information! I can come back to this video in the future if I need to be reminded of what something does.

[@OfHellsDesigngaming]

Glad I watched the video, I would not have know about the render scale hardware bug. I had been using it forever and recently upgraded CPU and GPU over the past couple years. Setting it back to 100% gave me a decent chunk of fps back!

[@DaSilencero]

I watched the whole video and my mind is blown. Thank you for the work!

[@bakiaytac5022]

great video dude! very detailed not like the others Thanks a lot

[@donkst31288]

Appreciate the video man. Watched the whole thing. Gonna try out a bunch of different stuff and see if it helps!

[@mysticalos]

make sure you also check videos on weak auras and addons if you haven't.

[@naasfu]

Everyone else had recommended to reduce render scale for performance, and it's only after your video that I learned that not setting this to 100% was costing me 15-20 FPS on my potato. Thanks!

[@mysticalos]

glad that helped you out

[@dexzero]

try using liquid details on fair, and disabling any kind of 3d models on screen, then try FSR and render resolution again.

[@gmmonti215]

Thank you so much for this video. Had to change a few things based on my pc specs but it definitely boosted my fps by 30+. Hell yeah!

[@dovahpie7168]

Very in depth and informative! Thank you :)

[@Akeruyri]

On the topic of CPUs, single core performance being king what CPU would you recommend. Benchmarks for the new Intel Ultra CPUs was just released but the extra cache from the X3D Ryzen chips helps. What do you speculate would be the better move?

[@schmidth]

5800X3D and 5700X3D are extremely good and pretty cheap, they are an especially good buy if you're already on the AM4 platform. I went from 3600x to 5800X3D and pretty much doubled my fps in cities, raids etc.

[@gabber_]

anything with 3D cache will demolish this game. AMD X3D cpu, whatever you can afford will help immensely. even a 7600X was a huge upgrade for me.

[@AlexEvans12]

@@schmidth is 5600x ok would you recommend upgrade?

[@dexzero]

anything with 3D cache, it makes a massive difference

[@Ezilii]

It was super helpful. Thank you so much for this series.

[@Carolina01695]

Great video, helped me understand what these options do, helped me alot.

[@moxsonAU]

i watched it all, thank you very much! keep up the great work

[@Cloax]

Mystic i just want to start by saying THANK YOU so very much for this descriptive amazing video sir, I've been playing since 04' and i know I'm not the smartest when it comes to diagnosing things and PC software but i do my research! i was able to toggle and go through soo many of these options you provided and even doing an compare of some because of having a 6700XT - amd5x3600 i know some critical things wouldn't be able to be turned on. BUT WoW :p i was able to grab sooo many extra frames now, than from before game looks and feels like WoW again so thank you soo very much. I have already subbed, but man i cant wait for more content! take care hopefully cya out in the wonder world of Azeroth!

[@mysticalos]

Glad that helped you out.

[@zcarniel2884]

I love your content, since I saw you talking about DBM development, keep it up!!!

[@sarchizm]

Holy Carps! I reinstalled the game by deleting DATA file, and adjusted my Resolution and render scale and I am at 120-200 fps, was like 60. Thank you!

[@wowb3]

Watched all - really good videos. Thanks!

[@dark9nine]

Interesting! loved it. Learned a lot. Subbed.

[@drey01]

The CPUs for WoW are Ryzen in the x3D line. for example Ryzen 7 5800x3D or 7800x3D, they are best for WoW because of the large L3 Cache of 96mb where most CPUs have only 32mb. I just upgrade from a 3800xt to a 5800x3D and my FPS shot up over 200%. I get up to 300fps in some areas, well over 100fps in raids. Great video btw!

[@darkwing7780]

thank you so much for sharing these!

[@felipeneli]

Thank you Myst! Thanks from Brasil!

[@bladekilla]

Thnak you very much for this, this was very helpful!

[@deckverse]

Great guide! I just wanted to add a note about performance drops at different render scales, especially below the native (100%) level. This happens because of screen reconstruction technologies like AMD FidelityFX then kicking in. In GPU-bound situations, lowering the resolution scale might provide more render headroom, but using FSR at the same time can significantly reduce bandwidth at higher resolutions. To address this, consider alternatives to FidelityFX (somewhere at the bottom of the settings list). Also, for better efficiency, please switch from CMAA2 to CMAA1, as CMAA1 is much more resource-friendly without any noticeable visual downgrade.

[@mysticalos]

no there is a genuine conflict/bug there where fsr is not compatible with certain drivers. likely because it’s conflicting with driver based solutions that are already running. fsrs. reconstruction is not more demanding than native higher resolutions for sure. like a user def shouldn’t drip half their frames rendering a lower resolution then reconstructing back up with fsr. otherwise that’s defeat purpose of fsr entirely. unless they were just setting it to 99 or something silly then saying gpu to reconstruct 1% like some content creators were recommmending but anything sane line 80% or lower should only be huge gains. also cmaa1 doesn’t work well with fsr or msaa. it also doesn’t work as well on apple silicon. it produces better results in any of these cases. and the cost difference is pretty insignificant. but yes someone excessively gpu bound could probably turn cmaa off or try 1.

[@DaOneAndOnlyVitamine]

Thanks so much

[@Jedithtv]

watched the whole thing. Keep it up!

[@Skunktruck]

Fantastic information. Thank you!

[@xray1337]

Very good video, thanks!

[@TheHalbhas]

great video rly tnx so much and very much appreciated keep going to make theese content all wow players will need them cause everyone got performance issue with high end pc.

[@shinigami-riuk]

best video about cpu & gpu setting tweak in wow

[@Karmanation]

Great video, watched the whole thing and learned a lot! Any chance you could do this series or make a video specifically for classic?

[@mysticalos]

classic pretty much has same engine and settings minus stuff they purposely don't allow there.

[@jojosummer549]

Thank you so much, your videos have been extremely helpful in assisting my aging computer until I can get a new one : )

[@PontusKoontz]

very nice video, hope for a updated one if things change!

[@mysticalos]

Yeah if anything meaningful changes like some bug fixes or changes to engine to make it better, I'll be sure to test em and give updates.

[@DoomBringerTGC]

For me, on Windows, the Graphics API menu does have a Direct X 11 option, along with 12.

[@mysticalos]

Yeah turns out it's not fully deprecated on windows, yet.

[@heroicxidiot]

When it comes to my personal settings, I use this: Shadow Quality-Good Liquid Detail-Fair Particle Density- Ultra(not required, high is fine) SSAO-Good Compute Effects- Good Outline Mode- High Texture Resolution-High(Required) Spell Density-Essential/Some Projected Textures- Enabled. For me, RT doesn't drop my performance as noticeably so the minimum needed for RT, if you want it, must be set at Good. Liquid Detail is high enough to where it's not using the crappy water textures. Particle density is for Mechanics that I need to see so I maximize it to ensure I see it. SSAO is good enough to where the visual fidelity is good. Setting Depth Effects lower will send sunshafts straight through everything and kind of ruins the immersion but if you don't care, leave it off. View Distance should be between 5-7 for load times. If your load times are bad, lower it to 5.

[@branwellmcclory3459]

For you. Speeds up load times by not waiting for things to preload before exiting the load screen. /console worldPreloadNonCritical 0

[@julienraillard3567]

awesome video thanks a lot for those explains

[@ravenfan9252]

Nice video dude, It really helped me out as well as the others. Commenting to help the algo!

[@Zennenen]

Great video. I watched it all in hopes of improve my FPS on Queen Ansurek where I drop to 20 fps in p2 specially. Unfortunately it didn't help me, but it did help me understand a lot of the options in-game so for that I thank you massively! Do you maybe have some tips on Nvidia control panel settings I could play with to potentially help?

[@mysticalos]

not off hand as I don't have access to PC to do much testing there and last PC I did have actually had AMD gpu. I haven't used a nvidia one since 1080 was brand new technology ha

[@mattiupavon]

great video, thanks a lot :) just a question... can you explain if is better to enable or disable triple buffering?

[@mysticalos]

mostly preference. lower input lag with off but better frame pacing with on.

[@mattiupavon]

@@mysticalos thanks again =)

[@SmoochieMcgoo]

When talking about graphics and explaining what different graphics settings are doing, live on your screen, it may help some of us to know exactly what your hardware is so we can compare ours to yours, to gauge whether or not we will gain the same or a similar benefit. I say this, but also realize you have stated you are on a Mac. I am pretty sure the vast majority of us don't play on Macs and have no clue what Mac-specific information may be pertinent to non-Mac users. My suggestion? When doing videos like these, have a video description that mentions your exact hardware config, and if still using a Mac, perhaps put in your best guesstimate of what Intel/AMD chip is equivalent and guesstimate of what Intel/AMD/Nvidia GPU is equivalent to your Mac stats. Subbed. Good work. Yes, I learned a few things.

[@mysticalos]

all information shared is pertinent to ALL unless i specifically mention it's mac only (like vsync)

[@szymon.kucharski]

great work man! I appreciate it :)

[@ajewell8918]

Thank you for breaking that down

[@coolkumla]

great video. turning off the compute effects really improved my fps (at least in dornogal i havent been anywhere else yet)

[@quickzada]

I can't for the life of me just trust what someone tells me to do regarding graphics settings on the internet without actually searching what the function itself does, but since i'm a lazy fucker I always tend to not change anything because I cbf to look it up Having a good explanation and a direction to what option to use or not use its goated, thanks for the video

[@rebjorn79]

Had my render scale on 98. Sure enough, I set it to 100, and gained a ton of FPS!! Thanks!

[@kyleholbrook1536]

@mysticalos do you think running wow on Linux would help "bandaid" fix CPU bound bottlenecks and the render scale bug since it's being run with vulkan? I'm thinking it would handle what little multi thread loads wow has (if any) a bit better?

[@mysticalos]

I don't know, you'd probably get other performance hits. for example I can run wow in crossover (which uses wine translation layers too like linux) and performance way worse than native app. I do that with diablo 4 cause i HAVE to on macOS, but for wow i have a native app. going through anything out of box has a performance hit in itself. Another commenters said render scale performance bug happens if liquid is set higher than fair. I haven't confirmed this yet but maybe you can make sure water is fair THEN lower render scale without it tanking performance and get those sweet fps boosts?

[@kyleholbrook1536]

@@mysticalos I'm going to try it when I get home. On windows I'll set water detail to fair and then adjust render scale and see how it acts. I will install Linux to see how my milage varies. It feels like protonge let's Linux handle some games better than Windows lol.

[@summer_hater68]

very informative video, i have a "decent" setup that allows me to stay at 100~160 fps in 80% of times, but i still suffer a lot in raid and main cities like dornogal, my fps just goes down to 30 if not less in both situations, it doesnt matter if i put everything to low or disabled or keep everything in ultra, dunno if its either my cpu or gpu pushing me behind or the game itself doesnt want me to have fun lmao. my setup: Ryzen 5 5600; Rx 6900 xt 32gb 3000mhz nvme ssd

[@mysticalos]

yeah that’s just nature of being cpu bound near crowds. best you can do there is reduce mods or turn off flourishes in mod settings like player/enemy models in unit frames

[@dimitrisbenas4922]

Could you please let us know how to get the command window for the CPU/GPU bound check? You are mentioning these on 3:42 of this video. Many thanks for the video!

[@mysticalos]

tilde key by default after enabling console which you do via /console enable

[@Andrew-qq8fb]

You are doing God's work, sir!

[@_act]

Do you have any tips on how to check whether it is the CPU that is bottlenecking performance? Is it just literally looking at CPU % utalization during raid or is there a better method? I ask as my framerate in open world content is over 100, but then in the Dornogal "chill area", the FPS drops to mid 40s, and in raids it can go as low as the low 30s.

[@supergaga1712]

Exactly the same, and I have a pretty good fucking PC

[@kerkertrandov459]

If u dont have 7800x3d ure cpu bound, because this game sucks. And if u do have it, then its not like u can get a better cpu anyway, so u have nothing to worry about really.

[@russmanYT]

wow is just old. It benefits from a ton of L3 cache and single core speed...honestly the only cpu that can really push wow is the 7800x3d and good luck finding one that isn't jacked up in price by scalpers.

[@atzberger1]

@@kerkertrandov459 funny that even with what is "the best" gaming cpu on the market at very specific points in raid with zero addons and optimal graphics settings for performance testing my fps drops from 140-150fps to 60-70fps, one of those that is very easy to test is the intermission in queen ansurek in a big group, the pull threads kill performance like there is no tomorrow for no reason other than they are probably 3d models instead of sprites, on the lowest graphics settings

[@iyaramonk]

Raiding in WoW is 100% cpu bound unless you have a very very old graphics card. CapframeX has a feature that let's you see if you are possibly cpu bottlenecked. Try searching for "How To Identify A CPU Bottleneck - Is Your CPU Bottlenecking Your GPU?" by Mostly Positive Reviews

[@pmdinaz]

Thank you. I'm probably a bit older than the average gamer, so having certain things explained a different way sure does help. Thankfully I had many settings 'right' for optimized frames, but I get a bit overwhelmed with NVidia's interface as it relates to 'best' settings for WoW. Since it's mainly cpu driven (I hope that's right) the gpu side doesn't really seem to impact regular gameplay that much. But when I get into dungeons, or world bosses, my frames still tank. Running a 3060ti (8G) and i5 12600k, with 16G RAM and 1TB SSD. Should be pretty beefy, but wonder about a few things still. Are my fans spinning fast enough, early enough to prevent thermal throttling etc. But mainly it's those actual NVidia settings that gets me nervous to hit that check box haha.

[@davidjanscholten]

thanks asmongold v2, gained around 40fps~ by changing the correct settings! much appreciated the video and keep upload more of these! I've subscribed to you, greets from Germany!

[@victorfernandes5085]

Whats your opinion about Nvidia reflex?

[@fb-td1up]

I saw myself on this video! ❤Proudmoore!

[@Diguez]

Great video. But on windows you can choose between directX 11 and 12.. any opinion on that?

[@mysticalos]

i guess they haven’t completed deprecation on it yet. bur what i was told is that menu is or will be obsolete in favor of compat options at bottom.

[@Diguez]

@@mysticalos Oh yes. I understand that. I meant to ask if you have any opinion on which is best?

[@mysticalos]

always 12 unless you're on an old card with compat issues.

[@Moonwired]

Lowering render scale bellow 100% changed my fps from 300, to 90. Edit: i also had to turn off advanced gpu options, i’m guessing it’s also bugged on my hardware // current drivers. I dont know why, but turning it off gained me like 50 fps.

[@ELIIIIIH]

Same. Im at 165 while doing world content with it on 100%, when i turn it down to 90, i go to 90 fps....

[@xagew9729]

ty for the video, upvoted +++

[@randomhero123]

Awesome video, I was playing with my settings the whole time and gained 10-12 fps in Dornogal/outside Dornogal. One thing that happened to me once with a patch, was that it reset my target FPS to 8 FPS. I logged in one day and everything was so choppy and noticed my fps was pegged to 8 FPS, took me awhile to realize that was the problem. Just a heads up if anyone else ever has a similar issue, check that your target FPS isn't randomly changed.

[@tdpark]

excellent video! can you do a guide about how to speed up loading screen time in WoW?

[@mysticalos]

that's next one actually haha cause I do know some huge tricks for that

[@benjamindubil2285]

Dude, thank you so much... I used scaling and its buffed, put in back to 100% double FPS

[@Holy306]

What do you think about running /console set ResampleAlwaysSharpen 1 ? does it have any negative performance hits?

[@mysticalos]

that forces the FSR sharpness slider to run even if not using FSR. whether it affects performance much hard to say. I haven't really done any testing on that.

[@CaioHenrique-j4m]

thx for all

[@Vesilol]

Damn I've been using render scale to 91% due to a Quazzii video. I've been dipping to 30-40 FPS in raids. 60-70 in Dorn, 80-100 in the world. Turning it back to 100% I shot up to 273 FPS in that same spot you are at in the video. Ty for this. If you see this, on a 240hz 5120x1440p widescreen monitor is there a recommended in game target FPS cap? 120? 240?

[@mysticalos]

i mean if you can hit 277 then can you maintain 240 or does it drop elsewhere? if you can maintain that then that’s your goal. your refresh rate. but if you’re dropping in raid 120 is a good raid setting. unless you drop below that too then you could use 80 or 60. both divisible into 240 so either have perfect frame pacing.

[@Vesilol]

@mysticalos looks like I'm between 80 and 120 now in dungeons or dorn. Not sure on raid yet. Still a big increase from the 30-40. My monitor has freesync, but I have a nvidia 3080 ti, so I don't think it does anything, if that matters.

[@dexzero]

try using liquid details on fair, and disabling any kind of 3d models on screen, then try FSR and render resolution again.

[@Opie_eg]

What are your thoughts on the performance impact of downloaded icon packs, and masque? When I profile it masque seems negligible.

[@mysticalos]

same as the talk about the player resolution. upping resolution of icons and like won't hit performance really as long as you have modern amount of vram. it might hurt you if you have a potato igpu though. I actually use the huge mechagon icon pack that uprezes every icon in game. and that's about 1+GB of icons

[@Opie_eg]

@@mysticalos Thank you for the swift reply. I'm running a 4070 so i doubt I'm gpu bound, I use the same icon pack. Your video was very informative!

[@hdmoviesource]

Great video, thank you.

[@NopeAce631]

first thing i checked was render scale, i had it set to 75%. moved to 100 and went from 60 to 110 fps. ty.

[@flynn6531]

14900k vs 7800x3d? V-cache vs threaded performance?

[@iyaramonk]

V-cache is huge for WoW

[@SimonParkerUK]

I too use a 4k monitor via a Mac mini m4 pro, what would you recommend the render scale is set to? 1440? I can set it to default 2160 100% and still keeps fps at close to 120fps but fans kick in. What is your recommendation I normally cap at 60fps

[@mysticalos]

i wouldn’t worry about fans kicking in. that’s what they’re supposed to do under load. if you really want a good crisp non 100% then no lower than 75 but if you’re fine with performance at 100 just leave at 100

[@SimonParkerUK]

@@mysticalos yea I have it at 75%, and fx set to 0.2?

[@shotaz11]

Absolute Legend

[@AlexEvans12]

everyone should watch this video!

[@itummy18]

Needed this brother

[@thelastberserk630]

hi, thanks for the interesting video. an APPLE M1 ultra do you think would be a good CPU for the next few years? Thanks

[@mysticalos]

Years? iffy. the thing about ultra is it's no more good for wow than basically base or pro. wow isn't gonna use that many cpu cores. ultra is more for multi tasking. but as someone who went from an M1 to an m3 and saw cpu boost just from that. i can definitely say M1 will fall behind over time. it will be good enough for a while but it won't be great for much longer. technology moves fast.

[@thelastberserk630]

@@mysticalos ty!

[@thelastberserk630]

@@mysticalos Thanks! If I understand correctly, to play with fps 60 at 1080p it is better at this point an M4 with less GPU core, rather than an ultra M1 that has more GPU core, because the single CPU M4 core is more performing than the single CPU core M1 ultra. correct? Thanks again.

[@TheXerosyn]

Appreciate you putting all this out, been following your last three and I seem to just be stuck at 60 fps no matter what settings i change. No, I dont have any of the Max FPS or Target FPS checked.

[@96kire96]

vsync or gsync/freesync turned on propably with a 60 hz monitor

[@Diozakrod91]

Try turning off vsync? I've always been capped at 60. Yesterday I randomly decided to disable vsync and my fps instantly shot through the roof.

[@TheXerosyn]

Ill try that once servers back up, o in prob 8 hours lol

[@TheXerosyn]

no change, still hovers between 50-60 FPS always

[@mysticalos]

probably just cpu bottlenecked. what cpu?