Low FPS in World of Warcraft

Hey sorry, Catalyst version is in fact 10.12, the 8.801 I originally posted was actually the "driver package version".
As for heat, it's been fine so far. After running WoW for about an hour the temp is only sitting at around 55-60 degrees Celsius.

The rates im using here are in Stormwind Trade Dist, its the most populated place on my server. Settings are all high or ultra short of a few such as shadow detail and distance. My last machine was running windows vista 64 bit, asus rampage II, 4 gigs of ram and an AMD radeon HD 4850, not overclocked.

With that system I would imagine higher frames too, however if that is your overall minimum I would say you are in pretty decent shape. Depending on your server population and time of day you are testing, WoW cities can be extremely demanding. I would recommend benching WoW in different places and raids to see how well your system is doing overall. Here is a performance guide that might give you a better idea of your place.

Take a look at the link posted by Relic, it is a very detailed guide that I read myself just recently. A very useful tip in it is to update your game config to run with the DirectX 11 path as when running a DX11 capable card it can result in a considerable fps gain along with some nice DX11 image quality gains.

WoW is a very dynamic game environment (as in the number effects/shadows/animations etc that have to be processed can be very variable depending on the number of characters on screen, number of trees[found this was a very fps limiting factor on my old 8800GTX when having any AA turned on] displayed due to draw distance settings etc. etc.).


If you have a steady 60 FPS in 5/10/25 man content during boss encounters I think your system is performing without issue.

One question though, did you do a complete fresh install of WoW or was it copied across or was your OS "upgraded" from Vista to Win7? There could be issues with that.