DrillNHer 0 Report post Posted January 10, 2017 Hello! So, whenever I move around with my character, I get sometimes sudden FPS drops to 19-22 FPS. Otherwise it's good old 60+. I'm running at highest possible settings. I even tried to put the settings to lowest, the issue still continues. This issue started today. No new addons has been installed. I've also tried to put windowed mode. No new programs has been installed on computer. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erjh8765 19 Report post Posted January 10, 2017 Overclock your CPU. If you have an AMD CPU or a non-overclockable CPU, you have my condolences. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrillNHer 0 Report post Posted January 10, 2017 8 minutes ago, Erjh8765 said: Overclock your CPU. If you have an AMD CPU or a non-overclockable CPU, you have my condolences. Why do I need to overclock it? As I said, this problem has never happened before today. I'm pretty sure my CPU is fine. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erjh8765 19 Report post Posted January 10, 2017 I am pretty sure your CPU isn't fine, because if it was fine you'd get no stuttering and no FPS drops like the rest of us. To fix this, you need to OC it. Of course this issue has happened before but you were not paying attention and/or you hadn't been in a very crowded area. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sumokat 0 Report post Posted January 10, 2017 Wait, overclock your CPU for vanilla World of Warcraft? What is it a Pentium III processor? Check out your background processes and see if you got something hanging up. Granted, it could be World of Warcraft hanging up, but I would suspect it is because of something going on behind the scenes (another process hanging up your CPU). Considering the fact that vanilla World of Warcraft can run on an 800MHz processor See Here & 256Mb of RAM. I can guarantee you unless you are playing on a relic of a computer circa 2002 that your processor isn't the answer. With all of that being said, World of Warcraft does use a fair amount of disk I/O (which in turn can cause lag if a lot of textures, models, etc are being loaded) which can cause lag and other artifacts. Check your processes, see what's going on there, then I would investigate your actual hard drive if the problem makes your game unplayable. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrillNHer 0 Report post Posted January 10, 2017 12 minutes ago, Erjh8765 said: I am pretty sure your CPU isn't fine, because if it was fine you'd get no stuttering and no FPS drops like the rest of us. To fix this, you need to OC it. Of course this issue has happened before but you were not paying attention and/or you hadn't been in a very crowded area. Wow.. Just wow dude.. I don't know if you are 10 years old or if you just don't know anything about computers.. 2 minutes ago, sumokat said: Wait, overclock your CPU for vanilla World of Warcraft? What is it a Pentium III processor? Check out your background processes and see if you got something hanging up. Granted, it could be World of Warcraft hanging up, but I would suspect it is because of something going on behind the scenes (another process hanging up your CPU). Considering the fact that vanilla World of Warcraft can run on an 800MHz processor See Here & 256Mb of RAM. I can guarantee you unless you are playing on a relic of a computer circa 2002 that your processor isn't the answer. With all of that being said, World of Warcraft does use a fair amount of disk I/O (which in turn can cause lag if a lot of textures, models, etc are being loaded) which can cause lag and other artifacts. Check your processes, see what's going on there, then I would investigate your actual hard drive if the problem makes your game unplayable. Yea, allready guessed that some background process is ваууing up. Gonna try CCleaner, perhaps something will be found. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sumokat 0 Report post Posted January 10, 2017 Just now, DrillNHer said: Wow.. Just wow dude.. I don't know if you are 10 years old or if you just don't know anything about computers.. Yea, allready guessed that some background process is ваууing up. Gonna try CCleaner, perhaps something will be found. Good luck, I hope you get your problem sorted out, I understand how frustrating these things can be. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erjh8765 19 Report post Posted January 10, 2017 (edited) Actually, I am 42 years old and I have been playing WoW since 2005 on a Pentium 4 Northwood 3.06 GHz Single Core CPU and an NVIDIA GeForce 4 460 Go 64 Mb AGP GPU. I am an computer expert, and I have played WoW over the years on several different platforms including, but not limited to, an Intel Core 2 Extreme [email protected] GHz Yorkfield CPU, an Haswell i7-4770k and a Skylake 6600k CPU. I am pretty sure that your CPU is the culprit here. The other guy has no clue what he is saying. Edited January 10, 2017 by Erjh8765 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrillNHer 0 Report post Posted January 10, 2017 6 minutes ago, sumokat said: Good luck, I hope you get your problem sorted out, I understand how frustrating these things can be. Thank you, will update the situation! :) 2 minutes ago, Erjh8765 said: Actually, I am 42 years old and I have been playing WoW since 2005 on a Pentium 4 Northwood 3.06 GHz Single Core CPU and an NVIDIA GeForce 4 460 Go 64 Mb AGP GPU. I am an computer expert, and I have played WoW over the years on several different platforms including, but not limited to, an Intel Core 2 Extreme [email protected] GHz Yorkfield CPU, an Haswell i7-4770k and a Skylake 6600k CPU. I am pretty sure that your CPU is the culprit here. The other guy has no clue what he is saying. Well, perhaps I'm not 42 years old, but I've been studying information technology for the last 9 years. I've been also on special IT school for years. I think I know littlebit more than you about computers. I have a gaming computer and you are seriously saying that I need to overclock my CPU for a ваууing VANILLA WOW? So tell me, "expert", why this issue has not happened before? All games run on high/ultra with over 60 FPS. And as you said: "Of course this issue has happened before but you were not paying attention and/or you hadn't been in a very crowded area." This is bs, kiddo, I think I would notice if my FPS goes down to ваууing 20. Worst possible outcome is that the problem is in HDD. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erjh8765 19 Report post Posted January 10, 2017 It depends what kind of CPU you have. Post here your CPU make and model. I play at 6880X2880 DSR resolution, 4 times upscaled my native 3440X1440 resolution, and my 6600k Skylake dips below 60 FPS in 40 man raids and in very crowded areas. I refuse to believe you know much about computers, if you did you'd know that: 1. You could not run WoW on a Pentium III. 2. Our Pentium 4's and AMD Athlons back in the day were very heavily overclocked in order to cope with WoW. You did not notice the issue before b/c you weren't paying attention and b/c you don't run the game with the FPS counter enabled. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erjh8765 19 Report post Posted January 10, 2017 BTW, you can see below an HWINFO32 summary of the system I ran WoW Vanilla on back in 2005. It's a laptop and it still works: http://imgur.com/Y9oQ6xW 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
