Could my computer be bottle necked?

Question

I've been trying to get the best performance out of World of Warcraft, while at the same time, getting the best performance. I can't seem to figure out why my FPS fluctuates so badly while flying through areas such as Orgrimmar and even during 25-man raids. I have heard of people with systems that are much worse than mine, and they run smoothly no matter where they are. Below are my PC specs and game settings:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.42 GHz
GPU: MSi N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II, 1024 MB GDDR5, slightly overclocked
RAM: 8 GB G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1600
HDD: Western Digital 500 GB HDD 7,200rpm
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Mobo: ASUS M4A77TD

In-game video settings:

Display mode - Windowed (Fullscreen)
Resolution - 1920x1080 (Wide)
Multisampling - 8x
Vertical sync - Enabled
Texture Resolution - High
Texture Filtering - 8x Anisotropic
Projected Textures - Enabled
View Distance - High
Environment Detail - High
Ground Clutter - Fair
Shadow Quality - Fair
Liquid Detail - Good
Sunshafts - High
Particle Density - High

NVIDIA Control Panel settings:

Ambient Occulusion - Off
Anisotropic filtering - Application-controlled
Antialiasing - Gamma correction - Off
Antialiasing - Mode - Application-controlled
Antialiasing - Setting - Application-controlled
Antialiasing - Transparency - Multisample
CUDA - GPUs - All
Maximum pre-rendered frames - 3
Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration - Single display performance mode
Power management mode - Prefer maximum performance
Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization - On
Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias - Allow
Texture filtering - Quality - High performance
Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization - On
Threaded optimization - Auto
Triple buffering - Off
Vertical sync - Use the 3D application setting

Answer 1

The lower FPS in crowded area's is common, same for raids.



Check:



Graphics card isn't overheating with the overclocking

Lower Detail on the settings

Lower Resolution

Lower Anti Aliasing (This is a performance killer on higher levels)



Also, on higher resolutions, you generally dont need the same amount of anti aliasing for smoothing the edges.

Answer 2

Ok Try lowering the screen Resolution - 1600 by 1200 then run game and see if there difference.

And download the newer nvidia driver for your card if havnt already. few days ago they came out with new drivers for 560.



here latest driver as of yesterday GeForce-Forceware-270.51-Win-7-Vista-x64



http://downloads.guru3d.com/GeForce-Forceware-270.51-Win-7-Vista-x64-download-2702.html

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