Im constantly at about 3-4 fps when im anything. If i'm lucky one night i'll be at 9. I've seen a lot of problems with this and macs has anything been done? All my spell detail is at low. Is there anything I can change or update on my computer to fix it?
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Terrible fps on WoW any suggestions?
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Spell detail is not the first setting I would turn down. Full screen glow often makes a large difference, as well as multisampling (anything more than 1x doesn't look much better anyway), view distance, etc. If you've turned ALL the options down and still get poor FPS then maybe you just need a better computer. Since you don't specify what hardware you have it's impossible to say if it's a bug or if the hardware is just too outdated (my 2002 PBG4 can't run the game well either! lol).
Yeah, that's low-ish. I have a dual 2.0 GHz G5 with 64 MB Radeon 9600 Pro and it's just barely usable. I generally get 15-20 fps but it can certainly drop below 10 often.
Also depends what resolution you're running. At 1920x1200, you're pushing about 3 times as many pixels as at 1024x768, that makes a big difference.
1.25 MB of RAM should be adequate providing you're not running too much other stuff at the same time. WoW only uses about half a gig under normal conditions.
Probably the best upgrade short of buying a new computer would be upgrading the graphics card (GPU). A few hundred $ or less could probably provide you with a significant frame rate upgrade for WoW purposes.
It's been a while since I played, but I'd suggest turning down the "View" distance and go with a lower game resolution. I mostly played WoW on a 1.8 dual G5, 1GB RAM with a Radeon 9800 pro card and got good performance mostly in the 20's.