MMORPG destroys my HD 4870?!

[Liquid Tension]

This morning my graphics card from an ATi Radeon X1960 Pro 256mb to an XFX ATi Radeon HD 4870 1gb.

I installed the new card. Windows 7 detected the card and installed a Microsoft Driver. Worked fine but I upgraded to the ATi Catalyst 9.10 (driver only).

With everything good to go, I've logged into World of Warcraft, cranked my settings to max (all bar Multi-sampling which I believe is AA and AF) and my FPS has plummeted to 15?!

I was under the impression WoW was far from graphically taxing, even with max settings?!

Current resoution is 1920 x 1200

Is something wrong?

My rig is as follows:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Edition
Asus P35C-DS3R RevA2
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB DDR5
4 x 1Gb GEIL DDR2-800

Thanks

 

[kmufc77]

This morning my graphics card from an ATi Radeon X1960 Pro 256mb to an XFX ATi Radeon HD 4870 1gb.

I installed the new card. Windows 7 detected the card and installed a Microsoft Driver. Worked fine but I upgraded to the ATi Catalyst 9.10 (driver only).

With everything good to go, I've logged into World of Warcraft, cranked my settings to max (all bar Multi-sampling which I believe is AA and AF) and my FPS has plummeted to 15?!

I was under the impression WoW was far from graphically taxing, even with max settings?!

Current resoution is 1920 x 1200

Is something wrong?

My rig is as follows:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Edition
Asus P35C-DS3R RevA2
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB DDR5
4 x 1Gb GEIL DDR2-800

Thanks

Have you uninstalled drivers and reinstalled?

Are you sure you internet connection isnt the problem,if you have a high ping bad connection that would make you fps drop.

Oh i see your from plymouth

 

[rippling]

go to graphics settings and turn shadow off , this game is really badly coded it hardly uses your gpu , mostly your cpu that does the work with it try that

 

[Liquid Tension]

I've not re-installed any software yet.

I've just tried rolling-back to the Microsoft compatibility drivers and I'm still having the same problem :/

 

[Zerolimitz]

like i try to tell my freinds wow is cpu demanding and that graphics card is overkill for it anyways.

 

[CreAtiv3]

Delete or rename your Interface and WTF folders in your wow directory and run the game.
You will need to setup your video and sound options again but see if that sorts it.

Chris

 

[Liquid Tension]

Shadow detail does have a massive impact however it's currently as low as I can set it. With shadows turned up my FPS drops to 4.

 

[Liquid Tension]

Same problems after renaming WTF and Interface. I'm beginning to think it's a 64bit driver problem.

 

[kmufc77]

Same problems after renaming WTF and Interface. I'm beginning to think it's a 64bit driver problem.

no its not WOW runs fine on X64

 

[fastwunz]

download catalyst control centre and see what you get when you overclock the card

 

[bru]

Go and set your graphics settings back to what they were before you installed the new card, check to see what the improvement is over your old graphics card. now you can start to turn settings up a bit, again check your results.....and so on.

As has been said wow is very cpu intensive at higher resolutions and higher graphical settings.

what settings where you running it at before the graphic card upgrade...?

im running it at 1900*1200 full settings with 4*multisampleing and it still drops to 25 fps in places. on a [email protected] 4gb ram bfg gtx260 oc2

what is your q6600 running at....?

 

[Liquid Tension]

no its not WOW runs fine on X64

I know this. I think it's a problem with the 64bit drivers, not wow or the OS.

 

[Liquid Tension]

After playing the game a little more, there is definitely something not right. Graphics card is stuttering where the previous card wasn't. Anyone know of any known problems with HD 4870 X64 drivers and games?

 

[feeddagoat]

I run an HD4870 512mb and get 60+ easily old world stuff full settings. That drops 30 or so in outlands (depending how populated **** is sometimes lower) and single digits in northend. The new content doesnt seem more detailed or populated but it gives crappy frames

 

[nshire]

I had stuttering and I got 4870 512mb but I reinstalled windows 64 HP to my other hard drive and worked fine since.

 

[kmufc77]

After playing the game a little more, there is definitely something not right. Graphics card is stuttering where the previous card wasn't. Anyone know of any known problems with HD 4870 X64 drivers and games?

no problems when i had a 4870 and i used win XP X64 and vista with any games apart from F.E.A.R.

have you even checked you internet connection like i said earlier in this thread a bad internet connection or ping would cripple fps in wow.

 

[Bloomfield]

no problems when i had a 4870 and i used win XP X64 and vista with any games apart from F.E.A.R.

have you even checked you internet connection like i said earlier in this thread a bad internet connection or ping would cripple fps in wow.

How would a poor net connection affect his FPS?