Timeline for Does a 64-bit OS improve the performance of World of Warcraft?
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| Jun 20, 2013 at 15:54 | comment | added | Jagd | Well, this thread is a few years old, but I suppose it's still relevant. I get choppy graphics in LFR on Lei Shen, but only during a certain part of the fight (and I'm still not sure what causes it exactly). But apart from that, I don't have problems and my graphics card (Radeon HD 5870) is about three years old now. | |
| Apr 29, 2013 at 4:54 | comment | added | Timothy003 | @Jagd Tell that to the 40-man raiders. | |
| Mar 11, 2013 at 23:01 | comment | added | Jagd | I'm not sure where you guys are going with this bottleneck discussion. It doesn't make sense. WoW is anything but a demanding game on any hardware that is current with the day. If anyone is noticing a supposed "bottleneck" then it's certainly not WoW's fault, but rather old hardware. | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 16:52 | comment | added | Inzanik | CPU tends to be the bottleneck on WoW and not the GPU, its does not really benefit from more than 2 cores. | |
| May 23, 2011 at 5:30 | comment | added | Vincent | Yes, but I bet that in his case the GPU is the bottleneck. | |
| May 22, 2011 at 21:40 | comment | added | Matthew Read | Bottlenecks are always context-dependent. "The GPU is the bottleneck" might be true often, and for most parts of the game, but as a blank statement it's wrong. | |
| May 21, 2011 at 0:33 | comment | added | PeterL | The hard drive will impact loading times, but not much else. This includes both loading into the game and loading new objects as they come into view (terrain, loading other players and their equipment as you fly into town, etc). It won't have much, if any, impact during more critical times (PvP, instances, raids), just when a lot of new stuff needs to come in. You mention long loading times to get into the game -- the biggest factor here will be large database addons (Auctioneer, some quest addons, altoholic, etc). Try removing those on characters that don't need them before buying an SSD. | |
| May 20, 2011 at 20:40 | comment | added | Lotus Notes | I'm not so well versed in computer hardware, but is it possible that the bottleneck could also be the hard drive? WoW has a huge amount of data it needs to load, and despite having an extremely powerful computer it usually takes me 2 or 3 minutes of loading screen to actually get into the game. After the first load, it's very quick however. Would it be worth getting an SSD just to install WoW on? | |
| May 20, 2011 at 15:31 | history | answered | Vincent | CC BY-SA 3.0 |