AIW Radeon x800 XT performance in WoW...

leakypipe86 · Jun 7, 2006, 12:53 AM

I just bought a AIW Radeon x800 XT upgrading from a Radeon 9800 Pro. In WoW I get 10-25 FPS when in Ogrimmar with tons of people in it. That's what I used to get with my 9800 Pro!! In small areas with no ones around, my FPS shoots up to 75+ with is 30 FPS higher than what my 9800 Pro gave me but when I'm outside or inside with alot of people, my FPS just dies. I was hoping for a great difference in FPS between the 9800 Pro and an x800 XT!
Can someone tell me what's going on?

P4 2.6 Ghz w/ HT
1 GB Corsair Twin-X DDR RAM
AIW Radeon x800 XT 256 MB DDR3 (Omega 6.3s)
Windows XP Home
Antec 400W PSU

leakypipe86 · Jun 7, 2006, 01:07 AM

I just tried out Doom 3 and the performance is phenomenal. I jacked up the settings to 1280x1024 (No AA) on High and it runs flawlessly. I used to have it at 1024x768 on medium with decent results but still choppy at times. Is there something wrong with WoW and newer cards? It makes no sense...

H3X4D3C1M4L · Jun 7, 2006, 01:41 AM

WoW if its anything like Guild Wars will lag with a lot of people in the towns due to the network connections and stuff.... MMO's are complicated games and are most often better played with faster internet connections. Your latency to everyone else would affect framerate and all. I can run with everything on minumum or on all max and I get the same crap FPS in Guild Wars when there are a ton of people.

nerdrock · Jun 9, 2006, 03:35 PM

for WoW, performance in the major cities , as far as i've seen, is most dependant on your overall PC's performance, not just focused areas. For framerates in Orgrimmar or Ironforge, your HD's speed, ram, bus speed, etc. all have just as big of an impact as video cards, because the majority of the lag comes from loading all the different player models and gear graphics. Bandwith is not an issue for framerates (Tested and proven. I loaded up WoW at Vikingod's house, who is on DIAL UP, ran into ironforge during prime times, and never dropped below 60fps with every graphic setting maxed)

On my PC, i can crank the graphic settings all the way up, or all the way down, and my Ironforge performance is barely affected. My last PC upgrade was going from my Geforce 4 ti 4400 to my x700, and the only big difference i saw, was when i was in MC/BWL.

datalore · Jun 11, 2006, 06:01 AM

With my experiences with MMO's, the thing that any of these god-forsaken peices of software (even though I love them to death) are most dependant on is RAM. Friend of mine still runs an Athlon XP, but he has 1.5GB of RAM and does not lag (except for drops in framerate due to his gfx card and processor).

So, the graphics card you have is fine, but I would take a look at your RAM size first. If you have 512MB or less, then you will most certainly lag in cities. If you have more than that, then WoW just hates your particular X800, or something.

H3X4D3C1M4L · Jun 11, 2006, 07:35 PM

Hey theres no MMO out there a reasonably high PR Athlon XP can't handle

It depends on the game really... but the communities for these games are so large you can go seek one out and its likely they've figured out how to get every last drop of performance out of the game

Jun 7, 2006, 12:53 AM	#1
leakypipe86 HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 30 Rep Power: 0	AIW Radeon x800 XT performance in WoW... I just bought a AIW Radeon x800 XT upgrading from a Radeon 9800 Pro. In WoW I get 10-25 FPS when in Ogrimmar with tons of people in it. That's what I used to get with my 9800 Pro!! In small areas with no ones around, my FPS shoots up to 75+ with is 30 FPS higher than what my 9800 Pro gave me but when I'm outside or inside with alot of people, my FPS just dies. I was hoping for a great difference in FPS between the 9800 Pro and an x800 XT! Can someone tell me what's going on? P4 2.6 Ghz w/ HT 1 GB Corsair Twin-X DDR RAM AIW Radeon x800 XT 256 MB DDR3 (Omega 6.3s) Windows XP Home Antec 400W PSU

Jun 9, 2006, 03:35 PM	#4
nerdrock DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Western NY Posts: 99 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	for WoW, performance in the major cities , as far as i've seen, is most dependant on your overall PC's performance, not just focused areas. For framerates in Orgrimmar or Ironforge, your HD's speed, ram, bus speed, etc. all have just as big of an impact as video cards, because the majority of the lag comes from loading all the different player models and gear graphics. Bandwith is not an issue for framerates (Tested and proven. I loaded up WoW at Vikingod's house, who is on DIAL UP, ran into ironforge during prime times, and never dropped below 60fps with every graphic setting maxed) On my PC, i can crank the graphic settings all the way up, or all the way down, and my Ironforge performance is barely affected. My last PC upgrade was going from my Geforce 4 ti 4400 to my x700, and the only big difference i saw, was when i was in MC/BWL. __________________ Old signature rendered obsolete by fancy new forum code!

Jun 11, 2006, 06:01 AM	#5
datalore DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 22 Rep Power: 0	With my experiences with MMO's, the thing that any of these god-forsaken peices of software (even though I love them to death) are most dependant on is RAM. Friend of mine still runs an Athlon XP, but he has 1.5GB of RAM and does not lag (except for drops in framerate due to his gfx card and processor). So, the graphics card you have is fine, but I would take a look at your RAM size first. If you have 512MB or less, then you will most certainly lag in cities. If you have more than that, then WoW just hates your particular X800, or something. __________________ ABIT AV8 Athlon 64 3400+ 1.5gb DDR333 Dual Channel 120gb (1x80gb 1x40gb) ATA-100 XFX GeForce 6800GT AGP ----------------------------------------- Compaq Presario V2321US AMD Turion-64 ML-30 1024mb DDR333 (@ 180mhz) 80gb Hitachi 4200rpm hdd (eww) Radeon Xpress 200M w/ 128 shared memory (eww again)

Jun 7, 2006, 01:07 AM	Thread Starter #2
leakypipe86 HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 30 Rep Power: 0	I just tried out Doom 3 and the performance is phenomenal. I jacked up the settings to 1280x1024 (No AA) on High and it runs flawlessly. I used to have it at 1024x768 on medium with decent results but still choppy at times. Is there something wrong with WoW and newer cards? It makes no sense...

Jun 7, 2006, 01:41 AM	#3
H3X4D3C1M4L DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 6,794 Rep Power: 0	WoW if its anything like Guild Wars will lag with a lot of people in the towns due to the network connections and stuff.... MMO's are complicated games and are most often better played with faster internet connections. Your latency to everyone else would affect framerate and all. I can run with everything on minumum or on all max and I get the same crap FPS in Guild Wars when there are a ton of people.

Jun 11, 2006, 07:35 PM	#6
H3X4D3C1M4L DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 6,794 Rep Power: 0	Hey theres no MMO out there a reasonably high PR Athlon XP can't handle It depends on the game really... but the communities for these games are so large you can go seek one out and its likely they've figured out how to get every last drop of performance out of the game