Choosing a Card for World of Warcraft

[wizisme]

At the moment the answer is "fastest NVIDIA card you can afford" is the answer. ATI has some driver issues with HD48x0 series giving sometimes terrible performance in WoW and until those are resolved, I'd stick to the green team.

So, GTX260 or GTX285, take your pick. If you currently run 8800GTS, to get a noticeable upgrade, GTX285. It probably won't run everything in Northrend at 60fps - Dalaran is pretty tough - but...

Even the top card could peak over 120fps only when there is roughly nothing on screen.

Isn't that sentence a tad contradictory? I read each sentence like the following:

Even the low end cards could peak over 120FPS when there is roughly nothing on the screen

OR

ONLY the top card could peak over 120FPS when there is roughly nothing on the screen

You would expect that if any cards got over 120FPS it would be the high-end one, no?

[Jarnis]

Point was: No matter which card you used (back then), you could get only to a bit over 120fps and only when there was roughly nothing on screen.

...indicating that, at least back then, the engine was CPU limited.

Of course the whole article is obsolete as the WoW engine has changed substantially since it was written.

[Unregistered]

"lavate los manos" "lavate los manos"; so let me see geekoids aren't you better off putting more money towards a better processor and RAM than the top of the line GTX295 price/performance wise. Jarvos = e^(iπ)+1

V={F:R3|X-->R3 so (Del x F)=0}
W={F=(Del g)}
dim(v/w)= X800XT

Personally you won't catch me playing World of Wankcraft - Age of Conan anyone?

[Snagglebrick]

Personally you won't catch me playing World of Wankcraft - Age of Conan anyone?

Oh! I see what you did there! That's INCREDIBLY FUNNY!!!!!!11111111111111111ONE

No really! Genius! REALLY REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY

kthanxbye

I still run an old 2600xt, and am just about hanging on in WoW. People will beg to differ, but it's playable for me.

[Valkrin]

Good article Jarnis.

So according to this thread, if your an idiot you can only post as unregistered member.

[Unregistered]

Nice article. :)

[Unregistered]

RE: "You DONT need a top end Vid card for WoW. Sorry folks."

WTF is with my system then:

Q6600 - Quad Core 2.4Ghz
NVidia 9800GTX+ 512MB
4GB Corsair RAM
650W Corsair PS
Vista 64-Bit Ultimate

Average FPS: 51
5 Man Instance w/ AOE maxed out: 12 FPS!!!!

I was expecting 80+ FPS out of this system based on this review and every other one I've read. Am I missing something?

[Meaker]

RE: "You DONT need a top end Vid card for WoW. Sorry folks."

WTF is with my system then:

Q6600 - Quad Core 2.4Ghz
NVidia 9800GTX+ 512MB
4GB Corsair RAM
650W Corsair PS
Vista 64-Bit Ultimate

Average FPS: 51
5 Man Instance w/ AOE maxed out: 12 FPS!!!!

I was expecting 80+ FPS out of this system based on this review and every other one I've read. Am I missing something?

You got AA/AF going?

[Unregistered]

i play WoW on a Windows Vista basic and my graphics and speed are awful. I need to know what to buy for better Graphics & Speed but I don't have a very large budget...

[darkblade088]

I just tried wow today on max possible settings at 1024x768 ( no joke ) and it was pretty easy to get sub 40fps with the GTX285