WoW Fps issue.

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spolt1o5

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to start out the basics of my system are as follows:
2x Geforce GTS 250's SLI'd
i7 quad core cpu
6 gb ram
1tb hdd (not solidstate)
windows 7 64 bit

I run wow at full settings no problem but i have always had lower fps (15-20) cities, raiding, bgs, whatever but it never had an affect on my ability to play until recently. In high populated areas (really just ashran) my fps drops to zero i get heavy lag and the screen freezes. after waiting a few moments i can slowly move out of the area but i dont want that to happen at all. So here my question, is this a ram issue or a video card issue? I've read online about people getting 60 fps with one gtx 250 so im not sure why i have never been able to get that kind of quality out of mine. another thing to keep in mind for your response: i am computer savy i have built every computer i have owned but i dont know much about current hardware, what causes what problems, etc.

thanks in advance.
 
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First off, there is no such thing as a GTX 250, so I'm not sure what you're comparing to. Secondly, those GTS's aren't exactly recent tech, granted that WoW is more processor-bound it still requires a decent card to display high frame-rates. Blizzard officially lists an Nvidia 8800GT as the bare necessity to run WoW WoD. See this comparison of the 8800GT vs a GTS250: http://www.hwcompare.com/2185/geforce-8800-gt-512mb-vs-geforce-gts-250-1gb/

Ideally, your GTS250's should be able to handle the game, but not at full settings. I haven't visited Ashran much yet, but I would guess that the other player characters are what might be chewing up your fps. It's always been the case that high local player population relative to the player...
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First off, there is no such thing as a GTX 250, so I'm not sure what you're comparing to. Secondly, those GTS's aren't exactly recent tech, granted that WoW is more processor-bound it still requires a decent card to display high frame-rates. Blizzard officially lists an Nvidia 8800GT as the bare necessity to run WoW WoD. See this comparison of the 8800GT vs a GTS250: http://www.hwcompare.com/2185/geforce-8800-gt-512mb-vs-geforce-gts-250-1gb/

Ideally, your GTS250's should be able to handle the game, but not at full settings. I haven't visited Ashran much yet, but I would guess that the other player characters are what might be chewing up your fps. It's always been the case that high local player population relative to the player slows down the game. Some ideas to relieve the framerate bottleneck would be getting WoW files onto an SSD or upgrading your SLI to a more recent single-card solution. You might want to run speccy while playing to see what your component temperatures are reaching, and maybe check cpu core utilization rates to see if they're unusually high.
 
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Wow is a poorly coded game so decent hardware may not run it as well as it should. Some people can play it well, some can't play it very well at all. The issue at all times is impossible to fix. As for myself my R9 290X doesn't play that game very well at all, and it's a beast card but doesn't tend to get 60FPS.

Also - I am taking your card as a GTS 250 (In SLI).
 
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