WOW has poor FPS

TehAmigos

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Hello everybody, i have just formated my hdd and i installed a fresh copy of windows 8.1 Industry pro (uni privilege). Everything is great compared to the windows 10 i had before. But my big issue is that wow has so * fps its not even funny. I was able to play on the 6th preset with about 40-60 fps, expect some deeps here and there, now i barely have over 30.

CPU: AMD A10-5800K @4.1Ghz

RAM: 8GB DDR3 @1866MHZ

GPU: MSI Radeon R7 250 2GB @1130Mhz core and 980Mhz Memory

Also i had the latest drivers for the GPU when i was playing on Windows 10

WOW is on version 7.3.2.25549
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One thing I would check, is to check whether hybrid graphics is enabled or not. That APU/GPU combo I think is capable of it. It is possible that is causing your problems as that feature was quite hit and miss with performance. WoW is very CPU intensive, and yours is not very good, nor is that graphics card. WoW has been an Intel/Nvidia friendly title since Vanilla. A friend of mine was starting to struggle, in raids with an i5 4590 with a GTX 560ti, which is faster than an R7 250. I gave him my old 770 and his FPS improved immensely. His old Phenom II struggled with WoW, with the 560ti, but improved greatly with the i5, in Draenor. Legion proved to be a bit much for his GPU though, without running everything on low. Not sure why you...

logainofhades

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One thing I would check, is to check whether hybrid graphics is enabled or not. That APU/GPU combo I think is capable of it. It is possible that is causing your problems as that feature was quite hit and miss with performance. WoW is very CPU intensive, and yours is not very good, nor is that graphics card. WoW has been an Intel/Nvidia friendly title since Vanilla. A friend of mine was starting to struggle, in raids with an i5 4590 with a GTX 560ti, which is faster than an R7 250. I gave him my old 770 and his FPS improved immensely. His old Phenom II struggled with WoW, with the 560ti, but improved greatly with the i5, in Draenor. Legion proved to be a bit much for his GPU though, without running everything on low. Not sure why you would downgrade to Win 8.1 either. Support for it isn't long for this world, and no future DX12 capability.
 
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