Hi, I recently upgraded from a x1950pro to a 8800gts oc 512. I'm playing World of Warcraft and my FPS in raids goes as low as 10 here and there... I play with everything maxed out so i tried reducing the multisampling and it upped my FPS by 1 or 2...
I've asked around and it seems that everyone i ask that has a card in the 8800s has over 80FPS with everything maxed out. What is wrong?
 
Asus M2NPV-VM
AMD x64 5600+ 2.8GHz
2Go DDR2 800Mhz Kingston
600W GameXStream OCZ PSU
250Go Barrachuda 7200RPM
8800GTS OC 512
 
Playing at 1650x1050 on a LCD display with VSync and tripple buffering so i was expecting 60FPS and maybe 30 in deep action.
I updated the graphic drivers last week when i bought the card.
Got Windows XP SP2

Did you download the latest drivers? That card should SCREAM in WOW.

Man is it Friday yet? Sorry I missed that.  
How is it in other games?  What brand is it? Maybe a dud card?

turn off vsync

did you clean out the previous ATI drivers before you installed the GTS?

I uninstalled the ATI drivers before installling NVidia's.
The card is a BFG.
As much as I understand it, Vsync is supposed to make your H frequency  a fraction of V's, so it should be 60 or 30 or 20 etc... So unless there is another problem the FPS shouldn't be around 10. At least I think.

it could be lag too, WoW is known for that.

Hmm  I also have Unreal 3, does anyone know how to show the FPS in it? tried Ctrl+R like in WoW but it ain't working. Then i would know if it's only WoW or something else.

 
by "clean out" i don't mean just uninstalling the ATI drivers.  try using a program like DriverCleaner and have it remove the actual driver files, and reg entries for the previous card. many times, when switching gpu brands, this will solve the problem.

The best way to increase FPS in WoW is to uninstall it
har har

Are you suffering from the bug where PCI Express bus get stuck @ x1?
 
http://lly316.blogspot.com/2008/03 [...] 1-bug.html

 
well i used CCleaner, no idea if it's enough. I read a bit on DriverCleaner and a couple users said it simply trashed every driver they had for the said "class"  
like trashing the mobo's driver with the video card's driver since they were both Asus
If you tell me a way to make sure this doesn't happen i'll do it right away.
 
I tried disabling V-Sync. I'm standing there with almost nothing moving and i'm at 45 FPS. So there must be something else.

 
Bus Interface: PCI-E 16x @ 16x
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