System Bottlenecking?

[BigGuyz]

Hey Guys,

Not sure if the is the right forum for this but the system I have should be more than enough to play WoW on, but for some reason in 25 man raids I have to turn the graphics down to the lowest settings just to get around 30 fps during boss fights...if the raid is just standing there my fps stays at 60 but once the encounters start (spell graphics and such) it drops to 30, again this is at the lowest graphic settings,
I fell it shouldn't drop to 30 until my graphics are set to "Good-High" Any suggestions?

System Specs:

i5 dual core HT 650 3.2 ghz
Windows 7 Home
6 gigs DDR3
Sapphire 6850 HD
Corsair 650WTX
Screen Rez: 1680 x 1050 60htz
Drivers: 11.2 CCC

Also I haven't really messed with the screen rez in-game, it is set to 1024 x 768 because thats what my old graphics card could handle (5670), although not sure the screen rez would "bottleneck" the performance.

 

[johnb0118]

Are you using Windows 7 64 bit?

 

[BigGuyz]

Sorry should have mentioned that before, yes its Windows 7x64 Home

 

[johnb0118]

You should be getting much higher frames than that:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6850/21.html

All parts of your system should be more than adequate. Make sure your system is 64 bit, and when was the last time you did a fresh OS install?

 

[BigGuyz]

The system is a Dell studio XPS 8100, I have had it for about 9 months....So it came with the OS installed

So I guess to answer your question Dell instaled the OS 9 months ago

 

[johnb0118]

You should reinstall your OS every six months (at least) anyhow. I would do a backup and reinstall the OS fresh, not Dell's image. If you are still getting low frame rates at that point then you have reason to suspect a type of hardware failure. Run a memory test (memtest86), then run a hard drive test (visit the manufacturers website for the download. Then run furmark, which is a gpu stability test. My guess is that a reinstall will likely fix your issues, but if it doesn't refer to testing your hardware.

 

[BigGuyz]

So turning up the resolution in-game should increase the performance?
Sorry I am not real tech savvy..

 

[calinkula]

It's most likely all the bloat-ware and crap-ware that comes on consumer PCs. They even ship crappy custom divers and utilities too on these things.

A clean install of the OS will probably fix it, but most PCs don't come with a Windows disc anymore. And you'll need to know what drivers to get to make sure you can get all the hardware working again without anything crap that might be in the dell drivers.

You could try identifying what is sucking down performance and clean out the junk.

 

[voltagenic]

I use a program called game booster:

http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

It helps close unnecssecary background processes and frees up ram prior to playing a game....or whenever u need a speed up. It also has some other nifty features too, like telling you if your drivers are outta date etc...

Yes increase your resolution for sure. I'd say use your default desktop resolution. I mean, why have a monster of a system like that and not enjoy the best quality/performance you can squeeze out of it?

 

[BigGuyz]

I just thought if the game didnt run well at 1024 x 768, then the performance would decrease even more
in 1680x1050

 

[in_core]

download da latest ati catalyst driver from www.ati.com
wat is ur mobo?