First off, thank you for taking the time to read my thread. Yesterday I purchased and installed a GeForce GTX 470 (manufactured by Sparkle). I started by uninstalling my old ATI drivers through the Device Manager, and then installing the card and downloading the latest NVIDIA drivers from the website. Shortly after, I opened World of Warcraft excited to see my new card pump out well over 60 FPS on Ultra, but when I enabled Sunshafts... WoW froze, then white-screened, and the video card crashed telling me "Display Driver Nvidia Windows Kernel Mode Driver Version 270.61 has stopped working and has successfully recovered." This happened repeatedly, so I found a post about the 260.99 version of the drivers being better, and I uninstalled the 270.61 and installed the 260.99. However, I still had the issue of WoW freezing when I enabled Sunshafts, but the video card driver didn't crash.
After this I decided to just roll with everything on the highest settings with the exception of Sunshafts which were disabled, Liquid Detail which was on low, and Shadows which were on good. In Orgrimmar I was getting around 90 FPS with a few people sitting by me, but only 65-75 in a populated area. Later that night I raided (25-man), and I was getting around 75 FPS while NOT in combat... as soon as I entered combat, I would hover around 40-45 FPS and spike as low as 25-30. To counteract this I put shadows on low, reduced my multisampling to 1x, my texture filtering to bilinear, and I even put my particle density on good. However, I only saw about a 5 FPS improvement from all of this.
My previous card, a Radeon 5770, was performing better in a 25-man raid than my card did last night. At the end of the raid, I decided to try enabling Directx11 by editing the config file, and it resulted in a loss of about 10 FPS, so I removed it. However, after removing it, I no longer had issues with enabling Sunshafts. As of right now, I'm running on the latest driver (270.61) which is working without crashing, but still giving me sub-par FPS.
Long story short, this card should be more than capable of handling WoW. To be honest I really don't know what could be causing this, and I'd appreciate any help.
Below is a list of my system's specs:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 (Sparkle)
Intel i7 920 2.67Ghz
6GB DDR3 RAM
700 watt Power Supply
Windows 7 64-bit
THINGS I HAVE ALREADY TRIED:
updating/rolling back drivers
enabling directx11 in the config.wtf file
After this I decided to just roll with everything on the highest settings with the exception of Sunshafts which were disabled, Liquid Detail which was on low, and Shadows which were on good. In Orgrimmar I was getting around 90 FPS with a few people sitting by me, but only 65-75 in a populated area. Later that night I raided (25-man), and I was getting around 75 FPS while NOT in combat... as soon as I entered combat, I would hover around 40-45 FPS and spike as low as 25-30. To counteract this I put shadows on low, reduced my multisampling to 1x, my texture filtering to bilinear, and I even put my particle density on good. However, I only saw about a 5 FPS improvement from all of this.
My previous card, a Radeon 5770, was performing better in a 25-man raid than my card did last night. At the end of the raid, I decided to try enabling Directx11 by editing the config file, and it resulted in a loss of about 10 FPS, so I removed it. However, after removing it, I no longer had issues with enabling Sunshafts. As of right now, I'm running on the latest driver (270.61) which is working without crashing, but still giving me sub-par FPS.
Long story short, this card should be more than capable of handling WoW. To be honest I really don't know what could be causing this, and I'd appreciate any help.
Below is a list of my system's specs:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 (Sparkle)
Intel i7 920 2.67Ghz
6GB DDR3 RAM
700 watt Power Supply
Windows 7 64-bit
THINGS I HAVE ALREADY TRIED:
updating/rolling back drivers
enabling directx11 in the config.wtf file
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