[FPS problem]] FPS is going down, help!

[Mudkip]

hello n stuff

i have a problem that is driving me incredibly insane...
sometimes when i play world of warcraft regulary, like every other day, my frames decrease drasticly to 0 or 1 for about 15seconds. this happens randomly but in, lets say 1-2 hours of gameplay at least 1 time...

i already tried all the "logic" ways to fix it like running repair.exe, deactivating all addons, decrease graphics, downloading the newest shit for graphiccards etc.
i already lost a couple of arena matches due to this and I don't know what to do, PLEASE help me!

everyone who is delivering a solution will of course be rewarded with reputation (up to 4)

[Danne206]

Could be anything.
Try:
*Scanning your computer for virus, adware, malware etc
*Updating / Reinstalling your drivers
*Uninstall unneeded programs
*Check the temp of your CPU / Graphics card etc
*Clean your computer from dust and other crap
*Check so your fans are going CORRECTLY

If you haven't in a while, I REALLY recommend formating.
Your computer gets slower and slower, it's needed to do this once now and then.

[Mudkip]

gonna try everything out you said, thanks, +rep!
but I'd like to hear other solutions

oh and one thing... i don't see that massive fps decrease on any other game (assasins creed, halo2 n stuff)
wow itself should be causing the problem

[Danne206]

gonna try everything out you said, thanks, +rep!
but I'd like to hear other solutions

oh and one thing... i don't see that massive fps decrease on any other game (assasins creed, halo2 n stuff)
wow itself should be causing the problem

Thanks self :].
Sorry by the way, didn't see that you already tried some stuff there.
Sounds wierd.. WoW is a pretty heavy game (pretty - get me right), but WoW is WoW, and it's known for it's problems.

Try deleting the cache folder (I don't know if repair.exe still does it - worth a shot.), and if that doesn't help, try to reinstall WoW, it doesn't take that long if you use the WOTLK cd, some few patches only then.

[Aes]

How much RAM do you have?
You might be running out of memory causing things to slow down.

Also try this. Press ctrl+alt+del, task manager, processes, right click wow.exe and select 'set affinity' select all 2(or 4) cores. see if that makes a difference. If its already on all of them change it to just 2 of them or just the first core.

[BrightChild]

Sounds like graphics card overheat or something along those lines. Clean your computer?

[kiniss]

try defragmenting your HDD as well. this may help. I also +1 to the list that danne said.

[XanTheMan]

here's a macro I found a while back that really helped, there was a video link that explained in better detail what each line does, but I cant find the bookmark.

/console groundEffectDensity 256 
/console groundEffectDist 140 
/console detailDoodadAlpha 100 
/console horizonfarclip 2112 
/console farclip 777 
/console characterAmbient 
/console smallcull 0 
/console skycloudlod 3

hope it helps

[Mudkip]

thank you everyone, +rep

XanTheMan, I'm afraid to use that macro, because I don't know how to revert the changes in case i dont like them =(

[Reflection]

thank you everyone, +rep

XanTheMan, I'm afraid to use that macro, because I don't know how to revert the changes in case i dont like them =(

Backup your wtf folder. As far as I'm aware that macro only affects the config file in there, it's basically a way to customize the settings further than with just the in-game settings menu.

[Mudkip]

alright, gonna do that

oh and the +rep thingy...

it's driving me nuts, i searched for a post from everyone of you to give +rep but it always says "Sorry, you cannot give reputation to this post"
so please link me a to a post/thread of yours i'm able to add rep to

[XanTheMan]

Found the 'normal' setting

/console groundEffectDensity 16 
/console groundEffectDist 1 
/console horizonfarclip 1305 
/console farclip 177 
/console characterAmbient 1 
/console smallcull 1 
/console skycloudlod 1 
/console detailDoodadAlpha 1