How to optimize your WOW

[Gotxi]

Well, this is my first real contribution to mmowned comunity, i hope this will help you getting a better playing experience with wow.
I know this is a repost, but im doing a recopilation, so here it is anyway.


These are my personal stuff recopilation for getting better FPS and latency:

- Leatrix Latency Fix:
This modify your TCP protocol to have more responses, and then allows you to have a better latency in WOW and other online games and app's that uses TCP protocol. (better explanation in link)

Leatrix Latency Fix : WoWInterface Downloads : WoW Tools & Utilities


- Latency Fix for MAC:
Same as above, but this is for MAC (didn't tested it because i dont have a mac)
fix latency - download tag - Softpedia


- Have better FPS in AOE's:
With this console command in wow, you can decrease the number of elements that fall in some AOE's like Blizzard (mage), or Hellfire (warlock) or Volley (hunter) set it to 1 for best performance. You can type it in the wow chat box, or make a macro with the command and click it.

/console SpellEffectLevel 1

This is the normal number:

/console SpellEffectLevel 9

This is for fun! (expect to crash your wow if you have a very bad machine):

/console SpellEffectLevel 500

- Lower even more your wow graphics:
¿Still bad FPS? lower your wow graphics even more that wow allows in their options to play it in machines from the past millenium.

Create this macro in-game and execute it:

/console gxcolorbits 16
/console gxdepthbits 16
/console skycloudlod 0
/console particledensity 0.3
/console lod 0
/console fullalpha 0
/console doodadanim 0
/console mapshadows 0
/console loddist 50
/console smallcull 2
/console maxlights 0
/console specular 0
/console pixelshader 0
/console detaildensity 1
/console unitdrawdist 20
/console waterlod 0
/console basemip 1
/console shadowlevel 1
/console alphalevel 1
/console anisotropic 16
/console textureloddist 80
/console light 0
/console fog 0
/console bitdepth 16
/console showwater 0
/console maxlod 0
/console watermaxlod 0
/console waterwaves 0
/console waterspecular 0
/console waterripples 0
/console waterparticulates 0
/console showshadow 0
/console skyclouddensity 0
/console skysunglare 0
/console skyshow 0
/console gxrestart

If your UI dont restart itself with this macro, restart it manually with /rl command


Sorry for if i did some english mistakes, im spanish :P
I hope it helps!

[AfterMidnight]

I really dug the macro to minimalize everything, but found that it it's mostly the spelleffects that decrease fps by a large chunk; but not seeing things such as the desecration in ToC when tanking causes troubles

[Vandir]

View distance messes up FPS too. Btw, muchas gracias para esta. Quiero usarla ahora.

[aukatrau]

Do you have any commands that would beef up wows graphics even more? I have a gtx 260 graphics card and 60 fps with highest graphics most of the time. Imma try the 500 spell effect one and see if it makes AoE look better.

[Nonominator]

Nice way to crash the client. Thanks! Error #134

[Nonominator]

Split that crap up into parts and it sorta works. I really didnt see a increase.

[belemeth]

Maybe some of you guys don't know but running Window media player helps your loading in WoW. Pretty sure it was tested and it works.Do note it is not a HUGE improvement just a significant one

[gippy]

Maybe some of you guys don't know but running Window media player helps your loading in WoW. Pretty sure it was tested and it works.Do note it is not a HUGE improvement just a significant one

Running windows media play at the same time laggs the hell out of my game

[mmhelm]

/rl is just reloading the interface - part of the debug tools that got added in again.

I don't see the effectiveness of using it while changing graphics options.