Reduce Lag in LFR(Especially Elegon)

[MyNewName]

This is a little trick I learned to help some of my guildies who experience Lag on Elegon. Very easy, but you will find it hard to beleive.
Go into your system settings and look for the setting "Shadow Quality" Turn this up to High or Ultra.
Yes, I said TURN IT UP, not down. You will see a huge change in your FPS. People that are running 1-5 FPS run 20-25 with this simple change.
Hope you all enjoy
Twisted

This also works in 10m and 25m regular and Herioc Difficulties.

Ok decided to go run this USELESS lfr to take some photos of results using the worst PC I could find. So here are my results.

This first picture is me running my graphics at RECOMMENDED settings.

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Now this is with me at High Graphics and LOW SHADOW QUALITY



Now with High Graphics AND ULTRA Shadow Quality



Now to try it for the People who will get the most use out of it is those that are forced to run at Low end graphics settings. You have it horrible in this fight because your graphics come set on LOW Shadow quality.

Low graphics settings, with Low Shadow Quality



Now Crank that up. Low graphics Settings with ULTRA shadow Quality



As you can see there is a very nice boost in FPS just by making a minor adjustment to your system settings.

Hope this shows you exactly what I was getting at in this post and that you all enjoy.

Thanks

[Winsane]

There are people who play with 1-5 fps..?

[MyNewName]

Surprisingly Alot of people that normally run from 30-50 still experience HUGE lag spikes on Elegon alone. But I do have some people in the guild that basically do LFR frozen in place :P And on a dead realm we have to use everyone we can find.

[solshine2510]

I had to switch to my older laptop for a few weeks once my stationary PC broke sometime ago, and while I had to tune down all settings to Low/Fair and unload most addons, I could run LFR with 20 FPS easily but Elegon was a nightmare, roughly 3-8 fps. Will try it this week just to test the tip out If it works then it's a pity I didn't know it earlier

[kilauea]

Thanks, gonna try this next reset. Every time my toon faces Elegon I get said 1-5 FPS. If I turn completely away, such as when killing the adds, it's completely fine. Stupid Elegon...

[Hordeglider]

OMG, no more 5fps on Elegon, yeh! +rep if it works!

[MyNewName]

I added a series of pictures to the post so that everyone can see what this little setting can actually do. This was all done in the same LFR. I do wish in the same spot. But I was not fast enough and some priest(And not me) LoF'd me off the plattform. Lol... hope you all enjoy

[Triggy]

Im on Ultra settings all the time, but sometimes i play on lowest because of playing other games at the same time. And i had terrible fps on this boss while on low settings, So i put everything on ultra and there was no fps drop at all.

[MyNewName]

I am fairly sure I said NOTHING about changing ANY other setting. Keep all your graphics set to Low . And just turn the "Shadow Quality" up. And I garentee there is a FPS change... But if you forget to hit the "Apply" button at the bottom, then just save me time and do not respond to this post.


I feel the need to clarify something. IF you already play your game on ULTRA settings. Then By default you will have the setting set to ULTRA already. And therefor this is not for you. But if you run at high or under on this fight.. (Low and Fair Seeing the greatest results) Then your settings by default ARE low or fair.
Then you Turn ONLY SHADOW QUALITY up to ULTRA and your FPS will multiply.

[Tehstool]

Is there some sort of caveat here? I put my shadows on ultra and it lowered my fps.

[radergummi]

Thanks, worked great!

[MyNewName]

Thanks, worked great!

Your very welcome.. Glad it was of some use to you

[Genocyber]

Does it work on others places than eregon?
Like ulduar for example?

[MyNewName]

Bosses with High Graphics lag?

[Watcher]

Thanx for sharing 7+ Rep when i can i gave out too much today