E48: World of Warcraft on GTS 250 Test

[Kankuro071]

in ultra settings?

[gamersforeverr]

With a q8300 (4x2.5Ghz), 4GB of ram and GTS250 could i play wow on max settings with max res...how much fps without fraps min. and max. and how much in dalaran??? its important it depends if i'm gonna buy that config...

[ktacharles]

if its not too much to ask could you do a test in Dalaran plz

[ThaDK00]

Justin Bieber plays WoW, that says enough.

[SongoXano]

i have the same grafic that you, but i have less resolutions and the Hz its always 60

but my old grafic was able to put more resolutions and more hz..

and my monitor is the same! can you help me pls?

[lightningpete]

This benchmark video doesnt do any justice... Your inside, and the draw distance for all the shaders and the textures is minimal hence the large FPS... you need to be outdoors or in a busy town centre to get a realistic test.

[znoozaros]

@lightningpete being in a town centre would only test the cpu...

[lightningpete]

@znoozaros the draw distance is cpu intensive hence my post. Also the GPU's shader speed would be taken into account. This video does no justice for a benchmark

[znoozaros]

@lightningpete yes i agree... but when u suggested to go into a city it only takes a lot of cpu power because of all the people in there

[ivansegos]

@lightningpete Yes, I can ultra view distance with my crappy x1250, there's a really high chance I'll be bringing back a GTS250 for my system tommorow, if maplin don't have any 5770's in stock..

I really hope the best card they got is at least 4850 equivilent +

I don't wanna come home with a 9800GT xD

[bajeatu11]

hey i have 2gb ram @1333 mhz, engts 250 and amd atlon II x3 @2,9 ghz can i play max settings?

[LookanIndian]

probably, ya. ur cpu might bring u down a bit, but u'll be good

[iSmileFX]

Never got to see the thorough review lol and i requested this video on my old account :D

[iSmileFX]

Also what is your FPS like in dal?

[lightningpete]

@LookanIndian dont talk crap. He has a triple core clocked above the recommended allowance of WOW.... He wont have any problems at all with his setup..

[ivansegos]

@LookanIndian I have a AMD Athlon ll x3 440 @ 3GHz

It's not a bad CPU AT ALL!!!!

in fact, it's extremely fast for the price also you can unlock a 4th core if your motherboard supports it

[lightningpete]

ehh benchmark for world of warcraft? thats just stupid. An 8400 GS laptop card can play this game on full without AA/AF. @1650x1080. So whats the point?

[FireStrike325]

and have 10FPS in raids ? Yea good idea :)

[bajeatu11]

@lightningpete lol maybe at pretbc...but now wow is a pretty tough game lad -.-

[lightningpete]

@bajeatu11 tough game? what in terms of graphics? Hmm... i think you wow'ers need to go and get some harder games.... ARMA2, Crysis, Crysis:Warhead... then you'll see whats tough. And again an 8400GS on a laptop will be ample even for raids, my brother used his old laptop to do so, and it worked fine, he capped his FPS and turned on triple buffering etc and turned down the draw distance a little bit, but most settings remained high. He had an average FPS of 31, and a minimum of 17.

[lightningpete]

@lightningpete and for the sakes of 17 FPS in a couple of raids is hardly a killer, especially with a ping of less than 50ms near constantly.

The point is, the game is playable on lower hardware, wow did this intentionally to attract more customers. You will find that most people playing wow will actually have low end graphics cards and low-mid range cpu's

[ivansegos]

@bajeatu11 8months down the line, even more demanding XD

[ivansegos]

@lightningpete It's true, I had ridiculous frames on my 8400GS with a crappy Pentium D 820

but things have changed now.. sunshafts greater view distance and liquids and shadows.. 8400gs is far from maxing WoW

[switchke]

if you wanna see how good the card is. Run through dalaran to see. I know even good cards drop fps but it should be at least fluent.

[znoozaros]

I have HD 5870 and i'm getting ~30fps in dala so GPU alone ain't rly helping in dala

[LapisGarter]

What's your processor?

That's probably why you suffer significant FPS drop w/ Fraps.

[LookanIndian]

ya i have a pentium, i just noticed that too haha, im getting a new cpu soon tho

[IamTheRealSolidSnerk]

I based my rap video on you.

[TechSmurfMedia]

Great graphics. Not that into the whole WoW but that makes it look awesome!

:-)

[Iwebguru]

FirstComment! Nice by the way