interesting, may i know what your cpu and ram was ? also were you running wow at 1440x900?
Am certainly sure she is using an updated ati driver. I am really interested to know how you can get 30-40fps. Hopefully this will help my gf out a little.

Thanks

Me lieky your monitor ..

Since patch 2.3, my fps has been suffering horribly.  I'm not sure if it's due to the patch, or my computer dying.

In Mt Hyjal first 3 bosses, the waves are disconnecting me from game.  As a tank, I buried myself deep in a fray of mobs, aoe tanking, while spells, npcs and players filled my screen.  My fps then dips to around 14-17, my latency increases from 500ms average to 700-1000ms.  Then my screen freezes and I'm booted to login screen.

Logging back in doesn't work unless I get kicked out from the raid - due to UI load times out.  Getting kicked out of the raid often lets me back into the instance where i can continue the fight after a raid invite.  If my screen doesn't load fast enough, I'd miss the invite and auto port out.

I've tried:

i. disabling some high mem usage uis like recount, assessment, auctioneer,
ii. totally removed bartender, defaulting back to blizzard UI,
iii kept only essential UIs still used like scl, prat, deadlybossmod. 
iv. tried lowering my video settings, except spell details.
v. updated nvidia video drivers
vi. updated windows vista.

I'm running out of ideas.

My spec:
intel dual core 2.13
Nvidia 8800 GTS
2gig mem
80gig hdd
streamyx 1mb via router.
24" Dell widescreen running max resolution window mode.

Any help here greatly appreciated.

It is normal that when you step into Hyjal, your fps decreases significantly when the trash waves appear and even more so when your hunters kite a mob to bring in other npcs like jaina or thrall/taurens. However it's of course not normal to be disconnected. Quaza above has already mentioned some stuff which you could look through, but one thing that you can look into is your network card configuration. That was the one that made me disconnect tonnes whenever I had an overload of information and after making the change as posted in blizz's forum, it was solved.

This is what I have gathered from the blizzard technical support. I was using an Asus Mobo, so the settings might be a lil different but this is pretty much the gist of it:

1. Go to "Start" > "Control Panel".
2. Double click to open "Network Connections".
3. Right click on your network adapter and go to properties (should be labeled as "NVIDIA nForce Ethernet Controller").
4. Click on "Configure" and go to the "Advanced" tab.
5. Select "Checksum Offload" or "Hardware Checksum" and choose disable in the window to the right.
6. Select "Speed and Duplex" or "Media Type" and select "Force 100 full duplex" (Note: if you lose internet connectivity, select "Force 10 full duplex")
7. Click on Ok.

You may also need to delete your entire WDB folder (located in the World of Warcraft directory) and test the game. The cached files in this folder are occasionally known to cause this issue, and their deletion may immediately fix the problem. However, unless totally necessary, dont do this coz you will have to redo your macros/keybindings and all which might take some time.

Last but not least, dont play in windows mode unless really necessary. Your fps will increase significantly with your full-screen play.

hmm im using vista so that little network setting is a little confusing to me.

As for WDB, WDB doesn't do anything noticeable. Did you mean WTF?

Hmm...hey guys. I'm having FPS issues as well. In some areas  I have 75-80fps. Then others I can drop to 29fps or lower even in shattrath. I dont know what seems to be the problem.

I'm running @ 1024x768 resolution with the settings on mid-level and some on low.

PC Specs:
Win xp
3.2ghz dual core intel
2gb ram
160gb hdd
winfast 8600GT x 256mb (just upgraded from 7300LE)
19" dell LCD

My nvidia drivers are the latest from the website.

Help me

yes , there is. called ACP, get from wowaceupdater.

btw, im having this problem.



before the screen appears like SS, there were HEAVY screen tearing, .
updated drivers, cleaned the gfx from dust etc, done reverting old drivers, but no luck,.
when alt-tab, the screen return to normal for about 30secs, then it happens again. 

any idea?

im using ati 9600xt.

hmm...in that case, what should I change in order to make the FPS less jumpy. If i get 60fps constant I'm happy already. Don't need FPS in the 100s

When checking your addons,

1. Turn them off one at a time to find the culprit.
2. If that doesn't work, delete addon folder in WorldofWarcraft/Interface/Addons.
3. If that doesn't work, delete the *.lua file (e.g. for Decursive it's going to be Decursive.lua). It's in the WoW/WTF and WoW/WTF/CharacterName . Best is to use the Windows Search function to look for *.lua files to be deleted.

You can cut it short by deleting the WTF folders but you'll also lose your macro file (usually macros*.txt files, there's alot of them).

4. If that doesn't work, it's probably an incompatibility with another addon or one of the libraries isn't updated. If you're using Ace2-based addon (e.g Cartographer, Omen, BigWigs), use a software named WoWAceUpdater.exe to update these files with Externals option on.

5. If it's already too much of a hassle, delete the entire WTF and Interface/Addons folder and start from scratch. Some of the older addons do not delete the older files which in turn can interfer with the addon that you want on.

Note : The biggest headache whenever a new patch comes out is any addon that makes changes to the UI (User Interface). Example was when patch 2.1 (or was it patch 2.2) came out, it crippled all Bongos and XPerl users. Either the entire WoW interface look weird or there are bizarre buttons popping up here and there.

Note2 : Try to find out where the addon author updates regularly. Example : ItemRack is updated at WoWinterface.com and not regularly at WoW.Curse.com. Although Curse.com is huge, it doesn't mean that it gets the latest updates.

ok my prob solved by downclock the core speed.

but no moar tearing!

thanks quaza for pointing amd tools!