Hi all. I had a quick question about my computer specs and playing higher end games on it. I bought this ~a year ago. So it isn't old by any means. From what I'm seeing my computer should be able to handle alot of games at higher settings, but I'm having a few problems. The main games I play is World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, or Battlefield. Warcraft is where I have my main issues. In the actual world if there's alot of trees etc I get a bit of FPS lag, but nothing too serious. Just dropping from 60 FPS to 40-45. But when I get into a 25 man raid. So 25 people along with the graphics of spells, bosses etc it drops immensely to 15-30. When it gets really intense, like when the raid has to stack etc (I don't know if anyone plays it now, but think Ultraxion sub 30% Timeloop) I can get as low as 10. My specs are below and I was just wondering if there was anything specific I'd need to upgrade or if there was a problem. Thanks for any help.
There's two things that should be noted. Number one is I bought from Dell. I know people say this is not a good route to go but one of my buddies gets a 15% discount on everything because of where they work and as I said people told me the rig worked fine for gaming. The other is I was SUPPOSED to get an AMD Radeon 5770 1GB card, but for some reason it was shipped with the 6670. I talked to Dell, and they confirmed it because of the fact that the 5770 drivers would not work and only the 6770 would as well as Manage Computer coming up with "Dell 6700 series). Not sure if that has an impact but I have confirmed that trying to game with the 5770 driver causes it to crash hard. I also have not done anything in terms of modifying performance etc. I know a decent amount about computers, and I assume it's possibly the ram. I was looking to upgrade to 8 GB in the near future, but not before I find out if that's most likely the issue.
Studio XPS 7100 Minitower
Studio Phenom II X4 945 (3.0GHz)
1TB Serial ATA 2 Hard Drive 7200 RPM
4GB DDR3 SDRAM,1333MHz- 2X2GB
Windows 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
AMD Radeon 6700 series (6770), Internal DAC 400MHz, 2806 MB (Through DxDiag).
Thanks again for any help.
There's two things that should be noted. Number one is I bought from Dell. I know people say this is not a good route to go but one of my buddies gets a 15% discount on everything because of where they work and as I said people told me the rig worked fine for gaming. The other is I was SUPPOSED to get an AMD Radeon 5770 1GB card, but for some reason it was shipped with the 6670. I talked to Dell, and they confirmed it because of the fact that the 5770 drivers would not work and only the 6770 would as well as Manage Computer coming up with "Dell 6700 series). Not sure if that has an impact but I have confirmed that trying to game with the 5770 driver causes it to crash hard. I also have not done anything in terms of modifying performance etc. I know a decent amount about computers, and I assume it's possibly the ram. I was looking to upgrade to 8 GB in the near future, but not before I find out if that's most likely the issue.
Studio XPS 7100 Minitower
Studio Phenom II X4 945 (3.0GHz)
1TB Serial ATA 2 Hard Drive 7200 RPM
4GB DDR3 SDRAM,1333MHz- 2X2GB
Windows 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
AMD Radeon 6700 series (6770), Internal DAC 400MHz, 2806 MB (Through DxDiag).
Thanks again for any help.