World of Warcraft Legion - Low FPS during raids- upgrade or wait

[Taur]

Hi all.

My current pc system, https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/qTDVHN, should be powerful enough to run Wow legion at decent, 120 fps in 1440p without an issue and in the most part it can.

Where I run into issues is in raids, my FPS drop from silky smooth 120 plus to 40 ish and the odd time in Dalaran or other high population areas.

In game, I am running with the 7 preset with AA turned well down.

I feel that my i5 at 4.5ghz should not be bottle necking the fury and the fury should be well able for 1440p at 120 in Wow , which is not the most graphically demanding game out there.
I downloaded NZXT CAM and with the overlay, I can see that my GPU is sitting at 100% usage and the CPU at 70% ish. RAM is normally at 4-6GB.

I normally have no open windows in the background and other processes should be at a minimum.
Any suggestions on things to check to see where this issue is arising. I cant afford a massive upgrade at the moment but I can start working towards one at the end of the year if I can get a rough idea of where the issue is.

I do use a good few addons in game but even with these turned off I get these annoying dips in FPS.

Other games, Witcher 3 chugs along, not massively well but in an ok fashion. I haven't checked the FPS but it seems ok. Total War games are normally fine too.

Thanks in advance.

 

[N3rdR4ge]

wow is not particularly demanding, but 1440p and consistently high frame rates in dense areas would absolutely lower your fps. if your gpu is sitting at 100%, that would be your bottleneck. I personally run on 1440p and I can't see using anything less than a 1080. You may just be better off lowering some of your graphics settings since a 1080 is a big cost. Fortunately, you have a pretty nice system so there would be no issues if you did upgrade.

 

[logainofhades]

Heavily populated areas will dip your FPS, no matter what you have, just as an FYI. Shadows on low should help you, in that regard. WoW heavily favors Nvidia, so that AMD GPU is not doing you any favors. Might want to look at the AA options in the tab above vertical sync also. I forget which one, but one of them is quite demanding, iirc.