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Low WoW Frame Rates

I built a PC based on one you had in one of your issues—an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9250X on an Asus ROG Zenith Extreme X399 mobo, with 32GB RAM, and a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti WindForce—and I can’t figure out why I’m getting low FPS while standing in town in World of Warcraft. I get around 30–40fps in town, yet in raids I hit around 90fps, which is weird. I’ve installed AMD Master and have switched it to eight cores, which delivers a few more FPS, believing that WofW’s last update, which supports multicore, would fix the issue.

Any ideas on what is going on with my AMD build? I usually stick with Intel, but figured I’d try AMD as it’s so highly rated.

Jason Benson

It’s well known that WoW’s age now counts against it. The engine has traditionally failed to make use of

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