Warcraft Benchmarks

[Ocellaris]

Warcraft performance gets talked about quite a bit, however it hard to generate good comparison results from it. Here are some simple steps people can run in a couple minutes to get a baseline FPS to compare with others and see how their setup is running.

How to:

1) Disable all of your add ons before logging in
2) Log into an Outlands character
3) Click Options -> Video
4) Click Defaults (this will also reset options you may have set via the command line to outside the slider range)
5) Disable Vertical Sync
6) Set Resolution to 1280x1024 no AA (or just pick what you want and make sure you post it in the results)
7) Set all World Appearance sliders to the far right
8) Click Okay
9) Log out, close WoW, then log in again to have all the settings apply
10) Now get to the flight master in Shattrath
11) Type "/timetest"
12) Talk to the flight master and fly to Cosmowrench in Netherstorm (this is a location both Horde and Alliance can land at)
13) Post results when done. Your min, max, and avg FPS will display in the chat window

 

[Ocellaris]

1280x1024, no AA
Min 30.2
Max 297.5
Avg 154.8

System spec in sig

 

[brnunn]

Minimum FPS 1.961
Maximum FPS 338.246
Average FPS 99.693

Specs:

C2Q 6600 @ 3.0Ghz (333 FSB setting)
4GB DDR2 1066 OCZ Reaper
Asus P5E
256 MB AMD HD3850 PCIexpress 2.0
750gb Samsung Spinpoint F1 32mb cache 7,200 rpm sata 3
windows xp sp3 32bit

 

[risqu3]

im not 70 yet, so i cant do this, if you want i can provide one from tanaris > tbluff

 

[Ocellaris]

im not 70 yet, so i cant do this, if you want i can provide one from tanaris > tbluff

can you get to winterspring? then you could do gadgetzan to the neutral town in winterspring so alliance could reproduce it as well.

 

[SouLXIV]

Minimum FPS 1.961
Maximum FPS 338.246
Average FPS 99.693

Specs:

C2Q 6600 @ 3.0Ghz (333 FSB setting)
4GB DDR2 1066 OCZ Reaper
Asus P5E
256 MB AMD HD3850 PCIexpress 2.0
750gb Samsung Spinpoint F1 32mb cache 7,200 rpm sata 3
windows xp sp3 32bit

where did you get 2 fps?

 

[brnunn]

not sure, was tabbing in and out while the test was running

i am going to run the test later

 

[Ocellaris]

not sure, was tabbing in and out while the test was running

i am going to run the test later

tabbing in and out is not reccomended for good results. it was probably just some hd access loading in new terrain though.

 

[brnunn]

ok i re-ran the benchmark and here are the new numbers (this time not tabbing out 15 times hah)

minimum fps 17.495
maximum fps 300.630
average fps 135.728

I was also thinking that since a lot of people have widescreen monitors we should figure out a good widescreen resolution to use for the test as well as 1280x1024 is pretty much unplayable for me on my 22" Dell widescreen (i play at 1680x1050)

 

[Ocellaris]

ok i re-ran the benchmark and here are the new numbers (this time not tabbing out 15 times hah)

minimum fps 17.495
maximum fps 300.630
average fps 135.728

I was also thinking that since a lot of people have widescreen monitors we should figure out a good widescreen resolution to use for the test as well as 1280x1024 is pretty much unplayable for me on my 22" Dell widescreen (i play at 1680x1050)

Well just listing the resolution you run at is fine. I know 1280x1024 looks like hell on widescreen, however I figure thats the highest resolution that almost everyone can run at.