Settings for World of Warcraft

[crsgardner]

Can you guys recommend some settings for me? I have the following hardware:

nVidia 6800GT (overclocked to Ultra speed)
Dell 2001fp (1600x1200 default res)

Up until now, I've been playing with all settings at highest, all boxes checked, except Load Detail and the fullscreen "softening effect" (a pixel shader). I've also been using the software cursor, because for some reason my cursor always gets frozen in game otherwise. I generally get 60 fps (vsync enabled for the LCD) in most areas, dipping down to 35 in heavily detailed areas.

With the new patch I'm hearing that "Antialiasing and the full screen softening effect" now work together. Why anyone would necessarily want both running at the same time, I'm not sure.

I tried the pixel shader and everything has a healthy glow. I lose about 5 fps. World of Warcraft has no in-game antialiasing settings (as far as I can tell), so I went out to the nVidia profile dialog. I've tried setting antialiasing up to 8x (turning off application control) and I honestly don't see much of a difference.

What would you guys recommend setting for my hardware?

 

[crsgardner]

Thoughts? Anyone?

 

[Genx87]

I run it at 1792X1220 I believe with everything on high but I disabled those soft shaders as it seemed to blur the game for me and looked terrible. I only have a 6800GT at stock and generally get 40-65fps.

 

[Rage187]

I have the exact same setup, 2001fp and a 6800gt, I run 16x12 4AA 8AS, I do not use the fullscreen glow effect you are mentioning. I see no jaggies btw.

 

[imported_MooGoo]

I have a 6800 GT OC as well. I run WoW at 1600x1200 all details max -glow. I've found that the glow effect adds more jaggies and produces an image that looks like it was renderd on a much lower resolution. I generly get 60fps however when rotating over a detailed landscape such as a town or city the frame rate drops. I find this annoying. The only way I've been able to prevent it is to lower the distance level slider. However I think one of the cool things in world of warcraft is to gaze over the pretty landscapes. Things in WoW look much better from a distance than up close.

 

[crsgardner]

How do you enable AA? I don't see that in the settings.

 

[AnnoyedGrunt]

X800XL

Running 1600x1200, everything max except distance which is set to about 3/4 or so. ATI drivers are set to "balanced" or whatever the middle setting is called.

Always very smooth, probably around 40-60 FPS. There are a couple places where things slow down, but that's mainly due to the loading of characters. Big PvP battles are decently smooth.

Also have 1GB RAM and A64 3200+

I think the amount of RAM makes a huge difference when flying on a bird.

-D'oh!