my system memory is lagging out wow as is shared with my new 1080 vram

[Miguel2013]

I was examining why wow wasn't performing to my likes, I have a suspicion is cause the game is using half of it's memory it needs from my slow 1333mhz and the other half from my super fast gpu 1080 balancing it out to the slowest hardware.

How can I make wow use only my gpu vram?

 

[Toothless]

Dude you're using a Phenom. You really expect to fix your "ram" issue by recoding the game to not do what it's supposed to do?

 

[Miguel2013]

Dude you're using a Phenom. You really expect to fix your "ram" issue by recoding the game to not do what it's supposed to do?

the game uses only 20% of cpu so i guess it uses mostly gpu and vram which wow should be happy with. what do you mean in easy English

 

[eidairaman1]

That game would need to be looked at by blizzard for coding. Take any mods off the game

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

the game uses only 20% of cpu so i guess it uses mostly gpu and vram which wow should be happy with. what do you mean in easy English

You cannot exclusively run wow in Vram, it's not possible, system ram is necessary.
And your systems age may be limiting your game.

 

[Assimilator]

I was examining why wow wasn't performing to my likes, I have a suspicion is cause the game is using half of it's memory it needs from my slow 1333mhz and the other half from my super fast gpu 1080 balancing it out to the slowest hardware.

How can I make wow use only my gpu vram?

Your suspicion is wrong because that is not how games work at all. As @Toothless said your ancient and shitty CPU is one hundred percent the problem (after WoW's ancient and shitty engine).

 

[ir_cow]

I'm sorry to say but after years of WoW updates and expansions, you either needs to run on low settings or get basically a new computer. It doesn't have to be high end. In fact a modern i3 (12100) will crush that Phenom. I have a feeling your CPU is just at the limits and even in WoW you are now fully CPU bound.

 

[eidairaman1]

I'm sorry to say but after years of WoW updates and expansions, you either needs to run on low settings or get basically a new computer. It doesn't have to be high end. In fact a modern i3 (12100) will crush that Phenom. I have a feeling your CPU is just at the limits and even in WoW you are now fully CPU bound.

Is wow even able to use more than 2 cores?

 

[Toothless]

Is wow even able to use more than 2 cores?

Look at OP's history and you'll see he's gonna have no choice but to max out at an i3.

 

[eidairaman1]

Look at OP's history and you'll see he's gonna have no choice but to max out at an i3.

Yes ive dealt with him before lol just unsure if wow can use it because Was thinking even a FX8300 could handle it lolz

 

[Toothless]

Yes ive dealt with him before lol just unsure if wow can use it because Was thinking even a FX8300 could handle it lolz

Phenoms were pretty close to FX for the most part, but being real nothing AM3+ or older is going to be worth it.

 

[eidairaman1]

Phenoms were pretty close to FX for the most part, but being real nothing AM3+ or older is going to be worth it.

I saw some resurgence and from what I can see this guy has very little money and depending on if his mobo can support a FX is unknown lol.

I will eventually be making my current cpu and mobo a test bed for screwing with bios files and have moved onto ddr5, Looking to a Threadripper (I build to last eons lol)

 

[Toothless]

I saw some resurgence and from what I can see this guy has very little money and depending on if his mobo can support a FX is unknown lol.

I will eventually be making my current cpu and mobo a test bed for screwing with bios files and have moved onto ddr5, Looking to a Threadripper (I build to last eons lol)

Honestly, a Haswell i5 would be a huge improvement. Reuse the ram and all that.

 

[ir_cow]

I just said Intel i3. I'm sure a Ryzen 3600 could as well. Find it for $100 and a used MB as well.

 

[Assimilator]

How can he afford a 1080 Ti yet not an i3 FFS?

 

[Vayra86]

I was examining why wow wasn't performing to my likes, I have a suspicion is cause the game is using half of it's memory it needs from my slow 1333mhz and the other half from my super fast gpu 1080 balancing it out to the slowest hardware.

How can I make wow use only my gpu vram?

Improve WoW performance by running as few mods as possible. They push heavily on CPU and thats what you are missing here: single threaded performance. RAM is not the issue.

 

[Miguel2013]

I know my cpu sucks I'm just saying I thought wow would use my graphics card for a great performance from WOW not just other hard core that have past the 1080 for a couple years now that's what I was trying to do is have a good performance on wow and counter strike go and worms!

 

[eidairaman1]

You need to update your system specs

 

[Dr. Dro]

the game uses only 20% of cpu so i guess it uses mostly gpu and vram which wow should be happy with. what do you mean in easy English

That's not how CPU utilization metrics work, if it's using 20-25% on a Phenom II X4, that means that the game only loads one core/thread, not that you are not bottlenecked by the processor.

I'm sorry, but the Phenom is not an adequate processor to play games on anymore, and it's a major bottleneck even for an aging card such as the GTX 1080. You think WoW runs bad, wait until you see the other whole bunch of games that don't even start on it because it doesn't have SSSE3, SSE4.1 or AVX support. Architecturally, it is a gaming processor from the Windows XP days.

 

[eidairaman1]

That's not how CPU utilization metrics work, if it's using 20-25% on a Phenom II X4, that means that the game only loads one core/thread, not that you are not bottlenecked by the processor.

I'm sorry, but the Phenom is not an adequate processor to play games on anymore, and it's a major bottleneck even for an aging card such as the GTX 1080. You think WoW runs bad, wait until you see the other whole bunch of games that don't even start on it because it doesn't have SSSE3, SSE4.1 or AVX support. Architecturally, it is a gaming processor from the Windows XP days.

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@Miguel2013

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You ever think it is your network connection when playing online?

 

[Dr. Dro]

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@Miguel2013

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Phenom II is just a 45 nm shrink of the AMD K10 architecture, dating all the way back to 2007. It was already obsolete back then in relation to Intel's Core 2 and especially the 1st generation Core i7 in relation to instruction set support.

AMD 10h - Wikipedia

Conroe (65 nm Core 2) supported SSSE3, Penryn (45 nm shrink) added SSE4.1 and Sandy Bridge added AVX, none of the AMD contemporaries supported these instruction sets at all until Bulldozer came along. At the time these were not as important as they are today, but with last-gen consoles having instruction parity with the Bulldozer line and the current generation consoles running Zen 2, SIMD optimization is more present than ever and required for most games today.

 

[Miguel2013]

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@Miguel2013

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You ever think it is your network connection when playing online?

thanks for the link. and no cause i got fiber optic 940mbit

 

[eidairaman1]

thanks for the link. and no cause i got fiber optic 940mbit

Remember this another players connectivity may have high ping levels which will make you think your rig has an issue.

 

[Miguel2013]

Remember this another players connectivity may have high ping levels which will make you think your rig has an issue.

mmm then every one would be complaining about lag. i'll switch a multi core seting in bios

 

[kilo]

Your system specs shows 16GB x4 dimms, but taskmgr is seeing 48GB. Is one of your dimms bad?