Great Penny Arcade about what a PC gamer will do to increase FPS

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#1 saruman354
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Anyone ever done something similar to this? I know that if I don't think a game is running as well as it should I will work my butt off to make sure it performs better. Also, here is a link to the original site

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#2 KillerJuan77
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What game was he playing? Metro 2033, GTA IV, Cryostasis?

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#3 LordRork
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Not to that degree. I originally overclocked my 5770 to increase the frame rate on JC2. I think it increased by 2-3fps, which was enough to smooth out the problems I was having.

I then bought a 2nd 5770...

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#4 ManiacKawaii
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What game was he playing? Metro 2033, GTA IV, Cryostasis?

KillerJuan77

I recognise that text anyday despite I'm not playing WoW anymore

so yh it's WoW

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#5 anolecrabcf
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My watch can play WoW at 24 FPS

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#6 ionusX
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My watch can play WoW at 24 FPS

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lol my scientific calculator can do 30fps stabily in org.!

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#7 ChubbyGuy40
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Sadly I see this comic as true...for WoW since it does have WoW's FPS counter.

Even with a good computer I get **** for FPS almost everywhere. How people are geting 60+ FPS, especially in raids, is beyond me.

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#8 ionusX
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Sadly I see this comic as true...for WoW since it does have WoW's FPS counter.

Even with a good computer I get **** for FPS almost everywhere. How people are geting 60+ FPS, especially in raids, is beyond me.

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first of all WoW favours nvidia cards its unintentional but it is very real

iit doesnt like cpu's with anything over a tri core.. quad and up is a bad idea..

finally WoW has no support for cfx/sli/hydra or hrbird sli/cf it also has no support for dual gpu's

WoW best runs on any intel dual core cpu or core i7 970 or 980x or 990x with any gpu from the gf 9000, gtx 200, gtx 400 or gtx 500 series.

wow also hates cards dx9 compatible going back dx10 is fine but 9 is a bad idea... (so nothing gf7000 series or older)

its a very narrow area to play around with and only a handful fit into that slot.

ive seen WoW benchmarks and i assure every word is true..

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#9 broken_bass_bin
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I'm not that bad.

If I'm seeing less than 25 fps, I'll usually do what I can to speed things up. But I won't spend hours modding and patching and optimizing and overclocking to increase my framerate by a massive 2fps.