does anyone play WoW (World of warcraft) on envy 15?

I am strongly considering buying the envy 15 because I like how it looks and it seems pretty good at games.

Does anyone play WoW on it? I am curious what the framerates are like @ native res in dalaran, in raids, and in BGs

Thanks!

 

well... the envy 15 has a very powerful GPU, either the 5830 or the 4830. Either way, the frame rates should be very high, even at high resolutions. I cannot give exact fps, but I can say that it will run pretty much every game you throw at it in high settings, except for probably, Crysis.

 

Well, it does depend on the screen resolution chosen during configuration. the 5830 is a strong dx11 GPU, but it's not exactly a top-tier, " Xtreeeme Gaaamer" GPU. At the upgraded 1920x1080 screen resolution, it'll run most games on medium (or even occasionally high) settings with a perfectly acceptable frame rate.

Specifically, WoW plays beautifully on the Envy, even in traditionally sticky game locations. Look at the notebookcheck review of the 4830 for very comparable results.

 

thanks for the feedback. I do plan on getting the 1920x1080 res and was a little bit worried about the slowdown due to memory bandwidth of the GPU. I like to play wow on max settings, but no AA and no shadows.

as much as it pains me, I think I'll wait till someone gets their hands on the first i5/5830 model in late january to hear first impressions before i bite the bullet.

it sounds like the gaming capacity should be sufficient for me though.

 

Absolutely, it's a smart idea. I jumped on it the other day due to the current $300 discount via coupon, but there'll surely be other deals as well.

 

I couldnt wait, just pulled the plug and bought the envy 15 with the i5 540M/4gb/1920x1080 glossy

 

I play WoW full 1920x1080 everything maxed out and I averaged about 30fps in choppy areas and more everywhere else. This was with the 4830gpu, I'm waiting to see how well it will work on the 5830 which i'm receiving in my replacement notebook.

 

Considering the 4830 has 640 stream processors and the 5830 has 800, and the other specs should be near the same, I'd say you should see increase performance.

 

I cant wait

 

WoW only use single thread though. It will perform poorly on quad i7. I really wish there's i7 620m envy 15. It is actually self pined to only first 2 logic processor on i7.

 

Actually, wow does support multi core:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1778017311&sid=1&pageNo=1

 

Interesting, too bad I have already returned my dell xps 16 with i720m due to poor performance. I thought wow is smart enough to auto detect multicores and pin to 2 seperated physical process.

 

WoW ran well even on my W3J... with a C2D T7200 2.0GHz processor and x1600 256mb ^^;;

I'm sure the envy would blow the holy bejeezus out of WoW.

 

Even though this thread's last post is around a month old I'm going to add my experience with running WoW on an Envy (2nd Gen - Core i7).

I prefer smooth frame rates rather than eye candy but there is a limit to what I find acceptable in looks and viewing range.

In the old world I can max everything with AA on (ok, maybe not shadows... haven't tested since I kind of prefer the old ones anyway, call it old habits). But the old world is quite irrelevant except for leveling up some alts.

My settings as it is now:

- 1680x1050 resolution played in windowed mode on external monitor
- no AA
- AF set to between min and mid
- both texture sliders to max
- viewing distance set to the one right next after middle
- terrain detail max
- environmental settings to medium
- both ground clutter really low, second to min
- spell detail max
- weather detail max

With this I'm having vsync frame rates (60fps) in most of Northrend though I have tested with it off at some locations.

In some areas that are a bit heavier on the computer like Grizzly Hills the frame rate is around 70-80 though can rarely drop to around 55. Flying around in Icecrown it is around 80-90.

In Dalaran I usually get a fram rate around 30. If there are REALLY crowded it can go down to 20 or so.

5-man dungeons it usually is at constant 60 except when there's loads of particle effects on the screen for some reason, or if the camera goes behind anything transparent. In 10m raids during boss fights it usually is around 50 but can go lower. I usually set down particle density to minimum here.

In 25-man raids I need to set down particle density and I usually have frame rates around 30. It can ofc go lower than that but seldom go below 20. Having particle effects on max though it can go down to 12-13 or so. Note: I have only raided 25m with the game in full screen on my external monitor and not windowed like all other things mentioned.

I haven't tried to raid with the GPU overclocked but have played an whole evening with it at 550/1100 and I saw around a 5 fps increase in Dalaran and in Grizzly Hills (leveling up an alt there atm, hence so many tests there =) I had it more steady at 60.

With the GPU overclocked I saw the temps max at around 68C but averaged around 62. Not too shabby I guess and it was very stable.

Remember, this was with running the game in windowed mode at a slightly lower resolution. I have ofc played the game on the Envy's screen and running it in full screen mode I'll say the fps is somewhat comparable to the above.

 

Fantastic impression. Thanks a lot

 

What speed i7 do you have?

 

I have the only one available here in Sweden, the 720QM.

Some more observations...

Yesterday I did some more 25-man raiding in ICC (Blood Princes and Valrithia) with the same settings as above (with particle density at min, full screen mode) and while not being in any combat it was steady at vsync, 60 fps. During combat (with everyone nuking and being on screen at the same time) it would usually be at ~30 fps with some small dips now and then.

One thing though that bothered me was that it kind of stuttered when turning the camera. Like quarter of a second of very high frame rate, then quarter of a second with it a bit lower, then back to smooth, alternating. Not sure really why it was like that. When I played on my old desktop, even though the frame rates generally was lower, turning was more even.

Before yesterday's raid I did update my drivers to the preview 10.3 and I might have forgotten to turn off PowerPlay if it set it back on. I also did try to play (for an hour or so) with the drivers overclocked to 550/1100. What was strange was that the AMD GPU Tool reported my clocks to the newly set amount, but everytime I turned it off to default it reported my GPU clock to 199MHz and the memory to a lower than normal frequenzy as well.

GPU temps never exceeded 63.5C during the whole evening.