Tamsiel --
I am absolutely not disputing that you're experiencing FPS drops because I know for a fact they are occurring. What bothers me is that I cannot duplicate your assertion that without nUI enabled you are experiencing no FPS drops.
If I disable ALL mods I am seeing frame rates swing between 24fps and 85fps doing NOTHING except walking around the woods... no spells casting, no cooldowns, etc. Just the plain vanilla WoW UI and being outdoors.
I will agree that the frame rates are lower with nUI enabled than without, but it would be impossible for them not to be lower as there's no way to write a complete UI and not have it use more CPU than not having it. But I just cannot for the life of me find frame rate dips in nUI that don't exist in the default Bliz UI.
All the same, please know I am doing everything I can to continue to reduce nUI's impact on the CPU and GPU wherever possible... and any all input that helps pinpoint particular actions or events that reliably cause FPS drops will be most appreciated.
Check out these two screencaps of just the Bliz UI with no mods noting that neither is the highest or lowest frame rates I saw walking around, they're just representative. The third screencap is just nUI loaded in the same area...
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Last edited by spiel2001 : 01-22-09 at 06:03 PM.
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