How to: Increase FPS

**Aeragan** · by **Aeragan** on Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:49 am

So I know a lot of you out there don't have the greatest gaming comp money can buy. I also know that you want more performance from your comp for playing wow and 15-20 FPS just isn't cutting it. Well if that's you then this guide is just what you need to get some where from 15-40 FPS increase depending on your comp. So lets get started already!

Ok so first is first, we need to be able to see if a file is a .bat .txt .exe and so on. To do this we need to go to the Start Menu and open it. then open My Computer or for a Vista computer, click on Tools and look in the drop down menu for Folder Options and click that. You should have three tabs at the top. Click on the View tab. In the Advance Settings window scroll down until you see [bHide extensions for known file types. Uncheck it, if already unchecked leave as is. Hit Apply and then OK.

Now if you make a file you can see what type of file it is. This is going to come in handy later in this Guide.

Now open your WoW Folder and leave it open. For me my WoW Folder is located in C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\ but for you it is most likely C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\

Now open a new Notepad.

In Notepad wright this as follows:

@echo off
cd /d "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft"
start /high Wow.exe

If your WoW Folder is located some where else than Program Files just replace
"C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft"
with the path to your WoW Folder.

Example: cd /d "C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft"

Now close Notepad and when it ask you to save click yes and save it to your Desktop as WoW.bat

Locate WoW.bat.txt on your Desktop and rename it to WoW.bat

Drag and drop the file you just made into your WoW Folder
Right click on WoW.bat and click Send To and then Desktop (Create Shortcut)
Right click the shortcut you just made and click Properties.
Click Change Icon and click Browse and find your Launcher.exe in your WoW Folder and use the icon.
Now rename your WoW.bat Shortcut to World of Warcraft or WoW or what ever you prefer.

Now double click the shortcut and if you did everything right it should open WoW to the log in screen. Now log in and you should load everything A LOT faster and have your frames increased.
To see your frame rates use Ctrl + R

Also, I suggest that while in-game you open your Video Options and uncheck Vertical Sync to dramatically increase your FPS

If this did not increase your frames at all then your computer can not run WoW any higher than what it already is.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask away.
-Aera.[/b]