Help with my WoW settings

[Cicida]

Needing to use this because during spikes of activity (like boss mechanics in mythic raids) making my fps drop to single digits. (wow is cpu heavy especially with addons which are non negotiable)
CPU - 5600x ryzen
ram - 3600mhz vengeance 32gb
gpu - 1060 6gb
ryzen master - control mode default, curve optimizer off
Monitor resolution - two monitors, 1920x1200 (16:10)
Graphics settings - render scale 100%, everything disabled (vertical sync, low latency mode, anti aliasing, all graphics settings to lowest, texture filtering bilinear, ambient occlusion fidelity FXCACAO, resample point, vrs disabled, graphics api directx 11, all compatibility settings on ( optional gpu features, async resource creation, multithreaded rendering, frame overlap, advanced work submit)

Been trying to fix this for ages and i'm getting nowhere.
The main addons that could be adding to the impact, are plater (nameplates with scripts and mods), and weakauras (scripts) that both use up cpu resources.
What tends to happen is during those sudden spikes of encounter mechanics, my fps drops to the floor (0-5fps) and slowly levels out to 15.

Is there some sort of trick I can use with this software to fix my problem? There is supposedly an issue in wow where if you use lower render scale then your cpu takes a hit, so i thought maybe using a lower resolution and then scaling it up with lossless scaling.. i dont know.
Thanks in advance.

[Gizzmoe]

A WoW forum would be a better place to ask for help.. All LS can do for you is to bring those 15fps to 30/45/60fp. That won't look good, but maybe is better than nothing.

[dinaru]

I have never heard of this scaling cpu bug in WoW, but if it is really a thing you can run WoW in a smaller window (say, 720p) and then scale it up to 1080p with LS.

There are CPU monitoring addons for WoW that you can use to figure out exactly which addon is misbehaving, weakauras itself should also have a profiler somewhere. The 5600X is good enough to maintain at least 60 FPS on all fights in the game, though you don't mention View Distance - WoW has something ♥♥♥♥♥ going on there, so dropping it will help you a lot outside of Raids (or maybe in raids, I haven't touched this expansion, but usually raids are very contained and don't exactly have anything that would be rendered by view distance anyway).

Anyway, for you to have CPU FPS issues on a 5600X, old as it may be, it means 100% a bad addon. Weakauras are generally made by people who are not even coders, so they tend to take a brute force approach to solving the issues. Plater profiles, specially the youtuber ones, are usually made in about the same way - someone who is not tech-savvy who's just trying to get things done, and they don't really care if the game drops to 10 FPS, because they play as work instead of for fun, so they wouldn't mind even if the game was ASCII, so long as it gave them an edge.

You say addons are "non negotiable", but there are usually alternatives that do the job in a way more optimized way. KuiNameplates does a lot of Plater does, sans easy configuration, with essentially zero performance impact. Most of what you get through WeakAuras will have a standalone addon that's also more performant. Both Plater and WeakAuras suffer from making addon-making too easy and this results in people who should not be making addons making addons that perform badly.

WeakAuras can be well made and perform well, they just usually aren't, so it's best to simply not pick anything unless you absolutely can't afford not to, and if you're going to pick something, picking the version that does the one thing you need and nothing else tends to be better.