World of Warcraft - Battlegrounds - Choppy FPS

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So, i’ve installed WoW through Lutris and have it running very well - around 100 fps - except in battlegrounds. I’m assuming a raid environment would be similar to BG’s. When I get into combat with a lot of players at once I only see one frame every second or two it seems like. I’m seeing if anybody else has this issue, whether they resolved it or not, and if so how?

I’m currently running on an MSI laptop running Antergos, NVidia GTX 970m, and intel i7 4710HQ. I’m only running nvidia drivers since bumblebee and lutris with wow don’t play nice together, or so I was told.

My first time posting here (or any linux forum) and just joined 15 minutes ago, so if I’m doing something wrong feel free to berate me until I scream for my mother, but please let me know what I’m doing wrong so I won’t do it again in the future.

Thanks!

Edit - I think I resolved the issue! I had tinkered with the raid/bg graphics as mentioned by users in the comments, but to no avail.

What ended up helping tremendously was playing with the runner options in Lutris. The runner option for WINE that Lutris set up during the WOW installation was esync-staging-pba-3.16, but that did not work for me for some reason. I had been running on wine staging-3.20 instead.

I checked to see other runners via Lutris>Manage Runners>Wine - Manage Runners and saw that there was a newer version of the default installed runner - esync-staging-pba-3.18. Before in heavy raid/bg environments the game was completely unplayable. Now I have the settings turned down a bit, but it plays well otherwise.

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set your video settings to low for raids / bgs. All the effects from the 40+ PCs just kills pretty much any system. It’s not really a linux issue, I’ve seen the slowdown on a very high end 1080ti windows system as well.

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I also agree with jdfthetech’s comments, though wanted to add this:

WoW tends to be more single core CPU intensive than GPU intensive, though I believe patch 8.1 will be improving this somewhat by introducing multi-threading. I have sli’d 1080tis and still have to reduce my settings in raids and bgs. I recommend reducing some of the more fancy graphics options like sunshafts, ssao, particle density, and then once everything else is turned down, slowly reducing the draw distance. WoW provides the option of saving a profile for raids/bgs versus normal world, so I’d use that to ensure that you can quest, murder and loot in glorious graphical fidelity (some slight sarcasm on those last two words).

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Battlegrounds has been choppy on wine for years. Theres not much to be done about it for the most part.

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You can find a range of guides, tutorials, and practice matches to help you get familiar with the PvP system.