[tip] questhelper performance

[dRiN]

For those who run questhelper you can drop the calculation on the followers if you depend on your main for route calculation. It is overkill and takes away processor time you only need to use on your main : )

/qh hide

Hides QuestHelper's modification to the minimap and world map, and pauses routing calculations.

[Tizer]

or disable questhelper on your followers since you dont really need it if you main is doing the quests anyway xD

[dRiN]

or disable questhelper on your followers since you dont really need it if you main is doing the quests anyway xDThan you will not track their progress either, and for some quests (collection) this can be handy. And mouseover tooltip won't give follower information either.

And if you use a main that has done most quests already it is nice to use questhelper in this way.

[Ðeceased]

shweet ^^ thx for the tip :)

[Lokked]

I don't even use this on my main anymore, as it uses like 6 or 7 MB memory :/

[pinotnoir]

I dropped quest helper and started using carbonite quest. Its much better.

[Heenan]

Options that I use and find important to multiboxing (for QuestHelper):

/qh perf value
Scales the CPU workload for QuestHelper's route calculation routine. Will accept a number or a percentage, in the range 10-500% (although we don't recommend going above 100%).

/qh share
Toggles objective sharing on and off. When on, will share quest objectives and progress with other party members that are using QuestHelper 0.17 or higher, and also have sharing enabled.

/qh solo
Will disable quest sharing and ignore anyone you might be partied with, basically assume you will receive no aid from your party members.

[dRiN]

I checked out carbonite today too, but it does not have questshare support like questhelper has : )

[Depherios]

I actually run both on my main (carbonite and questhelper) and questhelper on my slaves. The tooltips showing quest progress is a HUGE help, especially with gathering quests.

/qh perf 10% is a big help when QH decides to freak out flash back and forth between two locations... while at the same time saving on CPU overhead yay lol.

[wowphreak]

What helps me tons with questhelper and reduceing the lag is to reduce the route calculation on all the other ones to 20% and keep high on the main.
That way it still tracks all the others quest and what not :P

Only thing that might be kinda annoying is its take a bit longer for it to register when one or more have completed the a quest not that big of a deal.

/qh setting will popup a menu

[dRiN]

What helps me tons with questhelper and reduceing the lag is to reduce the route calculation on all the other ones to 20% and keep high on the main.
That way it still tracks all the others quest and what not :P

Only thing that might be kinda annoying is its take a bit longer for it to register when one or more have completed the a quest not that big of a deal.

/qh setting will popup a menuBy setting /qh hide on your foloower (or press the button questhelper on the map) you will stop route calculation on your followers (they dont have to). But route calculation will continue on your main. So even less stress on the system. That is what I tried to explain with the first post.

The completion of quests is lag between interfacing from alts to main. I believe they are always the same. Even with processing on on the followers.

[bbj]

ok - so /qh hide, stops if from doing calcs and hogging the minimap. what turns it back on ??

Id like to add this into my pip macros so that when i switch mains ( which i do a lot to make collection quests easier ) it switches on the qh of the new main on and switches off all the others

[Depherios]

ok - so /qh hide, stops if from doing calcs and hogging the minimap. what turns it back on ??
/qh hide, turns it back on... oddly enough XD it's a toggle.

[Maxion]

I think the point of questhelper in terms of use by multiboxers has been lost at some point.

The entire point of using is that it tracks your alts! You can manage five characters quest log from your main, even if they are all different. I haven't found another quest-helping type mod that supports this.

If all your quests on all characters match 100%, its no biggie... but even if one gets off, or you miss a pick-up on one character, questhelper (if installed and configured on all WoW instances) WILL save you from leaving one behind.

Now, I haven't heard of carbonite before, so I'm checking that one out now... ;)

EDIT: Wow.. didn't realize carbonite is a subscription based addon. $1 / month is cheap, but still.. subscription for an addon!?! no thx! (there is a free version, but it seems gimped)If you look around their site you will see that the addon Carbonite Quest, is free, you can get it from curse and other sites. the paid one is an extended special edition or something.

But, like questhelper, carbonite used a lot of memory for me, so i use neither.

Nowadays i just use QuestsFu and JasonQuest to track the quests on all my chars.

[bbj]

ok - so /qh hide, stops if from doing calcs and hogging the minimap. what turns it back on ??
/qh hide, turns it back on... oddly enough XD it's a toggle.that just wont work for me...... modifying it

[Carnage]

Just tried carbonite, seems to me like a copy of questhelper with aload of other addons thrown into it. I removed it after 5 minutes of using it, if questhelper was to ever stop being updated then id use carbonite. Im sure either carbonite has ripped questhelper or vise versa, as the text above the arrow is exactly the same. I Dont like addons with loads of stuff i dont need thrown in, i prefer simple things ;) of course if anyone has any arguments to why i should continue using carbonite feel free to tell me :P I may of course have missed something out that is useful ;)

[Depherios]

carbonite's locations are far more accurate (usually) but at the same time, it's pathing is poor (the order it picks to do quests in) and yeah, it has no idea what's going on with your party.

QuestHelper is overall a more helpful addon for completing quests in a timely manner.