Fps drop outs

[suicidesspyder]

Anyone else having a problem with fps dropping out in northrend. I mean one minute sitting pretty at 34-40 fps then the next second im down below 5. I have no idea if its just me or not thats why i am asking if anyone else has an idea how to fix this thanks.

[sturat]

I've found that recently my fps is sitting around 5-10 all the time in northrend but for some reason it's not going over 15 even in the old world.

Of course I also just discovered that the fan on my laptop doesn't appear to be working so that might account for it.

STU

[suicidesspyder]

i hate it its like i leave here goto bc or pre bc and no problems wow blizzard killed it with wotlk lol. I also dropped down to one char maximized all settings and didnt get over 15 fps but when in bc and pre bc got 50+ hmmm. Im beggining to wonder if i just had the same specs i have now with just a quad core would change that.

[welwyn]

also noticed this happen a lot. i've had to result to turning all settings right down to minimum, all effects off and then running 800 x 600. its not pretty but it is at least playable. however i 4 box on 32 bit XP 4 gig ram, ( i think 32 bit only lets me have 3 though? ) 3.6 intel dual core cpu. before wotlk i could box 4 with almost full effects at native resolution for my monitor at around 30 fps for my 3 mini's and 70-80 fps on the mains. now its 15 max mini's and 60 max on main with all effects off.

[weeep]

Yes, it happens sometimes. The weird thing is that there is no HDD activity when fps drops down, CPU load is around 50-70% and there is plenty of free RAM, so my guess is that it is related to graphics card. Probably video RAM overflow or smth like this. I found that minimising all your WoW windows and restoring them back helps, though sometimes I have to do it twice.

[mikekim]

i found that my 4 slaves fps dropped about 50% down to 30fps from 60 after the recent patch updates.
to solve the problem I set the minimum and maximum framerates on keyclone to 60, and now its back to 60 fps on each

[cmeche]

I can run 5 toons in the old world easily....Outlands is a little spotty. But for Northrend, the max is 4 toons and they stay at a horrid fps. I can run all five to do UK though, I guess Instances are not as graphic intensive vs outside an instance.

[suicidesspyder]

An are all you using multiple comps or quad core. I also found out asking around people with one computer are getting this problem too. So i guess its not that bad if i can still manage to play 5 but is it frustrating.

[Golle]

In my opinion you should lower your maxfpsbk to as low as you possibly can. On my computer my alts looses follow with maxfpsbk 4. With maxfpsbk 5 it is no problem but they have issues if I want to type with all of the chars. But a maxfpsbk above 10 is simply useless in my opinion so you could gain quite a lot of performance there.