Has anyone tried Eboostr to improve performance?

[Nitro]

I 5 box on one machine and im looking for solutions to reduce my zone in time other than converting to a 64bit OS.

Someone pointed me in the direction of http://www.eboostr.com/ to help reduce the load on my page file as I im building up a heavy one. Anyone else tried this?



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[Sanctume]

Just open Windows Media Player. Play nothing there, and minimize. It works.

[Diamndzngunz]

Just open Windows Media Player. Play nothing there, and minimize. It works.That is a load of bull. Me and my roommates all tried this and nothing happened.

[Mith]

Just open Windows Media Player. Play nothing there, and minimize. It works.That is a load of bull. Me and my roommates all tried this and nothing happened.

Then how do you explain so many others having success doing this?This trick is dependant on running WinXP 32bit to my knowlege. Vista/XP64 users will see no difference.

[Sanctume]

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=1739394019&sid=1&pageNo=1


1. Exit WoW if you're on
2. Open Windows Media Player
3. Start up WoW
4. Enjoy faster loading times

Works for me, but according to that thread, not everyone. Some people even got Latency and FPS increases. If you get a benefit, please post your comp specs and maybe we can see a trend.

Athlon 3200
2 GB ram
GeForce 7600GT
Windows XP

"Someone supposedly knows a Microsoft Engineer who says something about MMCSS priority and how WMP is the only program with it. It forces a certain timing scenario to occur with processor instructions and causes a marked improvement in WoW."

***

" Fast forward to Windows XP.

There's a windows timer function that lets you modify the rate at which the internal clock runs basically xBegin and XEnd API's.

Basically you're telling Windows XP don't wait for these timeouts to update our application events - do them as fast as you possibly can. If you have a fast cpu, you'll see improvements, if you have a low end to moderate cpu, you may see performance decrease. You're basically telling windows "update all my shit now all the time and don't wait." and because of that, your system is working more and harder.

Now the reason this works when you load things like windows media player or any other application that needs to run in realtime is the API of the application is taking over the entire system scheduler of your computer and you're using the method it needs. Since it's bad if audio or video stops, pauses, or skips - they almost always use XBegin and xEnd API's- as a result, if you're running a game you're going to get the benefits of it.

So, don't bother registering for pandora, load up Windows Media Player, minimize it and enjoy."

[Lost Ninja]

Um wasn't this the Nagel algorithm thing that has since been removed from the game?

[zanthor]

Here's my opinion of REadyboost (The eBooster is just readyboost from Vista for XP)...

I work for a mid sized company and have a lot of resources at my disposal... I've plugged 15 different flash devices/memory devices/removable drives/etc into my Vista machine, and each one asks me to improve my windows performance, I tell it to do it, and each one then tells me that the device doesn't meet the standard to improve my performance. Each of these flash devices is from a different manufacturer ranging from 1gb to 4gb and all are USB2.0 on USB2.0 compliant hardware...

So... I've not found a thumb drive that works for this yet, and I've got a fair bit of resources available...

[zanthor]

As for why so many people on the wow forums say Windows Media Player improves their performance...

McDonalds has sold a billion burgers, but it doesn't make them healthy or good.

[kadaan]

The WMP "fix" was legit, and afaik has since been added into the default WoW client.

The fix only worked with 32-bit XP SP2 with WMP 9+ (10+?)

It only affected initial WoW startup and loading time, not zoning or performance once loaded afaik.

[Lost Ninja]

The WMP hack was for the Nagel Algorithm (or something similar) ready boost is an entirely different thing.

[Kopitar]

Here's my opinion of REadyboost (The eBooster is just readyboost from Vista for XP)...

I work for a mid sized company and have a lot of resources at my disposal... I've plugged 15 different flash devices/memory devices/removable drives/etc into my Vista machine, and each one asks me to improve my windows performance, I tell it to do it, and each one then tells me that the device doesn't meet the standard to improve my performance. Each of these flash devices is from a different manufacturer ranging from 1gb to 4gb and all are USB2.0 on USB2.0 compliant hardware...

So... I've not found a thumb drive that works for this yet, and I've got a fair bit of resources available...

I had some initial problems with getting this to work, but i was using kind of older usb memory sticks, went out and got 1 that was certified for vista boost and it worked no problem, i have not noticed much of a performance boost though.

[aetherg]

The Nagle algorithm is a networking thing. Basically, WoW used to save up packets of data up to a certain amount, then transmit them all at once. This uses less bandwidth, since the data can be compressed better, and there's less wasted space to begin with. However, it takes longer for that first packet to reach the server, because it's waiting for more to gather up before WoW decides it's time to send them all. Disabling the Nagle algorithm means it always sends stuff right away, which increases the bandwidth used by the game, but reduces latency.

The WMP trick is different; it deals with CPU scheduling and how much time Windows spends running WoW. It did actually work, but as far as I know it doesn't matter anymore.