Major LAG during PVP and entering city

[nofancyname]

Hello All,

I need some advice on getting better performance.

I currently run 5 WoW accounts on one PC and have no problems when doing instances but if I try to enter PvP I lag so bad that I'm dead before the lag clears up.

My PC is a Dell DUO Core 2.16 Ghz with 2 gig of ram, the video card is NVIDA Quadro FX 350 M with 512 ram

Any suggestions on what I can add or change to reduce the lag becuase I would love to try arean but currently that is impossible. I don't want to buy 5 new PCs so any suggestions for upgrading my current PC would be great

A little background on what I run.

Team 1. Pally, Priest, Mage, Mage, Lock (I can also run, Pally Priest, Mage X3 or Pally, Priest, Mage, Lock x 2

I use the above team for 5 man instances.

Team 2. Priest and 4 mages, I use this team to AOE farm.



Thanks all.

[Poolboy]

I'm totally the wrong person for tech help, but I've been bored grinding and I'm lurking here all aft ~

You have your sound disabled on all 5 clients? (or at least the 4 clone clients like me?)

You have settings lowered to bare min then increase as you see fit until you find lag?

Again, I'll let someone else answer hardware questions, sorry =/

[Gallo]

Question for the OP:

Does each client have its own WoW folder? Or are you running all clients out of 1 WoW folder?

[nofancyname]

Question for the OP:

Does each client have its own WoW folder? Or are you running all clients out of 1 WoW folder?


Each WoW account has its own folder.

I have turned off audio for all accounts, and have already tuned down all the settings to close to the bare min.

[zanthor]

Add more ram. 5 clients takes just over 2.5GB of ram. You can probably run 3 flawlessly and start to see a performance hit at 4 and really feel it at 5.

[Gallo]

Question for the OP:

Does each client have its own WoW folder? Or are you running all clients out of 1 WoW folder?


Each WoW account has its own folder.

I have turned off audio for all accounts, and have already tuned down all the settings to close to the bare min.

Try running all the WoWs from 1 Folder. I switched to this after using 5 separate folders and it made a HUGE difference. I used to experience the lag you describe.

[mackenziemi]

So would you still make copies of the executable file? or just run another copy of the instance of the exe?

[Gallo]

So would you still make copies of the executable file? or just run another copy of the instance of the exe?

I run all 5 instances of WoW from the same .exe

[Anozireth]

The bottom line here is that 2GB of RAM is just not enough for 5 clients. There is nothing that will make as big a difference as adding another 2GB (even if you can only get 3.X of that).

[Diamndzngunz]

It's not just needing more ram, go out get your self a couple extra small Harddrives and I bet you anything the load times will drop like 75%.

Your HD has to render all that information when you enter a city so it causes alot of lag, I had a spare HD and it helped. I plan on getting 3 SATA Drives and add wow in those. Which will be 100x better.

[Stabface]

Or save your money and HDD space, and just run everything from 1 install of WoW... seriously, try it !

Less hassle when you have to patch, too !

[Poolboy]

I'm a hardware caveman like I said, but setup has 2x 500gb 32mb cache drives (they were only about $120 a pop I think?). All of my games/fun shit are on the second drive as was suggested to me and I feel like I could load another 2 or 3 WoWs without problems. Q6600 with 4gb ram.

Just a baseline for ya I suppose. Sounds like ram or more/better drives?