Ok so my /follow still breaks since I started 4 months ago....

Ok now that I got flying mounts and am flying all over Northrend my follow still breaks for no good reason and I am starting to get pissed off beyond belief now. So I will be as through as possible and someone maybe suggest something that might help. BTW I am 5 boxing it as well. Also I know of the phasing areas in Icecrown, Dragonblight etc so I'm not counting those.

System: Quad Core 6700 with 4 Gigs of RAM running Windows Vista 64. ATI Radeon 4870 512MB on double screen. Main running on 22' HP and slaves across 17'.

Setup: Main Wow Folder c:\wow Slaves ONE WOW folder e:\

I have Symlinked the data and cache folders only from my slave to my main folder. (Although I kind of found that /follow break more often and with more of my toons then before). It use to be just one all the time and now it seems like they all do it at the same time. Most notably while flying where there is NOTHING in the way to stop them from following.

I have done the tcpackfrequency edit to my registry and my ping is all around 50-75ms on all my toons. I have all 4 of my slaves graphics turn to the min and my mains mostly full minus a few items which are either medium or off. I do not run any addons at all on either my main or slaves.

My HD's are only 7200 RPM but I think it should be able to handle it.

My only option that I really can see is putting another 4 Gigs of RAM in to help. I know when I hit Dalaran I cannot even move with my toons. I have to pretty much take them all solo or 2 at a time to make it through there. I believe that while I have all my toons running etc that my RAM usage is around 73-80% usage. So I do remember reading about Windows starting to swap around this area is this true? Maybe that is why my toons lose follow alot.

My best guess is this. While travelling my comp is loading the world as I move and sometimes I see all my chars on my second screen stop for like 1-2 seconds and then if they are still in range of my main keeping following but if not they break. I thought Symlinking would solve this but I swear it made it worse by lagging all my followers at the same time now instead of maybe 1-2.

Anyone suggest anything other then getting another 4 Gigs of RAM (Which I am doing in probably 1-2 weeks anyways now)

If this is just random dropping of follow, try something like Jamba's strobing feature or similar. Follow isn't perfect, but if you have something saying "hey c'mere" every second it tends to behave better.

The memory is probably a good idea regardless.

If yeh already set the graphics to a minimum set maxfps 20 maxfpsbk 5, not running anything else in the background, get rid off addons, set vista up for performance.

Its due to not having enough memory. I havent check the memory usage of late but I think it averages about 600 megs times that by 5 = 3 gigs vista really needs 2 gigs to itself so everytime something else gets loaded new scenery/npcs what not something gotta get paged out to the hard drive which cause the lag.

Increase Memory.

2 gigs = vista
2 gigs = 4 clients (approx)

5th client = issues.

Yeah going to do my upgrade to 8 gigs in 2-3 weeks so hopefully that will do the trick.

Get "Keep Following" addon on Curse.

are you sure its just northrend ? if so this could be the blizard phasing idea. its all about different are view depending on storyline progression.so you load up your own version then se who is in the newer area. but you disapear from the others view first and stopping follow. this may be whats causing this.

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are you sure its just northrend ? if so this could be the blizard phasing idea. its all about different are view depending on storyline progression.so you load up your own version then se who is in the newer area. but you disapear from the others view first and stopping follow. this may be whats causing this.

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Phasing is probably the issue if it's happening as you fly around Northrend. It's horrible and there's nothing we can do about it - only Blizzard can fix it. Basically, my hunter and priest can be on the exact same steps on all of their quests (since they leveled together) and still phase out of view constantly while flying. Suddenly one of them disappears from the other's screen and i have to stop moving, 'find myself', re-follow and move on for 20 seconds until it happens again as I cross over phased questing areas and such. Tis not fun. :pinch:

Have you tried setting the frames per second back up to normal on all screens to test? When I set mine lower I noticed I broke follow much much more often. Reverting it fixed my issue with it.