Big city lag issues..

I know anytime u enter a capital city (org, UC, Shat), its gonna come with a little more strain that anywhere else on ur comp.
But I been multiboxing 3 characters and have had 0 lag save for a few server related issues. But last night i tried entering UC and it froze and all three copies of wow crashed. Tried signing back on, froze but didnt crash. Any suggestions on what I may do to lessen the latency I get from cities. Maybe a way to disable the chat on my alts or something. I dunno..
Gonna try again tonight and see if I still have issues multiboxing in major cities.
If it keeps it up I just might have to keep my alts outside like misbehaving pets.. Poor Drixs and Draxs =(

Better router, better internet company,(faster internet), Better computer :)

I would split wow up between hard drives, I did and I don't lag in Big Towns anymore.

without upgrading yr hardware the easiest fix is:

make your slaves look at the floor and zoom in maximum , it improves your frame rates a lot if you are struggling

the 'lag' you are experiencing is not due to network issues. if this were the case, running multiple machines on the same home net would do nothing.

the odds are good your problems lie with either memory or disk related issues.

if your 'commit charge' is around 80% of your physical.. then your memory will start to swap to disk in an effort to squeeze more in. overtax it and your virtual disk can be exceeded... leading you to windows issues where your system is in a constant state of thrash as it writes one chunk of memory to the pagefile while pulling another out.

your other possibility would be a hard drive bottleneck. if you are running on an eSATA drive, i would doubt this... but the older EIDE could be bottle necked by 3 wows simultaneously pulling files.

my suggestion... add memory (3G should be enough for XP and 3 wow's) and consider upgrading to an eSATA drive

just my US$0.02 worth...

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Originally Posted by 'keyclone',index.php?page=Thread&postID=53251#post 53251

my suggestion... add memory (3G should be enough for XP and 3 wow's) and consider upgrading to an eSATA drive

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When running all the clients at minimum settings (only main has minimum+1 viewdistance) I have 2000-2500M ram used for five WoW's under Linux. I think it shouldn't be much worse for Windows. 3G for three clients should allow using a lot better visuals.

I run 5 clients on 1 machine and have loading lag when entering the crowded areas of major cities, but it's fairly smooth after it loads. I noticed eliminating all process not necessary increases performance a ton. I had firefox running with 1 tab and would lag on an off in org. I turned off firefox and was on cruise control. I started turning off my virus software while running 5x.

Well I got 2gb of ram, I might add more soon tho. 3gb sounds like the best path to success =)
But till then I'm gonna try doin that comp maintenance I been meaning to do for awhile. And also I think I'm gonna try running my slaves off my second HD. hopefully that helps a lot.
I've had great performance everywhere but Org/UC/Shat. I think a few small tweaks to squeeze a little more performance from my machine should help a great deal.

Thanx for the suggestions ppl

ahh... another thought... defrag

since you are reading in a lot of data, it would help if it were all together, reducing the work the drives need to do to pull it together.

might not be a massive gain, but it'd be something