Frame Rate Problems -- Happened overnight! Need help! PLEASE!
Hello!
Since I have been traveling all over lately from one of my homes to another, I've been playing with a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 4 gigs of RAM, best configuration available from Mac). It has all been fine multi-boxing four characters, with no lag or frame-rate issues, until today.
My Set-Up:
-MBP
-Keyclone (Running Maximizer)
-Four World of Warcraft
-One additional monitor (My "main" is on the laptop, and the slaves are on the monitor, that has a resolution of 1280x1024)
THESE ARE THE SETTINGS I USED BEFORE THE LAG:
MAIN:
Res: 1280x768
Multisampeling: 24-bitcolor 24-bit dpeth 2xmultisample
Vertical Sync ON
Triple Buffering ON
Hardware Cursor ON
Terrain Distance FAR
Terrain Detail HIGH
Spell Detail HIGH
Enviorment Detail FAR
Ground Clutter Density: HIGH
Ground Clutter Radius: FAR
Texture Resolution: HIGH
Texture Filtering: High
Weather Intensity: High
Specular Lighting ON
Full-Screen Glow ON
Death Effect ON
Character Shadows ON
SLAVES:
Res: 800x600
Multisampeling: 16-bitcolor 16-bit dpeth 1xmultisample
Vertical Sync ON
Triple Buffering ON
Hardware Cursor ON
Terrain Distance NEAR
Terrain Detail LOW
Spell Detail LOW
Enviorment Detail NEAR
Ground Clutter Density: LOW
Ground Clutter Radius: NEAR
Texture Resolution: LOW
Texture Filtering: LOW
Weather Intensity: LOW
Specular Lighting OFF
Full-Screen Glow OFF
Death Effect OFF
Character Shadows OFF
I would have the BACK-FPS at 5 and the Active-Window-FPS at 45. I would achieve around 35-40 in Ironforge/Stormwind, and obviously higher outside these cities.
I woke up this morning and started up my WoW, like I usually do. But, once all my characters were logged in, I was barely achieving 10 FPS. So, I logged out and set the graphic settings on EACH window to the absolute minimum and I turned off every add-on on every WoW application. However, I was still barely getting 15 FPS. I have not downloaded or changed ANYTHING since yesterday, so I do not know what is going on. I also have CORE affinity set-up and that has not changed either.
However, I did notice one thing change. The multisampeling changed on EACH slave, before it was 16-bit color 16-bit depth 1x multisample, but now it is at 24-bit color 24-bit depth 1x multisample. I have attempted numerous times to change it to what it was set to before, but everytime I reload the game it changes back to the new setting. It just does not "stick." I was thinking that this might be what is causing the frame rate problems, but what do I know!
Since this has occurred, I have reinstalled everything, and even reformated my Windows partition. Even though I have done all this, I cannot "stick" the multisampleing back down. I have even attempted to play with each screen on only the laptops monitor, but still, the FPS sucks!
I really have no idea what to do, or how to fix this!
I am pleading for you geniuses here at www.dual-boxing.com to help me out!
Thank you!
