seems like its my GTX 280 card who is having problems with the heat and the fan only runs at 40% so i will tune up the speed and test if the computer stops shutting down after a while of play.
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seems like its my GTX 280 card who is having problems with the heat and the fan only runs at 40% so i will tune up the speed and test if the computer stops shutting down after a while of play.
lol shat is a nightmare for almost all players.
What i do, is put all graphics to low, and put windows running with the basics only, so i get all memory and cpu to wow.
i open 4 clients, and run very nice, and my computer is kind old.
My conf is:
AMD Athlon64 3000+
2 GB Kingston DDR1
Hard drive Seagate 500GB Sata2
Geforce GT6800 512.
and i´m using windows xp 32 bits version.
So check what is running in youre windows, oh another thing i notice, using service pack 3 make windows xp run slower then ever...
Good luck ;)
set video settings to "LOW" for all clients but your main. I ASSUME (and I hate that word) that you are running them on one single monitor? It is very very unnecessary for clients to require anything but low FPS/graphics as your main will be doing all the work.
I'd do:
Core 0: Main
Core 1: Client 1
Core 2: Client 2
Core 3: Client 3/4
Also defrag your Hard drive.
Seems to be my power supply actually.
my cpu is nearly at max temp all the time and i short circuted my whole computer room when i tried to start up the pc after using the other power output on the power supply. 2 of my hard drives also had issues by vanishing and comming back untill i changed the power output.
I would assume that the fluid aint getting pumped around in my water cooling system it just stands in one spot and cant take the heat away fasst enough.
I agree here, problem is probably caused by bus-overload due to very high HDD access going thru the front side bus. Especially with a Core 2 Quad you should stick to one HDD since the multithreaded perf of a C2Q is dependent of a clear front side bus (die0 is connected to die2 via fsb). Possible hardware upgrades would be the coming Core i7 platform, it makes wonders for multoboxing. I have tested 10-boxing on a Core i7 940 running at 3.6GHz with 6GB DDR3 1333MHz (tripple channel) and the perf is just amazing. The new platform will be available in the middle of Nov and motherboard + cpu (920) will be about 300+250 USD, absolutly worth it! I will for sure upgrade to Core i7 as soon as it is available (using QX9770 atm above 4GHz and 3GHz core i7 outperforms it).Quote:
Originally Posted by king.pa',index.php?page=Thread&postID=133548#post1 33548]
[quote='Dominian',index.php?page=Thread&postID=1301 47#post130147]My main wow folder is on a 10000 rpm drive while slave 2,3 is on a 7200rpm and 4,5 on my last 7200rpm.
[/quote]You should consider using a single wow data folder instead of many as you are now using.
Windows isn't really a "data transfert God" especially when multiple disks are used simultaneously, and you have a 10K rpm drive .. just use [url='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link
Im posting how it went in order for people who bother to use "search" later on :)
It seems like it was my CPU wasnt working like it should and they changed it.
Hope this helps for others!
How did you figure out your cpu was bad? I'm using a Q6600 with 8gb of ddr2 800 memory, nvidia 8800gt and I'm consistently 98% cpu on running just 4 clients since the 3.0.2 release. All of the cpu usage is from wow as well. Even if I run all settings on low I get the issue. It's currently driving me crazy. I've tried a ton of different affinity settings to no avail. I'm currently running core 0 and 1 on main, and the 3 other cores sharing 2 and 3. I keep reading all these people 4 boxing with dual cores and I can't even run 4 on a quad much less run all 5 of my clients. Before the patch everything seemed fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Dominian',index.php?page=Thread&postID=142318#pos t142318
I had to send my complete pc back to were it was built so i realy have no idea how they did it! Maybe someone can give us a input on how to test if the CPU is working or not?Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Thulos',index.php?page=Thread&postID=143089#post1 43089
But it certainly sounds like you have the same problem as me! How about contacting the support for your cpu company?
I havent taken a look on how much o% my CPU use but the only place i get lag is in shatrath but most people do anyway and my server is overcrowded. In AV it pretty much runs smooth even when 40 people is fighting in the galv room now.
I built the system myself so I don't have a vendor I can return the machine to. I really find it hard to believe the cpu is bad but it may very well be a possibility. If someone has a good idea how to benchmark a quad core and some reference benchmarks I can test against then I can start to get a better idea. I was completely fine prior to 3.0.2, which is what makes me sad.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Dominian',index.php?page=Thread&postID=143096#pos t143096
Well they told me the first time i called them that it also could be my power supply.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Thulos',index.php?page=Thread&postID=143097#post1 43097
I would suggest you to get crysis and max out the video settings.. My computer ususaly blacked out after a few hours when i did it!