MASSIVE performance increase in WoW

ah glad to see im not only one suffering.. well.. not glad.. but you know :p
yeah its brutal. even zoning in places.. ive poped into WG through the portal and all my toons see my tank and can buff or w/e but tank cant see any toons lol.

worst is definitely wiping in icecrown heroics. I spend like 2 minutes trying to pick up off the grave.
not many ways to fix tho? anyone have the max view distance turned up on screens? does it help?

(current vid settings - main is at Ultra / alts at lowlowlow of the low.)

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Originally Posted by kate

Even if you're all in the same phase (all my characters are) you still have the same problem - any boundary where there's a phased spot will cause the toons to not see each other for a moment which breaks follow.

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So true. There's even a few weird spots like in Gundrak on the bridge my guys sometimes break there. Ah well at least I could see them to spam follow, lol. Being unable to see them when you're right there is frustrating!

Has anyone taken their 2 seater rocket yet to a place where you and the passenger are in different phases? I'm still curious what would happen.

Phase lines break follow.

Pretty much, since they were following, they're facing the same way.
So when Jamba spams me with the, "You're going too fast!" message (love custom messages)...

I push the Up Arrow key, which is slaves only - move forward.
And then a moment later, hit my follow key.

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Originally Posted by Ualaa

Phase lines break follow.

Pretty much, since they were following, they're facing the same way.
So when Jamba spams me with the, "You're going too fast!" message (love custom messages)...

I push the Up Arrow key, which is slaves only - move forward.
And then a moment later, hit my follow key.

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That's how I've been handling it, too. I'm really glad I implemented the arrow keys to move my slaves - makes EVERYTHING so much easier.

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Originally Posted by Ualaa

So when Jamba spams me with the, "You're going too fast!" message (love custom messages)...

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Hahaha good to see i'm not the only one who is using/enjoying custom messages. Mine was 'hey slow down you mofo' for a while. Which makes me curious as to what other players their customs are :)

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Originally Posted by kate

Then, on another set of forums I frequent, I saw someone mention the following tweaks to the Config file:

SET timingMethod "2"
SET componentThread "3"
SET M2Faster "3"

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Got a question here, not just to the OP, but to all that use this tweak. I run four accounts on my laptop listed in my sig with Keyclone and slaves systemlinked from the main's folder. Do I copy these three lines and put them only in my main's config file, or do it to all four? Also do I have to change the numbers any on any of them? My main and slaves all have everything turned off but the mouse hardware option. It slows everything down if it's off on everyone. Main has view distance up all the way and the option to see AoE spells cast on the ground, but everything else is off. Even turned off AA and VSync on everyone's too to help.

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Originally Posted by lans83

Got a question here, not just to the OP, but to all that use this tweak. I run four accounts on my laptop listed in my sig with Keyclone and slaves systemlinked from the main's folder. Do I copy these three lines and put them only in my main's config file, or do it to all four? Also do I have to change the numbers any on any of them? My main and slaves all have everything turned off but the mouse hardware option. It slows everything down if it's off on everyone. Main has view distance up all the way and the option to see AoE spells cast on the ground, but everything else is off. Even turned off AA and VSync on everyone's too to help.

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For the most part, those tweaks are intended to take advantage of high-end hardware so might not work so well on lower-power stuff. For example, when I made those tweaks on my old system (which was running a Core2Duo), it actually *hurt* the performance somewhat. I say try it out and see what happens.

You want to put them in the config file for each instance of wow you run, so the config folders for all of your characters.

As far as ICC, it seems at least for my guys that picking up the battle before the citidel quest or the other one with jousting will force them into the same instance in front of ICC for GY runs. I haven't died since I picked it up, but they are able to follow and see each other out front now for the first time since I raised up my last three shamans as long as that quest is in my log. There are still annoying phase break lines from dalaran to ICC but at least I can send two up to summon the rest now.

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There are still annoying phase break lines from dalaran to ICC but at least I can send two up to summon the rest now.

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I might've overlooked it somehow, but isn't or shouldn't there be summoning stone in Dalaran for VH? I mean, there's one in SW and Org, why not Dal? Or are my eyes that bad and missed it?

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Originally Posted by lans83

I might've overlooked it somehow, but isn't or shouldn't there be summoning stone in Dalaran for VH? I mean, there's one in SW and Org, why not Dal? Or are my eyes that bad and missed it?

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Nope, probably the only WOTLK dungeon without one.
I assume it was done to prevent summoning toons that weren't high enough to get to Dal normally (even though you can warlock summon)