Horrible performance bringing in the 5th toon

[Seldum]

Have you monitored your RAM usage lately?

Tonight I experienced lag (5-15 fps on main) in Shattrad city. I looked at my ram usage and each wow client sucked up just under 1 gb. I have a total of 6gb on my system, so I think I have found a bottleneck there....

I wonder if I should buy another 6gb and if it would help.

[wowphreak]

@Seldum drop yer resolution it should reduce the amount of memory each one uses.


@Ghallo have yeh tried dropping all the affects push that slider all the way to the left?
Just to see if it helps.

Do you have 5 copies of wow? primary reason to get low fps in dalaran is because it has lots of textures to load which points to the harddrive being the bottleneck.

[Seldum]

@Seldum drop yer resolution it should reduce the amount of memory each one uses.


@Ghallo have yeh tried dropping all the affects push that slider all the way to the left?
Just to see if it helps.

Do you have 5 copies of wow? primary reason to get low fps in dalaran is because it has lots of textures to load which points to the harddrive being the bottleneck.

Thought I would share my tweaks.

I lowered shadow settings (way low), ground clutter/density and (medium) and this helped with the ram usage. It lowered it from 885 mb per client to 675 mb per client.
I also tweaked the performance of the GPU power to high performance like describes in another topic, and set the alts to 20 fps in ISBoxer from 30 fps.

Now I have 20-40 fps in Shattrad City.

I also bough 6GB additional Ram, so they should help once I get them installed. Can't wait to see if theres an improvement.

I feel like its a RAM issue, not really a graphic issue. That and loadtime from my Raid setup.

[Drommon]

Have you monitored your RAM usage lately?

Tonight I experienced lag (5-15 fps on main) in Shattrad city. I looked at my ram usage and each wow client sucked up just under 1 gb. I have a total of 6gb on my system, so I think I have found a bottleneck there....

I wonder if I should buy another 6gb and if it would help.

I have 8GB and my 5 wow clients and the OS uses ~6gb. So yes getting more ram is generally helpful. I would prioritize the order of upgrades to be ->

Ram
HDD -> SSD
CPU
GPU

My 4850's are only using about 60% of capacity. This could mean I have a bottleneck somewhere before the data gets to the GPU. It may also mean that I set all the catalyst drivers to performance over quality.

Drommon