i realise this is general discussion, so barring any h8 responses, just a little help pls

[Tasty]

Yeah well Shatt is still a hole :P

[Zub]

Yeah well Shatt is still a hole :P

Can't wait for Dalaran.. but it will probably be worse >.<

[zanthor]

Your biggest problem by far is the 2gb of ram on the system. With 5 copies of wow running you will suck up about 2.8gb of ram counting Vista... in heavy pop areas, that hits harder and you will page a lot to the disk making it unplayable.

[Jaese]

Junction and hardlink your WoW installs (you should be using more than one anyway).

This will minimize HDD activity which is probably causing your slow load times.

I have 2.990GHz C2D, 8800GT, 4GB RAM (and I barely hit 2GB in use when playing), and XP with 5 hardlinked junctioned installs. Shatt loads smooth as butter.

[excalibur]

so create 4 copies of my wow folder and run them all from seperate copies?

im currently running all 5 copies from 1 install, so if that makes it better ill do that too.

[Jaese]

[quote='excalibur',index.php?page=Thread&postID=118 176#post118176]so create 4 copies of my wow folder and run them all from seperate copies?

im currently running all 5 copies from 1 install, so if that makes it better ill do that too.[/quote]

5 different WoW installs will help but won't solve it all.

[url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=9296']Multiple Installs, the Data Folder, and Symbolic Links on Win XP[/url]

Here's my junction .bat, for reference:

@echo off

FOR /f %%I IN ('dir /b /a:-d "World of Warcraft"') DO (
echo %%I
fsutil hardlink create "World of Warcraft Slave\%%I" "World of Warcraft\%%I"
fsutil hardlink create "World of Warcraft Slave2\%%I" "World of Warcraft Slave\%%I"
fsutil hardlink create "World of Warcraft Slave3\%%I" "World of Warcraft Slave\%%I"
fsutil hardlink create "World of Warcraft Slave4\%%I" "World of Warcraft Slave\%%I"
)

junction "World of Warcraft Slave\Data" "World of Warcraft\Data"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave2\Data" "World of Warcraft\Data"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave3\Data" "World of Warcraft\Data"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave4\Data" "World of Warcraft\Data"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave\Cache" "World of Warcraft\Cache"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave2\Cache" "World of Warcraft\Cache"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave3\Cache" "World of Warcraft\Cache"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave4\Cache" "World of Warcraft\Cache"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave\Fonts" "World of Warcraft\Fonts"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave2\Fonts" "World of Warcraft\Fonts"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave3\Fonts" "World of Warcraft\Fonts"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave4\Fonts" "World of Warcraft\Fonts"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave\Interface" "World of Warcraft\Interface"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave2\Interface" "World of Warcraft\Interface"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave3\Interface" "World of Warcraft\Interface"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave4\Interface" "World of Warcraft\Interface"

mkdir "World of Warcraft Slave\WTF"
mkdir "World of Warcraft Slave2\WTF"
mkdir "World of Warcraft Slave3\WTF"
mkdir "World of Warcraft Slave4\WTF"
mkdir "World of Warcraft Slave\WTF\Account"

junction "World of Warcraft Slave\WTF\Account" "World of Warcraft\WTF\Account"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave2\WTF" "World of Warcraft Slave\WTF"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave3\WTF" "World of Warcraft Slave\WTF"
junction "World of Warcraft Slave4\WTF" "World of Warcraft Slave\WTF"

[excalibur]

ok so now you have just confused me, i take it this long chain requires its own program to run it?

considering im a pretty noob guy, would the performance warrant the time learning this?

like i said, i am pretty noob, and trying to solve this problem in the least complex way possible.

[Turenn]

First of all get more ram, ( I like to state the obvious, with Vista SP1 you don't need a 64bit system).

Have you setup your /console maxfps and /console maxfpsbk? It's amazing what these two line can do for you. And if you are running a same class group just run all the wows from one folder.

[Skuggomann]

Just want to point out that i had a worse pc then you, just lower the settings and it will work. I did av and walked around in shatt fine.

I had: 2core: 2,4; Gforce 2700; 2gb ram.

[excalibur]

ok i want to thank you all for the responses, it has been great, i took my pc to my mates place (he has an identical machine to me) and he dropped his 2 1gb ram sticks in mine and surprisingly there is no lag in av, i can run around shat fairly lag free, and we checked the ram usage and its peaking around 2.5gb - 2.6gb at its worst, so if i drop 2gb in there its reading 3.5 cause of crappy 32bit but its not paging 500mb when it peaks, so its fixed now, and im sure ill go back to enjoying bgs.


once again, thank you all.