Disconnect problem since patch

[Riault]

Setup: 2 box using autohotkey (1 monitor, 1 box)

I set the FPS etc (as indicated above) to 60 ... I was still being disconnected everytime I would stop (the /follow toon would immediately disco).

I kept digging through this site and noticed some comments about breaking /follow so I hooked a hotkey to step forward

So I close the gap on /follow and then drop the druid via "step forward" breaking /follow and continue with the warrior.

In 4 hours of game play AFTER that I did not disco one single time. So just our of curriosity I decided to not break follow and blam the druid discos as soon as the tank stops.

I don't know if this helps anyone or not but it seemed to work for me.

Riault

[Xzin]

I tested on the UC elevators last night for 10+ minutes. No DCs.

[hapiguy314]

I did some extensive testing with a quad core and 3x 8800GTXes on a 30" monitor array. The 8 series drivers suck pretty hard right now, so these MAY not be representitive but a good general test.

Running 1 WoW on 1 head of 1 video card = 60 fps solid. (Duh).

Running 2 WoWs on 1 head of 1 video card = 60 fps solid each.

Running 2 WoWs on 2 heads of 1 video card = 40 - 50 fps each WoW.

So - bottomline takeaway - try it on the same video head and see if that ups your framerate. If nothing else, make sure if you are running windowed then you don't have ANY overlap. Even the corners. This absolutely kills your framerate.

You should be pushing far more FPS than you are with that rig.

Are you saying I should get a splitter to attach both monitors on the same VGA (I use an adaptor - no DVI-D cables) female port?

What the - how did you manage to push 40-50 FPS on 2 wow clients on 2 different monitors at such a high resolution as you stated :cry: .

[hapiguy314]

Just asked my friend who has a quad core to hook up both his 19" monitors on the his GTX and run 2 clients of wow on each monitor. He said he drops down to 18 FPS on 1 monitor and 24 FPS on the other when viewing two clients on two separate monitors.

He said that it was expected as you're asking the g/x card to render the image simultaneously which will definitely choke your system. That's why if you operate 2 clients right on top of each other, or just both in one monitor, then you get better FPS (because it still functions as if it's a full screen rendering of the game - but splitting it makes it on two monitors work twice as hard because you render twice as much). :roll:

Dunno what else to do now but try plugging a splitter and connect the 2 monitors on the splitter and attach it to one port - though I thought that was the same as attaching it to two separate ports provided by the vid card.

[Xzin]

If I move to offload the image to ANOTHER separate graphics card, the 8800gtx can handle it (assume you have x16 PCIe for each card though). Maning two 8800gtxes, bot with x16 lanes. x8 would work but will slow down on the 8800 series perhaps 10 - 20% over 16x (depends on the game).

He likely gets slower fps because he is asking ONE card to render TWO WoWs. If he had TWO cards rendering TWO WoWs then both would be "full speed". Or render 2 copies of WoW on ONE single card on ONE port. When I tested that, it was more than playable, with each WoW at 1600x1280.

Splitters will not work. You really cannot play two copies of WoW on one VGA connection anyway - the card would likely not have the processing power and the resolution would be too low to support it (assuming you are trying to run two WoWs on one output).

I managed to run 2 WoWs at 1600x1280 each by using a single 8800GTX card with full x16 lane support and a quad core processor with 4 gigs of memoy (only needs 1.5 or so). Less (or slower) memory, slower processor or a slower video card and it would not be possible.

I WAS RUNNING BOTH OF THESE ON THE SAME HEAD OF A SINGLE CARD. If I ran it on BOTH HEADS on TWO SCREENS, my fps dropped dramaticaly. But running on ONE PORT out of a Dual Link DVI connector, it was VERY playable - I would imagine that it is the exact same kind of horsepower as two computers from just a few years ago.

Does that make sense? It's not eactly easy to explain

Here is a pic from one of my dual core machines:



It gives you an idea of what I am talking about. That is a 30" screen, powered by (in this case a 8600 GTS) a single port (running at a total resolution of 1600x2560 - remember, its vertical).

Of note; I was using WoW Maximizer on the top screen. This does not impact FPS but relocates the screen and allows for borderless viewing of WoW in a window. It does not (currently) support more than 1 copy of WoW in a borderless setup. But it is open source, so it could be added by making the program aware of two WoWs (they share the same program window name, so it confuses it).

[hapiguy314]

He likely gets slower fps because he is asking ONE card to render TWO WoWs. If he had TWO cards rendering TWO WoWs then both would be "full speed". Or render 2 copies of WoW on ONE single card on ONE port. When I tested that, it was more than playable, with each WoW at 1600x1280.

Yeah - I didn't know you were testing it on two monitors attached to two different vid cards (we both only have 1 single GTX card). If that was the case, then running higher FPS on two monitors, with separate vid cards (SLI'd or not) on a single machine would yield higher FPS. But I was wondering if my machine was just not configured properly when splitting two wow clients on separate machines using one 8800 GTX. I guess it's the best I can do (unless of course I buy a 30" monitor like you and play 2 clients in one monitor).

On your screenshot - it's still one monitor though (despite the fact that it's a bigger monitor). I think the problem is when it splits it on two different monitors and yet only using one g/x card.

Thanks for the input Xzin As always - u've been very helpful.

[Xzin]

On your screenshot - it's still one monitor though (despite the fact that it's a bigger monitor). I think the problem is when it splits it on two different monitors and yet only using one g/x card.

Exactly. When you use ONE card and split it to two monitors (using two "heads" - output ports) even on one video card, you get lower performance (by a good margin) than by using ONE card and ONE port. I don't know if this is a drive issue or something isolated to the 8 series but such is the case right now.

Short of getting a 22"+ plus screen though, I am not sure how you would be able to capitalize on this. Plus, then you need to use autohotkey, etc to control two WoWs. It seems easier to just buy two monitors and two computers.

[Los]

there is one way to up the fps on a dual headder, go windowed, decrease window size and turn of sound and as much gfx as possible. Still not ideally but workable.

[hapiguy314]

Dell computer on sale for $350 :P

[Adronson]

Blizzard has finally acknowledged the problem and they are requesting system specs:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...922296&sid=1#0