1 of 5 WOW's has red connection always...and

[Gares]

Ok so here is the deal.

I have tried everything other then I believe the TCP ack/frequency registry edit to help correct my problem..Should I do this?

I always have one of five of my connections in the red. (5 WOWs on 1 PC with dual monitor)

My biggest problem after that is almost like "soft lag" in game. Sometimes it happens when entering combat, sometimes when I change to ghost wolf, sometimes when I am casting, sometimes when I am looting. My connections never seem to change so this really leads me to believe that this might be a load time/HD issues?

I run 2 seperate folders for my boxing. Main runs from one folder and the 4 slaves from another folder but on the same HD. I do have another HD that I could transfer the slaves too maybe this would help?

Most of the time my game runs fine (using keyclone) and I have each of them assigned to a seperate CPU as well in the settings.

Other then that the only issue I get sometimes is my FPS goes all crazy when I am using PIP swapping. (Main screen doesn't have its FPS reset for some reason when I PIP swap back to it from a clone and it remains at like <15FPS for along time and then *might* reset by mass PIP swapping)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Forgive me if some of this sounds pedantic but we gotta make sure you didn't flub the basics. Check the following and see if any of it helps:

• In-game graphics sliders all to minimum.
• In-game graphics effects all off.
• In-game triple-buffering on.
• wow.exe processes all set to LOW priority
• wow.exe processes distributed affinity properly (see other threads for specifics)
• All wow addons disabled as a test to make sure it isn't caused by one addon or too many addons (backup your INTERFACE and WTF folders before doing this so you can reset easily when done testing)
• In your machine's control panel for ATI or NVidia, make sure your 3d graphics options are set for "performance" and not "quality"
• Make sure you don't have other processes taking up lots of CPU when you see this problem.
• No keyclone. If it won't happen w/o keyclone, hmm...

[elsegundo]

I only have the FPS problem when switching between screens using PiP with maximizer (not the soft-lag problem). if anyone is able to help with this, i'd greatly appreciate it!
screens set to 10FPS for background and 40 FPS for main. however, i've notice it would sometimes bug and the main screen would stay at around 15fps. multiple switches often does not fix this problem, at least not for me. hehe. again, any help is appreciated.

I will also check Ughmaheadhurtz' suggestions too, thanks a bunch!

[Ughmahedhurtz]

i've notice it would sometimes bug and the main screen would stay at around 15fps.

That particular problem is because wow does not realize it is the "foreground" window. Try clicking on the desktop/taskbar or something and then clicking on the main WoW window again and see if that fixes it.

[Bot]

i had a problem when i first started where all the clients would be hovering around 250ms except one that would be at about 1000+ms. so i turned everything down and still had the problem. then i did the registry edit and now all clients are at a steady 45ms or lower even in org. havent got to try it in shat yet though. i run 3 clients off of 1 hd and 2 of them off of another, and 4 of them are symbolically linked to the main. im also using vista.

ive had the reverse problem with keyclone and the fps bug. where when i PiP swap the previous window will stay at the foreground fps while the new main also goes up to the max dps. it can sometimes affect up to 3 clients at a time. i just click on the "background" client then click back on the main window and all is better. hope that wasnt too confusing.

[Gares]

Forgive me if some of this sounds pedantic but we gotta make sure you didn't flub the basics. Check the following and see if any of it helps:

• In-game graphics sliders all to minimum.
• In-game graphics effects all off.
• In-game triple-buffering on.
• wow.exe processes all set to LOW priority
• wow.exe processes distributed affinity properly (see other threads for specifics)
• All wow addons disabled as a test to make sure it isn't caused by one addon or too many addons (backup your INTERFACE and WTF folders before doing this so you can reset easily when done testing)
• In your machine's control panel for ATI or NVidia, make sure your 3d graphics options are set for "performance" and not "quality"
• Make sure you don't have other processes taking up lots of CPU when you see this problem.
• No keyclone. If it won't happen w/o keyclone, hmm...

I pretty much have done everything except the tcpackfrequency change which I must be too tired to be able to find ATM for some reason for Windows Vista.

I did make the change to my ATI to have everything set to performance more then quality now. (Most were already at performance except a few)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Hmm...very strange. If it were multiple PCs, I'd have some other things to check. With all of 'em on 1 PC, it negates a lot of the connectivity/networking aspects. What sort of broadband connection are you on?

Also, have you tried clicking one window and then another one to see if it fixes the FPS issues?

Regarding the 1 account going nuts with latency, what happens if you run just 4 accounts?

[Gares]

Hmm...very strange. If it were multiple PCs, I'd have some other things to check. With all of 'em on 1 PC, it negates a lot of the connectivity/networking aspects. What sort of broadband connection are you on?

Also, have you tried clicking one window and then another one to see if it fixes the FPS issues?

Regarding the 1 account going nuts with latency, what happens if you run just 4 accounts?

I am on a ADSL connection with a linksys router.

The FPS thing I really haven't been able to nail down it just seems that it only happens sometimes with my main screen. If I PIP swap to another of the others they hit 60 fps and never have a hiccup, but my main screen which has all the details etc up sometimes forgets now to hit the 60 fps and stays below the maxbgfps that I set even when the window is active. Like I said it seems I have to swap between all 5 screens it fixes.

I'm not sure but if I run one account solo its fine 100ms-200ms and if I run any combo of account they are all in that range as well.

If I do run 4 accounts however sometimes they will all be good and sometimes one will not.

I have run a tracert while I've had them open and sometimes but not all the time I have a high latency packet along the hop. Its always just one and if I do the tracert again its not there, and then if I retest again it sometimes pops up again. So I am really at a loss with this one.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Out of curiosity, is your network adapter built into your motherboard or is it a PCI card?

[Gares]

On this system its built in but I actually use a seperate adapater that I installed because I have had problems in the past with built in adapters.