Hi, I am running a system Windows XP, 8400 3.0 GHz, with 4GB of RAM, Hitachi 1 Terabyte HD 32MB Cache at 7200RPMs, with a GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, 22" wide and 19" screens, I have 5 separate wow directories.

Right now I have a 5 shaman team, and everything was going ok, untill I got to Shattrah and Outlands, I had these weird crashes where One or Two wow's would just go down randomly after I play for like 30 min or so. And I also sometimes get these episodes where every window would just go super slow at 1-2FPS and the ground looses texture, and the only way out of which is to shut the wows down and reboot the computer.

I think I might have a bottleneck with my 3GB of RAM that XP can see, even though I have 2x2 GB sticks in the computer. So my question is, should I get another 4GB of ram (cheap now) and upgrade to Vista 64, or should I get another Hitachi drive and place the Alts folders on that drive? I already think I know the answer to this question (which is probably try and do both or do the RAM idea first, but any input would be appreciated).

I also noticed that at times when my FPS would drop, one of the wows would be eating up 500MB of RAM, while the others are at 325 each. DO you guys experience these spikes in memory usage? (I have disabled all the UIs in the game, no Help Quest etc.)