What did I do wrong?

[Coltimar]

Here is my system:

Quad Core 2.5GHz - 4MB 1066Mhz memory, 512 MB 3850 Video Card.

Here is my old setup:

1 copy of WoW running on my root drive on a 10k raptor drive. I was getting lag everywhere that I encountered a lot of textures but still got good FPS.

I changed to this:

5 copies of WoW running on 2 7200 rpm WD drived Stipped with the data all SymLinked to 1 data folder on the same drive.

Now my fps is horrid. I get 8-10 fps all the time. Do I need to put my Data folder on another drive and SymLink there? What is my major malfunction?

[wowphreak]

run them all of the same installation of wow. you dont get any performance benefits from running them on from separate installs.
get everything running right off of one install first.

Guess yer running vista? If yer running vista and have 4 gigs yeh will still get some lag in areas with lots of people/npcs no matter what yeh do

Did yeh setup maxfps to 40 and maxfpsbk to 5 ?

[spannah]

I am guessing that by stipped you meant Stripped, which I will assume it is some level of raid.

I have a very similiar setup to yours, but my drives are not setup in any sort of raid. Basically C: and D:

OS (Vista 64) is on C: and WoWs with the symlinked datafolders are in D: and I think it is the main thing - you want to keep the OS separated from the WoW install.

[Jamien]

wowphreak - Actually there is a benefit to running wow's from different drives.

Colt - Your system should be able to handle multiple wow's at once with decent FPS.
If you can have your main character with all your mods, customisation, etc on one drive and then have the slave wow on a separate drive with data/cache symlinked to your mains drive.
If you're using Keyclone make sure that you set up in maximiser for the slaves to run on separate cores to the main. Will help a bit.
Also set maxfpsbk to 15 for all slaves. Keep the graphics options to a minimum on slaves. I'm not sure if having a lower resolution helps either, but I keep mine at a relatively low res for the slaves (or used to until i got a 24")

In cities you will get a heap of FPS lag, playing normally however shouldn't lag tooo much. You should be able to sit on 20-40fps.

[Coltimar]

Ok, some good stuff. I didn't mention that I have 3 drives; C: 10k raptor E: 500MB 7200rpm wd and F: Raid0 74GB 7200rpm drives x2.

My maximizer settings are good, but I didn't think of running my main on separate drive from my slaves. I'll try that.

As for the RAM, sadly I have 4 1GB sticks so I am basically flushing cash to replace the 1GB with 2GB since our local computer store has no use for 'high end' RAM as they term it :/

I'll try some of this and report back. I shouldn't be getting 8 fps in Nagrand, lol.

Thanks,
Colt

[Coltimar]

2 questions

Does it matter which drive Keyclone is installed on?

And I hadn't read to SymLink the Cache folder, is that a good plan as well?

[Coltimar]

I just noticed that my cores are maxing out. That I don't get.

Core0 77%
Core1 91%
Core2 100%
Core3 100%

My main is on Core1 and I have 2 clones each on Cores 2 and 3. I shouldn't be maxing those out. What's the deal?

[spannah]

I just noticed that my cores are maxing out. That I don't get.

Core0 77%
Core1 91%
Core2 100%
Core3 100%

My main is on Core1 and I have 2 clones each on Cores 2 and 3. I shouldn't be maxing those out. What's the deal?

sounds like a good setup. if they are maxing out, only thing I can think of is bad mod. Have you tried disabling all you mods and then re-enabling one by one? (and yes this can be a pain for all 5 instances...)

[zanthor]

I personally run my quad core affinity for 5 clients as follows:

Client 1 - Core 0,1
Client 2 - Core 1,2
Client 3 - Core 2,3
Client 4 - Core 3,1
Client 5 - Core 0,1,2,3

My CPU usage scales quite smoothly across all 4 cores.

[Coltimar]

I checked a bunch of other stuff and my CPU is running hot, which baffles me. My heatsink is seated correctly and the fan is running well and I have 4 120mm Silverstone fans, all running fine. I changed some things physically to see if I can get the temp down. At one point, with 7 wow's going, it was at 102 degrees Celcius.