Hmm, 8600GT 256MB to 9800GT 512MB didn't make much difference

[Schwarz]

When I had 4gig ram on a 64 bit system task manager would show ~3.5gig usage with 5 wows/keyclone open. After I upgrade to 8gig it shows 4.1gig usage with the same programs running.

[Hachoo]

Case in point...

I'm sitting in the center of a village in zangarmarsh, Each wow process is taking 255MB of memory, I have firefox open, total CPU usage is at 33% for the whole system, and I have 1.3GB of memory free.

All this and I'm still only getting 27FPS on my main. I really don't think its my cpu or memory.

[pengwynman]

Case in point...

I'm sitting in the center of a village in zangarmarsh, Each wow process is taking 255MB of memory, I have firefox open, total CPU usage is at 33% for the whole system, and I have 1.3GB of memory free.

All this and I'm still only getting 27FPS on my main. I really don't think its my cpu or memory.

I'm not trying to be a douche or anything... but i find it hard to believe that 5x wow, 1x firefox, plus the OS and any other programs you may have open only take 1.7GB of memory.

Also, I cannot for the life of me find out the exact amount of memory WinXP 32bit can see. When I google I see anything from 3GB, to 3.2GB, 3.3GB, 3.5GB, etc. Which is it? I have 3GB right now, if its 3.5GB I would upgrade to 4 just to get the extra 500MB but if its only 3 or 3.2, etc, its not worth the $20 to upgrade. Just curious. Can someone with WinXP 32 and 4GB of memory tell me exactly how much memory windows says you have in system properties?

A 32-bit OS can access a TOTAL of 4GB of memory. That's 4GB between your system memory and all addon hardware. So if you have 4 GB of physical memory plugged in, and a 512mb video card, that's 3.5GB of system memory that the OS can address.

[Hachoo]

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[Hachoo]

Not sure why no one believes this LOL. And this is after playing WoW for almost an hour, with firefox open on dual-boxing.com the entire time.

[pengwynman]

Not sure why no one believes this LOL. And this is after playing WoW for almost an hour, with firefox open on dual-boxing.com the entire time.

*shrug* =/

[Schwarz]

I appologize for turning this into a MORE RAM NEEDED thread. But here try this for shits and giggles. Your 5 wows is taking up ~1.7gb of ram. Your system has 3gb of ram. Remove 1gb of ram and see if you keep the same performance. One of 3 things will happen

1) performance will go down. Ok so maybe there is something screwy going on with task manager not showing it's actual usage of ram. I would argue that adding more ram will then increase your performance

2) nothing changes. Ok well adding ram won't help at all

3) performance increases. This is the best result you can go around selling services of removing ram and increasing performance.

All I can speak to is that I had some problems with toons losing follow in Shat on there epic flyers. Upgrading my ram helped this alot.

[Hachoo]

Actually WoW is only using 1.4G...1.5G total with firefox and keyclone. Maybe I'll try that later.

I did make 1 tweak to my video card that upped the FR a few per second. In the Nvidia control panel theres an optimization for dual monitors on a single card, and I changed that to single monitor single card, it did help some. Lowering the 4 clone windows to maxfpsbk 5 didn't see to help at all.

[Hachoo]

Another update - prior to just now I was running my main WoW and 1 clone WoW on CPU0, and the other 3 clone WoWs on CPU1. Moved all 4 clones to CPU1 with just the main on CPU0 - this has upped my framerate by 5-10 in most places, including shatt. When I land in shatt now I can actually run around immediately at around 20-24fps, clones don't lose follow. Although now if I'm in shatt and switch to my clones it takes longer to be able to click on a quest guy or whatnot but thats really just in shatt.

So that definitely helped. Think I might try to overclock my CPU tonight...its a 2.2GHz Socket 939 X2 from awhile back, thinking I'll just try to bump it to 2.4 or 2.6 and see what happens.

Edit, figured i'd also add that even with all 5 clones in the center of shatt, my wows are using like 330MB of memory each.

[Hachoo]

Holy schnite...

I just OC'd my Athlon 4400+ (2.2GHz) to 2.53GHz, and my framerate in org on my main window went from 30 to 45.

Not sure why this matters even though the CPU isn't even hardly in use but I guess that clears up a lot of what the issue is. I think between the OC and the moving the clones to 1 CPU helped a ton. Will keep testing.