Also I'm not talking about major cities, justrunning around the wilderness.

I actually did some more testing today and the biggest change for the better was when I lowered the environment view distance or terrain distance or whatever to minimum. Each notch upwards I bring that drops my FPS by 3 or so. At halfway my FPS sits around 25, but at minimum I sit at 40.

I really wanted this view distance to be increased because it makes it easier to navigate and things look better, but its not worth that big of a performance hit. Not sure why that makes such a big difference though, especially when I can have everything maxed out with 1 client and no issues.

Edit: RAM is not really an option, it would require me to get a new motherboard, new processor, and buy Vista 64, none of which I'm willing to do I would definitely update my processor to a quad core if my MB could handle it. Just looking for some proven facts as to how to tweak this. I've been a system admin for 13 years, currently a Sr. Unix System Admin so I know exactly how RAM, CPUs, Hard Drives, Video Cards, etc all function. From what I can tell there isn't a bottleneck right now based on tests, with the exception of maybe the video card, which I thought was weird.

As far as the CPU not being maxed, I can tell this because I can still open up additional programs like firefox and pidgin full speed and they work fine with no slowdown - when my CPUs get maxed those programs hardly function.

And also as I said I have like 500MB of memory free with all 5 WoWs running and a copy of firefox open Probably the fact that I hardly use any addons helps with the memory usage.

Gonna keep tweaking things and see what happens. I'll report here as I go.

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?