Fixed my first problem but now another

[Muted]

Hello all,

The other day I posted about my system crashing alot. And people responed saying to check the ram. well it turns out that 1 stick of 1gig ram was bad. I took it out and all my crashing problems went away.

Thank god

But now something new I never seen before.

When I load up my wow games.. wich ever wow window im using ( that windo runs as smooth as silk ) and the other wow windows are running slower (more choppy looking).

Even if I only turn on 1 wow..... and just stay in teh char create screen it runs real smoooooooooooth, but as soon as I click out to desktop. Bang you look over at the wow screen and its slow.

Its almost like teh computer is sucking more power to whatever program I am curently looking at.



It has never ever been this way

Could it be that Inow only have 3gigs of ram and not 3.5 gigs.... I had 4 sticks of 1 gig ram

And im Viste 32 with a good video card

Sorry for typos I have the flu /and very out of it



Muted

thanks Muted

[elsegundo]

yes. but when you switch, does it make your now-active window run smoother? this should be the case.

also, do you have your ram set up optimally? you now have three so im guessing you were using four 1 gig ram sticks. could be problem with ram controller so put your ram in these banks: bank 0, bank 1 and bank 2. leave last bank empty.
usually mobos are set up this way.
ram controller 1 is connected to ram bank 0 and 2.
ram controller 2 is connected to ram bank 1 and 3.

best to do would be to get a matching ram stick for your last bank. try it and see if that fixes your problem.

[Muted]

Yup. what ever window the mouse hovers over runs just as smooth as silk

I will try the ram trick you said

thx for the tip

[Hachoo]

If the window you select is smooth as silk and the rest are choppy its because you have /console maxfpsbk set low. Either the program you're using to multibox (keyclone, etc) is setting that for you (most likely) or you set it yourself.

Ideally you WANT the windows that aren't active to be slower otherwise your video card probably won't be able to keep up. I usually set my "background" windows to 10fps and load them up behind the main window so I don't even see them. If I bring one to the foreground it speeds up anyway so its not a big deal.