New FPS issue!

[Lyonheart]

I have a beefy rig. Vista 64 ultimate..8 gigs of DDR3 ram and a 280GTX card. I play 5 accounts everyday, all day with next to zero lag and 60+ FPS on my main window. Just today i log in and am running very slow on all windows when i have more than 3 logged in.

I have tried all the things i know. I disabled all addons, turned off sound..set everyone on min setting..ect. I Seem to only slow down when I have 4 or 5 running now. I'm wondering if anyone knows when i might have went bad. I logged into Far Cry2.. have everything on max and run smooth like butter at 45+ FPS. It seems its something to do with multi windows of wow ( after 3 ) And ideas?

[elsegundo]

first thing i always do when fps drops like that is open up a can of dust-off and clean the inside of my rig.

[dRiN]

I have a beefy rig. Vista 64 ultimate..8 gigs of DDR3 ram and a 280GTX card. I play 5 accounts everyday, all day with next to zero lag and 60+ FPS on my main window. Just today i log in and am running very slow on all windows when i have more than 3 logged in.

I have tried all the things i know. I disabled all addons, turned off sound..set everyone on min setting..ect. I Seem to only slow down when I have 4 or 5 running now. I'm wondering if anyone knows when i might have went bad. I logged into Far Cry2.. have everything on max and run smooth like butter at 45+ FPS. It seems its something to do with multi windows of wow ( after 3 ) And ideas?

try /console maxfps 0 and /console maxbkfps 0

Was posted on wow-euruope.com forums that it might help.

[Lyonheart]

Nothing working so far 8(. Figures, just hours before WotLK, I end up with one of those "mysterious" PC issues, grrr!

[elsegundo]

did you do anything yesterday or the day before to your computer?

[xtobbenx]

It might just be the expansion etc and by some reason the fps drops.. I allways have low fps in citys and outland.. are you sure the fps you now refars to is taken from the same please as you was last time... `??!!!

[Lyonheart]

I got it worked out. I was using my setting macros to change from high to low setting. Well the new shadows needed to be turned off while running more than 3 clients. I had them off by default but they got turned on somehow. I can run all 5 clients at high settings minus shadows now hehe.

[Noids99]

I'm surprised that the shadows made that much difference esp. with a 280 rig. I am looking at building a new desktop to box on in the next 3 months and have been trying to toss up between running 5 chars on a 2560x1600 screen or getting a multi screen setup. Either way I was sort of hoping that I could max all settings on all 5 if I got a 280, but maybe 2 x 280 is in order for this? Thoughts? Anyone got this sort of setup who can vouch for its effectiveness? Alternative suggestions.

Cheers

[pengwynman]

I'm surprised that the shadows made that much difference esp. with a 280 rig. I am looking at building a new desktop to box on in the next 3 months and have been trying to toss up between running 5 chars on a 2560x1600 screen or getting a multi screen setup. Either way I was sort of hoping that I could max all settings on all 5 if I got a 280, but maybe 2 x 280 is in order for this? Thoughts? Anyone got this sort of setup who can vouch for its effectiveness? Alternative suggestions.

Cheers

from what i've read/heard, sli doesn't improve wow performance (or at least multi-wow performance) so you'd be better off with just 1. That's what I got, running my main 1680x1050 and 4x alts 800x600

[NuG050]

from what i've read/heard, sli doesn't improve wow performance (or at least multi-wow performance) so you'd be better off with just 1. That's what I got, running my main 1680x1050 and 4x alts 800x600

I've read and tested a bunch of setups for playing WoW (single client) and it appears that WoW is processor dependent rather than graphic dependent. Though with the newer shadows, it can prove to be more graphic intensive than before, its main bottleneck (if you want to call it that) is the processor...