What needs upgrading to increase fps?

[pinotnoir]

Ok I am no computer expert and I need some advice. I am playing 5 wows on one machine using keyclone. In BC I never had any problem with lag. I use a small number of add ons and have my grahics settings very low. Leveling in wotlk was not too bad until I hit dalaran and other places that contained a ton of people Even a 10man raid sends my games into choppy sinclair mode. In order for me to continue playing this game I think there needs to be some upgrading.

Here is a list of my computers specs....

Intel Q6600 Processor
8gig Corsair Dominator DDR ram
Asus P5w dh deluxe mb (pretty old)
Vista 64
Seagate Barracuda 500g drive ( right now I use 1 wow directory located on this drive)
WD Raptor 150g drive ( this use to be my main drive until I changed from XP to vista 64)
2 ATI 3870 512meg video cards (not in crossfire)
3 LCD monitors ( 24 main and 2 20inch sides)


This setup worked fine in BC. However, its damn near impossible to play in some areas. In the bg's it can get pretty choppy making game play even more frustrating. If you tech guys know how I can improve my game performance let me know.

[pengwynman]

do you have your wow directory symlinked? this can help decrease load times and generally improves performance in large cities
try messing with cpu affinity. also overclocking my Q9550 from 2.8 -> 3.4 gave me a HUGE boost in fps

[wowphreak]

Its not the hardware.

There isnt enough info there to really help yeh.

have yeh set maxbkfps maxfps ?

have yeh set cpu affinity?

what res are yeh running at?

have yeh setup vista for performance?

are yeh loading from separate installs?

what addon are yeh running? are yeh running addon on all instance of wow? some addons are considerably more resource intensive.

Yeh have the latest drivers installed for yer hardware?

Have yeh minimized the amount of services running in vista?

[pinotnoir]

Everything runs from 1 wow directory on my c: drive. I do not have anything symlinked or know how to do that.


Its not the hardware.

There isnt enough info there to really help yeh.

have yeh set maxbkfps maxfps ?

I have it set to 15fps alts up to 40fps max on main or whenever my alts become mains.

have yeh set cpu affinity?

Yes I have this set in keyclone.

what res are yeh running at?

The resolutions are setup in keyclone for each maximizer section. My side monitors have two blocks that are 1048,840 and my main screen has 1 block thats 1870,1125.


have yeh setup vista for performance?

Under advanced system settings I have the visual set for performance with true type fonts selected only.

are yeh loading from separate installs?

One install on my seagate drive.

what addon are yeh running? are yeh running addon on all instance of wow? some addons are considerably more resource intensive.

I have jamba, cartagrapher, bagmon, deadly boss mods, titan panel, quest helper ( on my main only ), Auctioneer I turn on when I do a scan and buy stuff, Vanaskos ( driving me nuts with notes popping on my screen everytime someone is close. I may turn this off. ), and bankstack.

Yeh have the latest drivers installed for yer hardware?

As far as I know yes.

Have yeh minimized the amount of services running in vista?

I have not changed much from the default install. I dont know anything about vista services. I do have indexing turned off on both drives.

[jettzypher]

deadly boss mod

i may be wrong, but dont the boss warning exist in-game now? last time i had one of these add-ons was bigwigs before BC came out. havent had one since and stil get those raid warnings that pop up. unless it does something completely different than raid warnings.

EDIT:
purpose of post...so this would be a waste of memory, no?

[Coltimar]

PowerShell script to create symbolically linked (mklink) copies of WoW is a good thread. I STRONGLY recommend a second hard drive to run WoW from. Windows sticks it's nose into anything running on the same drive that it is on. Symlinking will probably solve your problem, as it did mine.

[pinotnoir]

PowerShell script to create symbolically linked (mklink) copies of WoW[/url] is a good thread. I STRONGLY recommend a second hard drive to run WoW from. Windows sticks it's nose into anything running on the same drive that it is on. Symlinking will probably solve your problem, as it did mine.

You think I should move it to the Raptor drive and symlink? I am going to check that symlink thing out.. I dont know what it is. Going to read it now. Right now I only have 1 wow directory. I dont use 5 different installs. Do I still need to mess with symlinking if I only use 1 wow install to run my 5 accounts?

[aboron]

The one main thing i'd try in that setup is get the WoW folder over onto the raptor. This will have 2 good effects for one action:

1) the wow data files will be on the faster drive
2) the operating system files and swap will not be running on the same drive/channel as wow is using.

[pinotnoir]

The one main thing i'd try in that setup is get the WoW folder over onto the raptor. This will have 2 good effects for one action:

1) the wow data files will be on the faster drive
2) the operating system files and swap will not be running on the same drive/channel as wow is using.

I had my swap file on the raptor... But today after reading someone elses post I disabled my swap file. I guess if you have 8gig of ram you dont need one according to the post. Since turning off swap file I have not noticed any difference from when I had one eneabled. Moving the wow folder to the other drive will be pretty easy. On a side note I remember reading somewhere that this seagate I have is equal or faster than the raptor. It's been awhile. This is one of the first 10k rpm sata raptors so maybe it was talking about the first ones.

[aboron]

To speed up the large number of random seeks for little bits of wow image data, I'd go with the drive that has the lowest average latency. The raptor 150 is listed as 2.99ms and the seagate at 4.19ms .