Any tricky ways to handle Dalaran x5?

[Hachoo]

Ok so heres the deal. 5 boxing for me works fine everywhere but Dalaran. I get >30FPS on my main window 100% of the time, my RAM is never fully used, etc. When I enter Dalaran, however, the memory usage of EACH WoW window that is inside Dalaran doubles (literally - my Main window will go from using 320MB to 640MB, etc).

This causes massive swapping which means I can't even enter Dalaran with all 5 accounts. Honestly, if I leave say my 4 clones in Conquest hold and then fly to Dalaran with JUST my main account, I still get <10FPS on my main account while shes in Dalaran.

Has anyone found any good tricks to temporarily solve this problem long enough to get an entire team into Dalaran? Are there any options to completely degrade video quality (say on my clones) and/or number of objects shown for a short period of time to run through there?

Suggesting I upgrade my PC is not an option - I already have a good video card (9800GT), my CPU is already overclocked, and upgrading CPU to more cores and/or upgrading memory would require either a new motherboard, new memory, and/or a new OS which is just way out of my price range right now.

Just curious if anyone had found any tricks or found any way to make Dalaran x 5 manageable at all at this point. Thanks in advance!

[pengwynman]

try disabling addons. there are some (like questhelper) that cause problems when logging into dalaran. i get about 10-20 fps on my main when i go into dalaran with all 5. it's a pain.

[SlayerX]

You could try the following:
Add another hard drive to your computer and throw 2-3 of ur wow there. I added 2 hard drives and spread out my wows (main has one instance, each new drive has 2 for 5 total)

For me this changed how fast things would load when I walked around and improved performance. it cuts down on 5 wows and whatever else is thrashing the drive so much.

Again this works for me, not saying for everyone.

Also, disable extra addons or disable them if your planning to go to dalaran (annoying i know), it should help it some.

Other then that, you could do 2 at a time or something, more time wasting I know, but alot better then crawling around for an hr just to use the bank. Also make sure shadows and other video stuff is off and down. Clip plane etc.

[zanthor]

I upgraded from 4gb to 8gb running Vista64 and dalaran became quite tolerable. The only bottleneck I'm seeing now is my CPU which is a 2.3ghz phenom quad core (with tlb erratta).

[pengwynman]

i dobut this will help but it could nevr hurt.

Add another hard drive to your computer and throw 2-3 of ur wow there. I added 2 hard drives and spread out my wows (main has one instance, each new drive has 2 for 5 total)

For me this changed how fast things would load when I walked around and improved performance. it cuts down on 5 wows and whatever else is thrashing the drive so much.

Again this works for me, not saying for everyone.

ok, not really necessary to actually add another hard drive, but that does bring up the question How are you managing your wow program files? symlinking at all? i found that symlinking improved my city performance a ton

[TheBigBB]

This isn't going to be that helpful, but I run Dalaran very smoothly and can mount and fly around outside it with 5 characters on one computer now. The catch is that I'm running off a dual quad core Mac with 2x NVIDIA 8800 512MB video cards and 8GB RAM. Yeah.... When I used 4GB RAM and one video card, I couldn't handle it. It sucks.

[Hachoo]

I already have all the hardware/OS tweaks done that are possible.

I have an X2 2.53GHz dual core, 3GB of memory, XP 32bit, 2 SATA 7200RPM hard drives (2 WoW on 1, 3 on another), data and cache folders for all 4 clones are symlinked to primary folder. Registry change for latency trick (TCPAckDelay, etc)

Unfortunately adding more memory won't really do anything unless I also upgrade my OS, and right now I'm not willing to spend the money to do that (plus I hate vista). Also if I was going to do that I'd want to go to a quad core processor also which would require a new motherboard which make the costs go way out of control.

So anyway, just looking for WoW tricks really that could help.

Only quest addon I use is Carbonite but I will try disabling that before I go to Dalaran again. I also only really use addons on my main account, my 4 clones ONLY use ctmod (and only a few submodules) and multiboxer v2. Its really ridiculous how hard Dalaran hits. Like I said, 30-45FPS on my main account outside of Dalaran, and then if I take ONLY my main account to Dalaran and leave the other 4 somewhere else I drop to <10.

[Siaea]

First time I got ported to dalaran (with the quest at 74) 3 of my clients crashed. I then made the mistake of setting my hearth there, so every time I wanted to go to Northrend (or just leave an instance) it would take 10 minutes to load all 5 clients, with 2 or 3 of them inevitably crashing. I just moved my hearth back to somewhere else, and really try to avoid the place if I can, or load 2 at a time. It really sucks, I hope they do something about the resources used there. I never had that problem with Shat.

[pengwynman]

I already have all the hardware/OS tweaks done that are possible.

I have an X2 2.53GHz dual core, 3GB of memory, XP 32bit, 2 SATA 7200RPM hard drives (2 WoW on 1, 3 on another), data and cache folders for all 4 clones are symlinked to primary folder. Registry change for latency trick (TCPAckDelay, etc)

Unfortunately adding more memory won't really do anything unless I also upgrade my OS, and right now I'm not willing to spend the money to do that (plus I hate vista). Also if I was going to do that I'd want to go to a quad core processor also which would require a new motherboard which make the costs go way out of control.

So anyway, just looking for WoW tricks really that could help.

Only quest addon I use is Carbonite but I will try disabling that before I go to Dalaran again. I also only really use addons on my main account, my 4 clones ONLY use ctmod (and only a few submodules) and multiboxer v2. Its really ridiculous how hard Dalaran hits. Like I said, 30-45FPS on my main account outside of Dalaran, and then if I take ONLY my main account to Dalaran and leave the other 4 somewhere else I drop to <10.

unfortunately, i just don't see you getting higher than ~10fps with the specs you listed. dalaran brings even the best systems to their knees... sure you're only taking one into dalaran but just having those other instances of wow taking up resources is going to have a pretty big effect. there really aren't any other tricks i can think of that would give a noticeable increase.

[FIra]

I run a 5man and I can't go to dalaran for more than 5minutes. My screens artifacts like crazy after it lags in 5 minutes.

8800gtx
Dualcore E6600
4gig ram
3 harddrives 2/2/1 accounts