Any tricky ways to handle Dalaran x5?

[Dominian]

My setup is:

Quad 2.8ghz 9550,4gb ram,1gb screencard(280 something,cant remember and im at work)

This is how my clients are spread:

c: Main wow folder with the original DATA folder

e: wow2 and wow3

h: wow4 and wow5

All are symlinked from the c: drive and im wondering if this is a bold thing to do?

My c: drive is a 10000rpm drive while e: and h: is 7500rpm.

I run Vista 32 and it if i move all 5 clients into Dalaran everything freeze, Shatrath is doable but NOT with tons of other players in it.

I run everything else SMOOTH apart from Dalaran and shatrath, ofc i can struggle abit in Orgrimmar at peak times but i usualy dont lose slaves.

Its pretty clear that 3.3gb of effective ram isnt enough for 5 clients!

But im realy not sure how to handle the clients!

This is my affinity settings btw:

Main Char: Use core 1 and 2.

Slave 2: Use core 2

Slave 3: Use core 3

Slave 4: Use core 4

Slave 5: use core 3 and 4

Using 1 core on my main window is far from enough since i got heavy lag when i tried that.

[newways]

I'm in the same boat. I have to stage my toons through dalaran making sure there is no more than two in at any given time.

I'm running windows 7 32 bit(going to try 64 bit this weekend)
4 gigs of ram
Q6600
Nvidia GTX260

Is there an easy to follow guide on symlinking? i'm not into programming and some of the disclaimers I've read make me a bit nervous.

[Kicksome]

my CPU is maxed out when in Dalaran. I have 2 drives, (1 ssd), 8 gigs ram, 64 bit os. My quad core q6600 @2.8ghz spikes to 100% when I'm in the town and there are a decent number of people there. Same for WG. So it's not HD or Memory for me, it's all CPU.

[pinotnoir]

Once I quit running 5 wows on my q6600 8gig ram machine dalaran has become like any other city. I use my q6600 to run 2 wows and my new i7 12gig ram to run the other three. It's 100% better! A q6600 worked fine in BC running 5 wows. However, in wotlk it just doesnt cut it. My advice for anyone with a q6600 would be to box using 2 pc.

[king.pa]

I've bought new ram sticks : 8 GB now.. I've removed the windows swap file.; meaning all is handled into ram... my main wow takes 1.1 GB ram in dalaran and the 3 other 800 MB ... in dalaran, crowded.. my PC uses 6,5 GB of ram (firefox and some other apps launched in background...

8 GB was the last REAL upgrade I needed .. now dalaran is almost like any other area.. the /follow never brokes again and I can use my mounts in dalaran streets

[Thulos]

Once I quit running 5 wows on my q6600 8gig ram machine dalaran has become like any other city. I use my q6600 to run 2 wows and my new i7 12gig ram to run the other three. It's 100% better! A q6600 worked fine in BC running 5 wows. However, in wotlk it just doesnt cut it. My advice for anyone with a q6600 would be to box using 2 pc.

I could not agree with this more. About a month ago I was completely frustrated with how my q6600, 8ghz memory, GTX 260 was running Dalaran and some areas of the game. I was torn between upgrading to an i7 and a bigger video card or fixing up my broken second machine. After much debate I bought a cheap motherboard 4 gigs of memory and a 3ghz dual core processor for my second machine and spent under $200. I added a 22inch mounted vertically for another $250 with the Ergotran mount. I now run all 5 clients (3 on the q6600 and 2 on the dual core) with absolutely zero lag in dalaran. On top of that because I'm using 4 monitors I no longer have to stare at a bunch of very small instances of wow. The lowest resolution I use is on the 22inch vertical mount where I run 2 wow's at 1050x880. I couldn't be happier. The last upgrade I need is a vertical mount for my 2 19inch monitors.

[HPB]

I'm sure it was mentioned somewhere on the forums before. If you're having problems in Dalaran, turn Magic Effects all the way down in your Video Settings. For some reason many items and architectural features in this city are made to glow and have an abundant amount of magical effects going on. Even in an empty room with no other players.... Turning those down makes a huge different for a lot of folks. When someone in the guild mentions they are having lag in town, that's the first thing we always recommend and it does the trick.

[Phanes]

Upgrade to a 64 bit and load up on the RAM. I was constantly spinning my VRaptor in Dalaran. Once I went to 12 gigs from 6 it smoothed right out. My FPS usually dip in Dalaran to about 100 or so.

I have page swap set on auto handle via Vista. I should probably make it go all RAM but I get great performance as it is.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Holy ballbag with your foot batman! Dalaran brought my systems to their knees. I have 3 boxes. Two of them run a pair of slaves each and the main box runs the leader. Leader was fine. but both of my other boxes took about 5min to load into dalaran and only lasted about 10 more minutes before wow either locked up hard, or crashed with an error report to bliz. They are not exactly weak machines. They are Dell 9150's with 2gigs of ram each dual core P4's and big honky Nvidia 9800GT's with 512megs of ram and running a pair of 10k rpm drives in a raid 0. The only addon they use is Jamba. Been playing wow on them since 2k6 and never so much as ran into a hickup but kudos to Dalran.

Even after a reboot I wasnt able to log them back in. I had to log them one at a time and fly them out on my main XPS720 box. My pagefile went through the roof to around 3gb and the cpu was having a seizure at 99% useage.

Im just about to upgrade my XPS 720 to windows 7 64 bit with 8gig of ram. a Q9550 cpu and put the big honkey video cards in it for a gig of sli lovin and 5 box just on it with a 30in monitor, but now im having doubts.