Any tricky ways to handle Dalaran x5?

[Julgas]

I have artefact and crash when i stay too long in dalaran.
I found a way, but it's a pain in the ass.
I use keyclone and i minimize each toon windows exept for my main.

[X-Ifist]

Try making a macro whit
/script SetCVar("CameraDistanceMax",1)
not shure if it still works but it will change youre view distance to minimum.

Also save a view where all youre slaves look straight down will help youre mains fps.

[Menthu]

I got all WoW windows with Minimum settings (minimum viewdistance, no fancy gfx), except the leader that I play with.

Works fine in Dalaran.

Junglelove,

-Menthu

[Thulos]

Thread Necromancy for the win. :thumbup:

[succulent]

As others have mentioned, Dalaran performance is all about your system RAM. I hardware box, and one machine has only 2gb of ram -- it takes a very long time to zone into Dal. The rest are all 4gb+ and zone in very quickly. The video card doesn't seem to make much difference here, on of my boxes has only 32gb video ram but with 4gb system ram it's just fine in Dal.

I used to box on a single machine pre-wrath, and upgraded from 4gb to 12gb due to continued fail at the Aldor rise elevator boss -- even with 5 instances running 12gb made all the difference. (This requires a 64-bit OS of course, I'm on Macs).

[Bena]

As others have said ram is usually the bottleneck. Normally my main takes around 500MB and followers about half that. In Dal my main goes up to 1.2gb and the followers up to 800mb(?). My cpu goes up to 90% from 40% (quad 2.6). Disabling addons on followers, setting maxfps to single digits and turning off sound/graphics down will help somewhat without hw upgrades.

[Caspian]

Live in the sewer. Inn there. You can go in and out of the sewer pipe. Reagent vendor. If you have to go to the surface go 1 or 2 at a time. What more do you need?

[puppychow]

I will not live in the sewer like some criminal! I CRAVE SUNSHINE AND FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM

[emesis]

Quad-core 2.2, 8 Gb, XP Pro x64 OS, SSD drive for data cache here.

Dalaran works for me (i.e. no crashes and I can get around) but is VERY painful. 5-10 fps and moveing in small chunks to prevent follower dropoff FTW.

Been thinking about trying hardware boxing, seems like 5 very cheap crappy PCs would do pretty well with WoW actually, But i have a 2 monitor setup and don't really want to go 5 screens, even crappy ones.

[Tonuss]

As others have mentioned, Dalaran performance is all about your system RAM. I hardware box, and one machine has only 2gb of ram -- it takes a very long time to zone into Dal.

Heh, I was running my main on one computer and the other four characters on a second computer, a quad-core CPU with 2GB RAM. So my group hits 74 and get ported to Dalaran and... every... thing... comes... to... a... halt...

I really could not measure performance as frames-per-second, but literally by seconds-per-frame. Out of 2GB RAM, the amount shown as "free" in Task Manager hovered between 2-4MB, which meant I had run out of RAM and was thrashing the hard disks for all that they were worth. So I bit the bullet and upgraded that system to 8GB RAM and Vista 64 and presto... Dalaran was playable and in the 20-30 FPS range. Mind you, I always run the alts on the lowest graphics settings and at 800x600 per instance. The memory was the thing.

And then I quit playing WoW again. :S But that system is my main system now, and runs Photoshop like a dream...