Framerate just tanked.....

[Ticks]

Sorry my bad vista. I have 4gb ram so i should be good from what your other post states.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/0...ing-file-size/

Initial Size: 256MB
Max Size: 256MB

You can try just removing the page file completely but I've seen alot of computers lose drivers or have issues afterwards so its recommended to set a 256MB lower and upper limit.

The reason behind setting the same values is it stops the paging file in windows dynamically increasing its self, which cause's more CPU/Hard disk time to be used up.

A reboot will be required afterwards and you should notice Wow loads quite a bit quicker as well as maybe a slight FPS increase.

Let me know how it goes.

The swap file is a vital component of the operating system and actually improves performance, not degrades it. The pagefile is used to store data in a contiguous file located on a hard drive. Data that is used less frequently or when swapped out from memory, it is stored in the swapfile. This means that when the OS needs data that doesn't reside in physical memory, it has to go to the disk. If the data was in memory once before, it would know exactly where to go in the swapfile to get it. If the swapfile isn't there, it has to find it again from somewhere on the disk. Also, Windows also uses a prefetch fucntion to actually forecast what files you need and puts it into the pagefile before the application actually requests it.

If your're experiencing high disk activity there are things you can try to reduce it. First, disk drives with more buffer memory helps tons. Second, the faster the hard drive in terms of RPM is very helpful. 7200 RPM is the minimum for mutliboxing on a single system. 10K or even 15K is a huge performance boost. I am going to assume everyone that multiboxes on a single system maxes out their memory to 4gb or more (64bit) so I won't bother saying anything about memory qty.

As far as tweaking the pagefile, you can set the minimum and maximum swapfile size to 4096MB so it doesn't have to automatically adjust itself and you can put it on a separate drive from where the OS is running from. Also, defrag the drive where the swapfile is located often.

[Svpernova09]

dell xps m1530

According to http://www.dell.com/content/products...=19&l=en&s=dhs

It's only up to 4g. I'd try to find out which motherboard you have and see if there are any tech docs out there on it. Look for your Express Service ID on the bottom of the laptop and put that into http://support.dell.com and you can pull up your part numbers to google around.

[Catamer]

Ok, I've read all of the posts about FPS and I've tried all of them.
I have even put the game on a Intel X25-e drive and sym linked it. It loads really fast and the disk drive is definately not the problem.
The problem was there before the drive and still there after the drive.
I don't believe I've ever tanked inside of an instance.
I tank when I leave an instance or go to Dalaran.
I don't think that two or three copies of wow should tank even if Dalaran is fully loaded with people.

Vista x64
I have a DQ45CB motherboard that claims to have a PCI-E 2.0 slot.
I have 8G of ram ( nothing fancy or overclocked 800M or something like that )
I have a Q9550 ( or a 3GHz quad core )
I currently have a Nvida 280 , although I have used ATI 4870 and then I have the old Nvida 8800.

of all of the combo's the Nvida 8800 never tanks my FPS while both of the PCI-E 2.0 video cards tank. I was down to 1 FPS and couldn't even hardly log off.
I'm only running 3 copies of wow on the tanking machine and at one time I was running two copies of wow and it still tanked.
The other machine I have never tanks either and it's currenty running two copies of wow and an ATI 1800XT.

I supposed the only other thing that I can think of to compare is that the tanking machine has two monitors connected to one video card.
I only ever used one monitor on the tanking machine when I was using the NVidia 8800 ( the NVidia 8800 was able to run 4 copies of wow with the FPS limited to 15 )

I suppose I can try using one monitor and see if it still tanks.

[weeep]

Try minimizing all your WoW windows (Win+D) and then restoring them. It usually helps when I suddenly get extremely low framerate, sometimes have to do this trick twice before it works.

[Falkor]

Hey falkor since you said you work with dells quick question. Ive been looking everywhere but cant get a str8 answer can the dell xps m1530 be upgraded to 8gb memory and if so can you point me to a site so i can buy the right one. Thanks.

8192MB 800 MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x4GB)

Above is the max for this laptop

[Falkor]

dell xps m1530

According to http://www.dell.com/content/products...=19&l=en&s=dhs

It's only up to 4g. I'd try to find out which motherboard you have and see if there are any tech docs out there on it. Look for your Express Service ID on the bottom of the laptop and put that into http://support.dell.com and you can pull up your part numbers to google around.

The XPS 1530 only supports upto 4GB.
The XPS M1530 supports upto 8GB in the configuation I've listed above.

Please check your information next time before posting false info.

[Falkor]

Ok, I've read all of the posts about FPS and I've tried all of them.
I have even put the game on a Intel X25-e drive and sym linked it. It loads really fast and the disk drive is definately not the problem.
The problem was there before the drive and still there after the drive.
I don't believe I've ever tanked inside of an instance.
I tank when I leave an instance or go to Dalaran.
I don't think that two or three copies of wow should tank even if Dalaran is fully loaded with people.

Vista x64
I have a DQ45CB motherboard that claims to have a PCI-E 2.0 slot.
I have 8G of ram ( nothing fancy or overclocked 800M or something like that )
I have a Q9550 ( or a 3GHz quad core )
I currently have a Nvida 280 , although I have used ATI 4870 and then I have the old Nvida 8800.

of all of the combo's the Nvida 8800 never tanks my FPS while both of the PCI-E 2.0 video cards tank. I was down to 1 FPS and couldn't even hardly log off.
I'm only running 3 copies of wow on the tanking machine and at one time I was running two copies of wow and it still tanked.
The other machine I have never tanks either and it's currenty running two copies of wow and an ATI 1800XT.

I supposed the only other thing that I can think of to compare is that the tanking machine has two monitors connected to one video card.
I only ever used one monitor on the tanking machine when I was using the NVidia 8800 ( the NVidia 8800 was able to run 4 copies of wow with the FPS limited to 15 )

I suppose I can try using one monitor and see if it still tanks.

If your graphics card has 2video outputs (DVI) then your graphics card may have a setting called "Multi Monitor Split GPU" which basically trys to divide your graphics cards processing power 50/50 across both monitors.
If you only using a single monitor you can set this option to "Single Monitor GPU" which should be available under the advanced 3d settings on your graphics cards control panel.

[suicidesspyder]

Ok falkor i have a dell xpsm 1530 but its a 2.5 ghz its got 4 gb in it now but your saying that it has to be 800 huh to work.

[Falkor]

If you we're to try and purchase a new Dell XPS M1530 on their website and choose customise the only 8GB memory option available to you will be:

8192MB 800 MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x4GB)

So going by this, this is the only type of ram/configuration you will be able to use to achieve 8GB of memory.

[suicidesspyder]

dang it lol now one other thing looked all over my latop how do i find hard drive size without opening i want to upgrade it if its at all possible.