Framerate just tanked.....

[pythos]

Hi folks,

Been running 5 accounts for a while now with no problems. All of a sudden today I log on and once I get 5 instances of WoW going my framefate tanks. Usually it runs around 25-30 no problem. My system is as follows...

Vista 64
Intel Quad Core 2.8Ghz
8GB of RAM
Nvidia 9600GT video card.
2 21" monitors

I don't think it's the system or else I would have had problems before this. I tried loading individual instances without keyclone maximizer and that did not help. What's odd is if I close down 1 of the 5 instances and just run 4 it seems to be ok. I'm downloading the latest video drivers now although the ones I had were only maybe a month or 2 old. Any thoughts?

[Falkor]

Do you usually have windows media player open?
Just out of curiosity try running all 5 with windows media player open but not playing any music unless you want to of course
You need to make sure you have the "Now Playing" tab selected in wmp.

There is an issue with the timing on dual/quad core processors that only occurs in wow and limits the FPS rather low.

Give it a shot and let me know.

[pythos]

Never have WMP open...I'm a WinAmp guy =)

I tried opening WMP and it dosen't help. Latest Nvidia drivers installed and that didn't help either. I'm at a loss as to what the heck happened from last night to today.

I also tried setting the max FPS in the keyclone maximizer to 25 for my clones and 40 for my main just to see what happened. Didn't think that was it though because I've still have the problem even without Keyclone running.

[suicidesspyder]

Yea if someone finds out let me know as well because my laptop was banging it out before no lag no fps issue smooth sailing. Then one day i log in the blah i get 10fps on slaves and 36 on main then after a lil while it gets to where main is 10 and slaves are less. Also have the issue of the drop out for a little bit then it picks back up fine then drops again.

[Falkor]

Ok you could slowly be pushing down towards hardware now....

Do you run all you're wow.exe from the same folder?
Yes: Have you done a hard disk defrag lately..

Does the FPS appear to be decreased on the login screen or just in game?
This would further push towards hardware related issues.

Does it always occur on the last wow.exe you open?
Yes: Check you're memory usuage and see if its using more then normal

I could through alot more suggestions at this but get back to me with the above first

[Falkor]

Yea if someone finds out let me know as well because my laptop was banging it out before no lag no fps issue smooth sailing. Then one day i log in the blah i get 10fps on slaves and 36 on main then after a lil while it gets to where main is 10 and slaves are less. Also have the issue of the drop out for a little bit then it picks back up fine then drops again.

When I multibox x2 on my laptop with 1Gb of ram I use to find it was rather slow and FPS was up and down more then a yoyo.
Try changing you're windows paging file to around 256mb lower and higher limit and see if this helps.

What this does is cause's programs like wow to run directly on the physical ram thus allowing you're hard disk to better serve the content and thus increasing FPS

[suicidesspyder]

Yea if someone finds out let me know as well because my laptop was banging it out before no lag no fps issue smooth sailing. Then one day i log in the blah i get 10fps on slaves and 36 on main then after a lil while it gets to where main is 10 and slaves are less. Also have the issue of the drop out for a little bit then it picks back up fine then drops again.

When I multibox x2 on my laptop with 1Gb of ram I use to find it was rather slow and FPS was up and down more then a yoyo.
Try changing you're windows paging file to around 256mb lower and higher limit and see if this helps.

What this does is cause's programs like wow to run directly on the physical ram thus allowing you're hard disk to better serve the content and thus increasing FPS

If i could be a noob for a second which i kinda am where would i change the windows paging file at. I have everything else like defrag and clean up and software run once a week auto. So one day while i am at class for 5 hrs i leave my computer on and the computer scans and everything so when i get back only thing i might have to do is quarentine viruses which is hardley ever. So just let me know where i can change paging files at thanks.

[Falkor]

Yea if someone finds out let me know as well because my laptop was banging it out before no lag no fps issue smooth sailing. Then one day i log in the blah i get 10fps on slaves and 36 on main then after a lil while it gets to where main is 10 and slaves are less. Also have the issue of the drop out for a little bit then it picks back up fine then drops again.

When I multibox x2 on my laptop with 1Gb of ram I use to find it was rather slow and FPS was up and down more then a yoyo.
Try changing you're windows paging file to around 256mb lower and higher limit and see if this helps.

What this does is cause's programs like wow to run directly on the physical ram thus allowing you're hard disk to better serve the content and thus increasing FPS

If i could be a noob for a second which i kinda am where would i change the windows paging file at. I have everything else like defrag and clean up and software run once a week auto. So one day while i am at class for 5 hrs i leave my computer on and the computer scans and everything so when i get back only thing i might have to do is quarentine viruses which is hardley ever. So just let me know where i can change paging files at thanks.

vista or xp?

[suicidesspyder]

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

[Falkor]

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.