An attempt to push my system any further

[David]

I was looking into some console commands for wow and I noticed those that let you set fps for main and background screens.

If I would, for example, set one to 1 or 2 fps for the background windows, would that affect the casting time of dps and healing spells? So if the healer runs at 1fps and I hit my heal key, will it still cast instantly or will there be a lag?

Stupid question maybe but I`m thinking of saving another month for a good new computer while meanwhile starting to play again on my old systems. Thing with those is the part that they suck. as in:
Pc
AMD 2000+
2gigs ram
Radeon 7800 (if I`m correct)

and my laptop:
duo 1.6gig
3gigs ram

I used to run my main on my laptop and 3 adds on my pc. Framerates suck hard since both systems can`t even get more then 25fps in single boxing. Putting 2 on my laptop with PiP took laptop performance down and my pc ran just as shit with 2 as it did with 3.

That`s why I`m thinking of totally killing off the fps on slaves if it doesn`t cost me cast times. I want to run DK with 4 shamans to do instances so I cannot have that lol.

I already run at lowest of the lowest details possible to keep things going and as far as I can see it isn`t the 2gigs of ram in my pc which is causing the problem but the CPU since ram isn`t even fully used.
I looked into overclocking as well but I don`t think that that will be a big solution.

I also run vista on both systems now (xp only lets you get sata drivers of a floppy while I have no drive for it) and my pc runs at 32bit. Would 64bit and windows xp make a big difference in my case?

Hopefully I make some sence :-)

Thanks in advance.

[emesis]

Pushing down the frame rate on slaves is the #1 thing you can do in my experience to improve system performance. I have a reasonably powerful system and I still need to do this.

There are two different console commands to set frame rate, /maxfps and /maxfpsbk. /maxfpsbk is the more important of these. It limits the frame rate for WoW windows that are in the background, which will be your slave windows most of the time. I recommend setting this to 5 or so. It does not impact how the UI processes your spells/commands.

Setting other visual effect setting very low on the slaves will help as well, although you may be ultimately limited by your system from running a full 5.

In relative order of importance based on my informal testing:

1. Screen size/resolution - small
2. Aliasing - as low as possible
3. View distance - turn it down

Then, other visual settings like spell detail, etc.

[Seldum]

Also, another hint, if you aren't already doing it, kill all unnessesary programs prior to booting up Wow. That will help a bit aswell - and sometimes every bit helps