Alterac Valley FPS

[jak3676]

Can you elaborate on the SSD fix? I just ordered a 2nd PC (found a cheap quad core rig on ebay) that looks about like your setup, minus the SSD of course.

Theocrafting warning here -

I have to think that if adding the SSD helped that much, it must have been because something was getting loaded from disk in the middle of the fight. I thought for BG's (and all instanced content) that WoW would have loaded all it needed into RAM. I wonder if something was getting loaded into virtual memory (i.e. back to the hard drive) because you were actually maxing RAM usage. If you were getting lots of lag and bad FPS at the start of the instance, then I'd attibute it to stuff still loading from the HD. Maybe I'm underestimating how much stuff WoW has to load on the fly?

[defactoman]

When I had the problem in my system I was running it on as 72-00 RPM 180ish GB hard drive that was about 75% full (the idea is any hd over 50% full shows a performance drop). I had 2 SSD 32 GB hard drives, one of which i used for my normal single player wow (different addons..etc) and the other was running as a backup OS.

I reformated it, droped a copy of my multiboxing WoW on it and things got a lot better. Id say I received an increase of about 10fps from dropping it on my SSD in the larger battles. I didn't think it would make a difference, but looks like a lot more loading was going on in AV then expected during the larger battles.

I don't think i was maxing my RAM...i only 4 box and dont creep up too far past 5GB of RAM usage anytime im looking. During these trouble times I was running the nvidia system monitor to keep tabs on everything.

Windows Vista could of very well been doing something anyways with the drive during the larger AV battles.