Quote Originally Posted by Otlecs View Post
Yes, it's a click-to-heal mod that I use on my raiding character, but you don't need to "use" it to get at the profiling features.

I can't explain why you has problems. Another mod interfering perhaps? Oddly enough, I used it just last night to see whether Quest Helper was still my biggest CPU hog (it was) and I still didn't see any performance difference once I flipped the switch.

So I'm afraid that I have nothing more to add, but will keep an eye on the thread because it's a good question and I'm curious as to why you can't get the profilers you've tried thusfar to do anything useful.
Looks like I forgot to remove AddOnProfiler, removed that and it worked fine.

Also gave LuaProfiler a try, but being unmaintained it's bugged, and I had to tweak teh TOC version string to get it working.

If I had to make a suggestion for the casual player, if you're not already using HealBot, then AddOnProfiler is easy to use and doesn't have a ton of dependencies on it.

No matter what I do, though, the Profiler fature within WoW causes a significant drop in framerates, so I guess what I was hoping for simply isn't possible (a general purpose Perf Mon running at all times.) Although there is a significant drop in framerates, WoW is still very much playable. The problem is profiling isn't something I could have enabled while running through Dalaran, I actually had to duck out to the Arena area in Dal to play around with profiling.

My goal was to determine if the severe perf-drop in AV was related to any AddOn I had loaded. I run Carbonite on all of my instances primarily for Quest-Progress sharing and for Quest Locations (TomTom) and Ant Trails. Since I 5-box with a single machine I'm starved for CPU at this point and looking to shave CPU where possible. After playing with various perf AddOns, it looks like Carbonite is one of the "dirtiest" add-ons I have loaded in terms of CPU and Memory, everything else shows nearly 0 CPU use, and extremely low memory use. Regardless, I don't think nerfing all of my AddOns will really make much difference sad story. (Also, I don't mean to down-talk Carbonite, it's a great AddOn and doesn't give me grief, just noting that of everything I have loaded it consume shte most resources.)

It sure would be nice if Blizz would update the Profiler within WoW so it didn't consume so much CPU, even nicer would be if they incorporated AddOn CPU% into the perf tooltip like they did AddOn Memory use.