Pulling my hair out LOW FPS

[Ualaa]

Before my upgrade I was running a similar system to yours.

Q6600, stock speed.
8gb DDR2 ram at 800mhz
150gb Raptor 10,000rpm
Nvidia 8800 GTX and later Sapphire 4870 X2
Vista Home Premium 64-Bit.

When the 8800 was in the system I was using Keyclone. Could get 30 FPS in Shattrath on the slaves and up to 60 on the main.

With the upgrade to the 4870, one account could run smooth with much higher settings then the 8800. But with five running, I had to severely lower the FPS or slave toons would freeze during flight paths. This was still with Keyclone. I had slaves set to 8 FPS and the main capped at 30 FPS.

With a worse processor and graphics card (8800) I had better FPS, running 5 toons.
There has to be a setting or configuration somewhere.

[nissen]

Before my upgrade I was running a similar system to yours.

Q6600, stock speed.
8gb DDR2 ram at 800mhz
150gb Raptor 10,000rpm
Nvidia 8800 GTX and later Sapphire 4870 X2
Vista Home Premium 64-Bit.

When the 8800 was in the system I was using Keyclone. Could get 30 FPS in Shattrath on the slaves and up to 60 on the main.

With the upgrade to the 4870, one account could run smooth with much higher settings then the 8800. But with five running, I had to severely lower the FPS or slave toons would freeze during flight paths. This was still with Keyclone. I had slaves set to 8 FPS and the main capped at 30 FPS.

With a worse processor and graphics card (8800) I had better FPS, running 5 toons.
There has to be a setting or configuration somewhere.

there is a difference in how innerspace does things ( adjust me if i im wrong here ) , but innerspace will render all screens at the same resolution and then scale it down all the time while others like keyclone will render main screen in f.ex 1600x1080 , client screens in 640x500 * 4 . . innerspace will however render screen 5*1600x1080, then scale them down so a little extra performance drop is to be excpected ?. anyways he should be able to run innerspace without much slowdown. on low wow is extremely little resource mongering.

[Whowantstoknow]

It looks to me that you are using a vsync with a monitor refresh rate of 75Hz. Turn off vsync and report your new fps.

[Ualaa]

I upgraded to the i7 still using Keyclone.
And then switched to IS Boxer 2 weeks later.

IS Boxer is a little slower then Keyclone for the same graphic settings.
But the difference is not that much.

He certainly shouldn't be getting the FPS he is reporting (2.2).

[suicidesspyder]

I know you all might see this as dumb but.... I had a similar problem with drop out issues like he has described. Did everything to now prevail. Then for shits and giggles i had a new router and put that on and refreashed system. Believe it or not this worked. I guess i wasnt getting enough internet boost to handle all incoming and outgoing traffic. So just try it, it might work.

[Nighthawk38]

Well, here's the latest update. I downloaded GPU-Z and it shows my gpu temp at idle (no apps running) at 109 C. Temp with 5 instances of WoW running, 117 C. No idea what is considered normal, so someone more knowledgeable will need to enlighten me, but that seems rather hot.

Second, regarding VSync : I am assuming that means "Vertical Synch" on the video options page in WoW. I turned that off (unchecked the box) on all instances of WoW, and with 5 instances running, manually started (no ISBoxer) all at 800 x 600 res and graphics set to LOW, I am getting 6 - 8 fps.

One other thing I noticed while trying to figure this out. In my original WTF file, it has a setting of SET gx VSync "0" however, that does not appear anywhere in the WTF files that ISBoxer created.

Hope this may help a little.

And thanks again to all of you providing input and suggestions, I greatly appreciate it.

[Nighthawk38]

Also, my video card is a 9500 GS Nvidia, not a 9800 sorry for this mistake

[Svpernova09]

All things being equal. You *should* be able to run 5 wows at a playable FPS. People who say that this card can't run 5, or can't run 5 at playable, unless they know something specific about this card, I say this card should be able to. I run a 8400GS PCI-E 512mb card, and it's my bottleneck and I still manage 20-30 FPS on main, 10 on each slave.

Does your video card require power? can your PSU handle it?
Do you have Aero running? Tried disabling it?
Any bios updates that may impact video performance?
Do you get any better FPS in any other game?
Make sure you're up to date on all your windows updates?

Forgive me if you've done all this, but just trying to cover more bases.

[Coltimar]

109c is very high. That's almost 230 F. Are you going to be around today? We can discuss some of the ISBoxer stuff as well as your CPU temps on vent or skype or something.

[Fizzler]

109C is crazy high. I am over clocked with a 920 at 51C idle and 65C when running 5 box