Hi all. So I'm having fun with this and tried a few 3-man combinations all of which work great. I then tried 5-man and it was unplayable. I shut off all addons except Jamba/ISBoxer and minimized all perf options -- still no. I used performance monitor and was surprised to find that my bottleneck was disk usage -- while entering the game I would pin at 100% cpu, but that would drop to 50-60% during game. Memory usage (of 4G) sat around 70%. Disk usage was pinned. If I /quit and exited one of the 5, the game immediately became playable, though not as "nice" as with just 3.

So if disk is my problem, I'm hoping that having a second WoW folder on a different physical drive (and assigning toons 4 and 5 to that folder) might fix this. But I'm guessing that simply copying the entire WoW folder over to the other drive isn't going to do it. Do I need to reinstall (argh!) or is there a simpler solution? I looked through the wiki and previous posts and found no answer.

Of course there's always the possibility that I'll do this and the bottleneck will be the throughput on the HD controller/bridge/whatever it is these days, but I can't find that out until I have the second folder can I . Thanks all.