Creating a second WoW folder

[wowphreak]

What operating system are yeh running.

With xp you only get about at max 3.5 gigs to use, xp also require at min 1 gig for itself to run.
So with using xp with minimum of services running and no other apps you have 2.5 gigs for apps.
Wow require anywhere from 300 megs to over 800 depending on resolution yeh play at, to where in the game yeh are.

The only time yeh should have yer harddrive pegged is when yer loading into a new area/instance and when yeh dont have enough memory and it'll try pageing out one of the wow's which will cause it to time out and log off.

vista require almost twice the amount of memory to run as compared to xp.

Your not gonna get any improvement using another folder/drive

[Tofino]

What operating system are yeh running.

With xp you only get about at max 3.5 gigs to use, xp also require at min 1 gig for itself to run.
So with using xp with minimum of services running and no other apps you have 2.5 gigs for apps.
Wow require anywhere from 300 megs to over 800 depending on resolution yeh play at, to where in the game yeh are.

The only time yeh should have yer harddrive pegged is when yer loading into a new area/instance and when yeh dont have enough memory and it'll try pageing out one of the wow's which will cause it to time out and log off.

vista require almost twice the amount of memory to run as compared to xp.

Your not gonna get any improvement using another folder/drive

Using wow folders on two physical drives, I'm able to run 4 clients at once, whereas 4 clients on a single drive chugs along at an unacceptable speed. 5 clients on a single drive is 2fps-city, and on 2 drives is a bit better but not really playable. Not sure why this is, but a post above suggesting it's swap-file-related is probably right. I just don't have the machine to 5-box right now.

[Drommon]

Given everything you said the best upgrade for you imo would be a 32gb SSD and/or 2-4gb more ram. I would lean on getting more ram first . Later get a SSD. Only put wow folders on the ssd and nothing else. If you are comfortable with symlinking you can get a performance boost with that too.

Drommon

[Tofino]

Given everything you said the best upgrade for you imo would be a 32gb SSD and/or 2-4gb more ram. I would lean on getting more ram first . Later get a SSD. Only put wow folders on the ssd and nothing else. If you are comfortable with symlinking you can get a performance boost with that too.

Drommon

I'm upgrading the whole machine in January anyway, so I'll grab 8G then. Not sure how creating symlinks helps with performance -- it's still acting on the same physical file, ne?