Deteriorating performance

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Ugh, here are my stats when idle:

• Physical memory used: 59% (about 7gb)
  I cannot figure out where this is going. The best I can come up with is superfetch. The highest memory process is svchost taking about 450mb usually, and one of the services it lists is superfetch.
• Nothing takes a high cpu % except wow.
• Top memory hogs (except wow): svchost.exe, chrome.exe, svchost.exe, (iTunes if I have it running). The rest are <100mb.
• The only process above 3k handles is System, which I assume is normal. The next one down is svchost at 1300.
• Only high priority process are dwm.exe, winlogon.exe and wininit.exe.

The only bad thing from that list is my physical memory used. As I said, it's always at least 50% (6gb), even when idle. With wow on, it approaches 90%. It's been like this for a while, I haven't been able to figure out why.

ILikeTwins, I use chrome and firefox exclusively. Do those still cause slowdowns with a high cache?

HPAVC, I'm going to test out all the wow stuff now.

Thanks a lot for the help everyone!

I don't see anything obvious here. The large memory usage is probably Vista doing its SuperFetch thing.

One other thing I might suggest is making sure your GPU, CPU and power supply fans are all blown out and dust-free (or close to it). Heat can cause modern CPUs/GPUs to throttle themselves, which would result in your experience.

[alcattle]

what MB software? Are the FPS limits set? Shut down Chrome and anything else that is using the network. You might have a background you do not know about. Turn off the file indexin, it sucks up bigtime resourses. You should be able to blow through WoW with that system. Hope so, it is better that mine.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Always shut down every other program before you enter wow.

Shut off the virus scanner before you enter wow, turn back on after you exit.

Try shutting down the sound in wow see what happens.


If you are technical user get this and see exactly whats starting, be carefull if you are not technical user as randomly shutting off start up programs will destroy your system.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx