Item bar lag?

[Lyonheart]

been awhile since I started this thread. I wanted to wait and try all the suggested fixes. I have lowered my background FPS, turned off quest watcher..etc. I have two issues that seem to be related. As time goes by I get longer and longer delays for both my item bar, as I have discussed, and when i click on quest dialog, just like with the item bar lag, I get delay. Both the item bar and quest interaction between alts works perfect for about 20 minuets than starts to delay.


system specs are

Windows7 64 ultimate
core i7 920
SSD drive
12gigs ddr3
Gf 280GTX video card

[moosejaw]

There is a communication logjam on your setup for sure. Disabling Jamba Quest Watcher cured it for me. Keeping a seperate keybind for "/console reloadui" (on all instances) for when it gets bad is also a good idea. That will reset all the comms for you and help with troubleshooting your changes.

Double check that you unchecked Quest watcher in the Jamba settings and pushed it to all the slaves.

I don't recall if I set my background fps to 25 or 20. I'll have to check that tonight and correct all of my team settings if they are too low.

Good luck Lyon and keep the updates coming.

[Maxion]

I tried setting my background fps to 21 and quested for a while on some lowbies with the watcher on, and after a while I ended up having to manually click for quests in all the windows pretty often since the communications channel was too clogged.
Definitely going to keep the watcher disabled until this is fixed, really nice when it works though, but I still hate being unable to click anything behind it, especially since it prevents clicks for its full size regardless of how many quests are actually being tracked.

[moosejaw]

I went back to Quest helper for quest tracking for now. Reasons:

Quest watcher- comm issues, I don't want to scroll the list, the double watch list with default blizz tracker.

Blizz tracker- doesn't do party, quirky positioning depending on addons used, will always be stable, list extends too far sometimes and overlaps my UI.

Questhelper- good filters, party tracking on one line, easy to move, my nine year old can see all his missing quests easier than with the Blizz tracker. Kids these days

[Lyonheart]

does questhelper remove the bliz default one?

[DLoweinc]

Some drakes not mounting is because your toons are most likely all standing on top of each other, the vehicles don't like to all start in the same spot, so only some end up getting mounted.

The solution is to hit your spread out keys first.

This did indeed fix my problem.

Thanks Maxion and Zub

[alcattle]

does questhelper remove the bliz default one?

I do not think it gets rid of everything but I have not used QH since the Blizzard Quest tracker changed

[moosejaw]

Quest helper does remove the blizz tracker.

[Jafula]

For those that are interested:

I have added a new option to Jamba - Core: Communications called "Boost Jamba to Jamba Communications**". Basically it changes the settings in ChatThrottleLib to be faster at the risk of disconnections... The option will be on be default but you can turn it off.

function AJM:BoostCommunication()
    if AJM.db.boostCommunication == true then
        -- 2000 seems to be safe if NOTHING ELSE is happening. let's call it 800.
        ChatThrottleLib.MAX_CPS = 1200 -- was 800
        -- Guesstimate overhead for sending a message; source+dest+chattype+protocolstuff
        ChatThrottleLib.MSG_OVERHEAD = 40
        -- WoW's server buffer seems to be about 32KB. 8KB should be safe, but seen disconnects on _some_ servers. Using 4KB now.
        ChatThrottleLib.BURST = 6000 -- was 4000
        -- Reduce output CPS to half (and don't burst) if FPS drops below this value
        ChatThrottleLib.MIN_FPS = 10 --was 20
    end
end 

Edit: And if all your toons are in a party - pushing settings and other comms functions are a lot faster, including the quest watcher.

[Jafula]

More Quest Watcher updates. I found a significant bug where everytime you completed a quest, every toon was sending out its complete watch list all over again, which causes a significant amount of addon traffic. I've knocked this one on the head, so the next release of Jamba should have a nice fast quest watcher.

I've also optimised the way Jamba sends messages and commands. Previously in a 5 person team, Jamba would send the same command 5 times to each toon. Now if all your toons are in a party/raid, Jamba will only send the command once. This makes for very quick "Push Settings".