Serious Frame-rate Issues

[Mosg2]

I 5-box on an I-7 920 with 12 gigs of DDR Corsair ram using two video cards--A GTX9800 and a a GTX 275. All of my drivers are up to date. I have no malware.

Normally I run with the main capped at 60 and the alts capped at 30 and I only get a little bit of slow down in Dalaran, going to around 45 or 40 on the main. I took a month or two break from the game and when I came back I'm having these FPS issues--It will run fine and then all of a sudden everyone goes to ~20 fps. It'll last for sometimes 5 seconds and sometimes for hours, regardless if I log out and/or reset my computer or not.

I disabled all addons and it still does it. My CPU and RAM usage is normal. I'm not overheating the CPU.

I literally have no clue why it's doing this. Suggestions?

[Fat Tire]

I 5-box on an I-7 920 with 12 gigs of DDR Corsair ram using two video cards--A GTX9800 and a a GTX 275. All of my drivers are up to date. I have no malware.

Normally I run with the main capped at 60 and the alts capped at 30 and I only get a little bit of slow down in Dalaran, going to around 45 or 40 on the main. I took a month or two break from the game and when I came back I'm having these FPS issues--It will run fine and then all of a sudden everyone goes to ~20 fps. It'll last for sometimes 5 seconds and sometimes for hours, regardless if I log out and/or reset my computer or not.

I disabled all addons and it still does it. My CPU and RAM usage is normal. I'm not overheating the CPU.

I literally have no clue why it's doing this. Suggestions?

just a suggestion here. My wife was having the same issue on her comp and she just plays solo. We rolled back the latest video driver and everything was peachy.

[Mosg2]

Interesting. I'll give it a try. I've played with a bunch of settings and narrowed it down to something with the video cards I think.

[Mosg2]

That didn't fix anything. Grrr.

It's now at the point where it isn't ever good FPS. It's always sitting at 20.

Edit: I also cleaned out the fan on the processor and all the case fans too. I have no idea where to go from here.

Further Edit: I'm now almost 100% certain it has something to do with running each monitor on a different video card. If I don't do any swaps from one screen to another I'm fine. Hmmm. Interesting.

[Mosg2]

I plugged both monitors into the same video card and the problem is fixed.

Now my only problem is that the GTX 275 that I have only has one HDMI out--The other is the regular blue one. Now I need to go buy a converter I guess. Sigh.

At least the problem is solved. I'm really not sure why this was an all-of-a-sudden thing. Maybe just a combination of different driver sets, updates in ISBoxer, etc. Who knows?

[alcattle]

The only ways I have heard of to use two video cards are Windows 7 or Innerspace. If those are an option, play with those.

[Mosg2]

I have been using Windows 7 for awhile with no hitch.

In any case problem solved: I plugged both into the GTX 275 and it's all better now. Better FPS even