City Lag

[Notes]

That sounds so refreshing, it must work! Last night I didn't have time to copy the WoW folders, and now I'm glad for it. This solution makes perfect sense.. Hope it'll work for me as wel(Read: Hope I get it to work ... <---- pc n00b)

[Kilh]

I had the same problem when I started, 4 different WOW installs on the same hard drive.

I changed to running all clients from the same WOW install and the problem went away, with easier patching/addon updating to boot =)

[theory]

Indeed, symlinking those directories will benefit you greatly, should you suffer from loadlag in cities, boats and zeppelins.

I went from "move 10 feet, stop, wait" to being able to just run whenever - even in Shattrath.

[Notes]

Edit: nvmd, got it, post can be deleted

[bundeswuhr]

I had this problem too, cities were bad and shatrath during the day was an absolute nightmare.

However (!) there is a way to really help this if you meet the following criteria.
1) Running Windows Vista
2) Your problem stems from the fact that you have 5 seperate copies of the Warcraft directory

What you need to do is link all the Data and Cache directories in your clone Wow folders to the main one.

ex:
c:\Program Files (x86)\wow2\Data -> c:\Program Files (x86)\wow1\Data
c:\Program Files (x86)\wow2\Cache -> c:\Program Files (x86)\wow1\Cache

You do this with the 'mklink' tool.

1) Remove the Data and Cache directories in each clone wow folder (or rename them)
2) Open up the Command Prompt
3) Change directory to the clone wow
> cd c:\Program Files (x86)\wow2
4) Make the link
> mklink /D Data c:\Program Files (x86)\wow1\Data
> mklink /D Cache c:\Program Files (x86)\wow1\Cache
5) Repeat for each other clone directory

Doing this reduced my lag in shatrath from horrible to zero.

edit: The main reason I did this was when I got my epic flyers anytime I would fly over _anything_ I had a high chance of losing one, it doesn't happen anymore

:!: Concerns:
I haven't upgraded WoW yet with a patch, and because the files are split like this there may be issues. This is why I haven't deleted the data directories yet, so I can restore them if I have to.

Can some explain that, having problems following it.
I get 'The syntax of the comand is incorrect' error at step 4
Thanks

[Glord]

Well, the idea is that you either get more hardrives, so you're no longer IO capped.
Or you could symlink your data folders, so the HD cache will reduce the actual amount of reading from the disks.

Personally, I have 3 disks for 5 clients and it still gets laggy if there are a lot of people running around in the cities. It's still playable, but laggy.

[Otlecs]

get 'The syntax of the comand is incorrect' error at step 4

Try putting double-quotes around anything with a space (like "c:\Program Files (x86)\wow1\Data").

[bundeswuhr]

get 'The syntax of the comand is incorrect' error at step 4

Try putting double-quotes around anything with a space (like "c:\Program Files (x86)\wow1\Data").

Thanks, worked a treat :P

[Pocalypse]

Has anyone managed to do this in Win XP? Does it yield any benefits?

Googling gave a bunch of results and ways to do it, but I was wondering if someone had it working before I got into it.

Edit: NVM, found some other good threads on this forum about it.

[TheBigBB]

I found that a simple "/console maxfps 30" solved my problem.

All 5 windows were trying to run at 60 FPS. At 30 they don't have any issue.