City Lag

[jrdn]

i just started 3 boxing on my pc.. everything was fine until i went to orgrimmar and ouch. it took me probably 20 minutes to get from the entrance to rfc.

ive done a few things to fix this..

i copied my wow installation to 3 separate disks
on the followers i did three things:
i lowered the resolution to 800x600
i set the graphics to all the lowest settings
i set maxfps to 30 and maxfpsbk to 5

i now have no lag in orgrimmar or shattrath

amd x64 4200+
2gb ram
geforce 8600

[wougoose]

> cd c:\Program Files (x86)\wow2[/font]
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.

This can be done in XP as well by using NTFS juntions. I wrote up a guide: Symbolic linking using Winbolic

[wallshot]

zoikes...i tried this without the tool and got winders and wow all pissed. Killer info! This also cut my 5x log in/load time by at least half. My hard drive is loving the free time it has now too

[emps]

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.

even better (like keyclone said), small drives on raid 0 config. the more drives the better performance... i have 3x 80GB striped (data/cache are linked) no noticeable or unbearable lag running 5 wow instances on two wide monitors.

Edit: 22" @ 16x10res , 24" @ (4-way) 16x10res w/ window size of 9x6 -----maxbkfps=20 and vertsync enabled on all clients

[bugilt]

addons become a major issue when running x5. I uninstalled the addons that I didn't need on my other clients.

[Jamien]

woot! Thanks for this guys.

Used the mklink for my 4 slaves, linked them to a separate HDD which runs my main and I can now run through org without stopping every 3 seconds!
Last night I used it to good effect, making Chain Heal patterns in org ... up until the point where i had about 30 people standing there watching and I was gettin 5 FPS on all chars.

[Skuggomann]

I chekked my stats, in shatartat wen im flying around on epic flyers its aroudn 40-50% CPU usage and 55% ram usage

[Fizzler]

Could you mklink your clones addon folders to the main? would save me a little time in updating addons.

[Ken]

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.

I do the same thing (but I limit it through Keyclone) and that is indeed a good solution for the CPU problem.