Easy performance boost

[kaiverrettu]

Resize all of your WoW windows
Set max fps to 1
Resize desktop to 800x600(yeah this hurts)
Set graphical settings to minimum

Aside from that, what other easy ways are there to quickly increase one computers WoW performance?

[Oatboat]

what are computer specs and how many copies are you running?

[kaiverrettu]

what are computer specs and how many copies are you running?

AMD Athlon x2 3800
2gb ram
ATI radeon hd 4770

But I have i7 920 motherboard and 900~~gb card waiting for case, rams and hard drive, just curious iif there are any other methods to increase performance boost as I plan on boxing 8-10 toons on that i7, and have heard previously it's not possible since WoW sux at multi-threading

Regardless by resizing my windows to 800x600 I was suddenly able to box one more toon for a total count of 4 on this one(as well as browse the internet on 1 tab nevermind some bigger news sites) so maybe it'll be possible to box at least 7-6 toons on the i7

[MiRai]

Set max fps to 1

Anything below 10FPS can cause problems with following.

I plan on boxing 8-10 toons on that i7, and have heard previously it's not possible since WoW sux at multi-threading

Where did you hear that? While WoW wasn't originally designed to take advantage of multiple cores I am able
to spread out the CPU load equally across all of my cores (both logical and virtual) just fine.

And from your original post (prior to the edit) the 980X and 990X aren't coming down in price. Extreme Edition
CPUs don't come down in price. You're looking to run 8-10 characters and this can be done with your i7 920
granted you have a good enough video card. Also, a current 2600/2700 CPU for one third of the price of a
980X/990X can do this even easier.

Regardless by resizing my windows to 800x600 I was suddenly able to box one more toon for a total count of 4 on this one(as well as browse the internet on 1 tab nevermind some bigger news sites) so maybe it'll be possible to box at least 7-6 toons on the i7

Other people have been using those 1366 i7 processors to 10 box for over a year now if not longer. I know
Kicksome (a member of this forum) has been 10 boxing just fine on his first gen i7 920 for quite some time.

[kaiverrettu]

Where did you hear that?

From a thread I made on MMO champ

granted you have a good enough video card. Also, a current 2600/2700 CPU for one third of the price of a
980X/990X can do this even easier.

Yeah sadly I had already bought a i7 920(used) when I heard this, so it was still cheaper to buy a new motherboard for 160€ than to pay 180€+60€ for a new i5-2400&motherboard

How does graphics card affect the performance though? Isn't it more about CPU and RAM than graphics?

Other people have been using those 1366 i7 processors to 10 box for over a year now if not longer. I know
Kicksome (a member of this forum) has been 10 boxing just fine on his first gen i7 920 for quite some time.

I'll need to search Kicksomes posts for more information then, thx

[MiRai]

How does graphics card affect the performance though? Isn't it more about CPU and RAM than graphics?

If you don't have enough video RAM to hold all of the textures or you don't have a strong enough GPU to
handle what the game is demanding then you're going to get low FPS regardless of how fast your CPU is.

As is with any game, you should at least have a mediocre CPU and GPU if you want to play games at a decent
level of performance. This is especially true for us who multibox and put more load on both the CPU and GPU.

[EaTCarbS]

I have run 10 toons on an i7 930 and dual gts 250 cards. The cards were my bottleneck. My processor laughed at 10 wows. I only lagged in orgrimmar anyway.

[Jafula]

If you use addons that communicate over the addon channel and use ChatThrottleLib (which most addons should use), you will find that the addon messages between wow clients are further throttled when the fps is below 15. In order to get "full speed" addon communication I recommend a minimum FPS of 15 (or is it 16?).

Source: the source code for ChatThrottleLib.

http://www.wowwiki.com/ChatThrottleLib

[Khatovar]

If you use addons that communicate over the addon channel and use ChatThrottleLib (which most addons should use), you will find that the addon messages between wow clients are further throttled when the fps is below 15. In order to get "full speed" addon communication I recommend a minimum FPS of 15 (or is it 16?).

Source: the source code for ChatThrottleLib.

http://www.wowwiki.com/ChatThrottleLib

ChatThrottleLib causes throttling to kick in at 20FPS, so your toons would need to be an average of 21 FPS to prevent throttling. Or you'd have to change those lines to a rate lower than what your average slave FPS is.

Search "ChatThrottleLib.MIN_FPS" (5 hits in 5 files)
  G:\WoW\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\tomQuest2\libs\AceComm-3.0\ChatThrottleLib.lua (1 hits)
	Line 63: ChatThrottleLib.MIN_FPS = 20				-- Reduce output CPS to half (and don't burst) if FPS drops below this value
  G:\WoW\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\SilverDragon\lib\ChatThrottleLib\ChatThrottleLib.lua (1 hits)
	Line 63: ChatThrottleLib.MIN_FPS = 20				-- Reduce output CPS to half (and don't burst) if FPS drops below this value
  G:\WoW\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\Auc-Advanced\Modules\Auc-Util-AskPrice\ChatThrottleLib\ChatThrottleLib.lua (1 hits)
	Line 45: ChatThrottleLib.MIN_FPS = 20				-- Reduce output CPS to half (and don't burst) if FPS drops below this value
  G:\WoW\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\Jamba\Libs\AceComm-3.0\ChatThrottleLib.lua (1 hits)
	Line 63: ChatThrottleLib.MIN_FPS = 20				-- Reduce output CPS to half (and don't burst) if FPS drops below this value
  G:\WoW\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\PitBull4_VisualHeal\libs\LibHealComm-4.0\ChatThrottleLib.lua (1 hits)
	Line 63: ChatThrottleLib.MIN_FPS = 20				-- Reduce output CPS to half (and don't burst) if FPS drops below this value

[Jafula]

ChatThrottleLib causes throttling to kick in at 20FPS, so your toons would need to be an average of 21 FPS to prevent throttling. Or you'd have to change those lines to a rate lower than what your average slave FPS is.

FYI: Hmmm, actually, if you have the boost communication option on in Jamba (it's on by default), Jamba overrides ChatThrottleLib minimum FPS to be 10 (as well as some other settings).

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 --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 --4000
        -- Reduce output CPS to half (and don't burst) if FPS drops below this value
        ChatThrottleLib.MIN_FPS = 10 --20
    end
end