Can't 5box with Cata :(

[nonzok]

Hello

I've been away from wow since Wrath and now got back to 5boxing with Cata, and turns out I cannot anymore. Well, it lags toooo much. Wayy too much.

I could barely run 5 clients on LOW (res low, all settings low, only one client had sound) in Wrath, and even Stormwind was a hell to run to (because of the client-side lag).

So has something changed? I cannot do it anymore with this PC. I need to upgrade....

[Sajuuk]

Before we can judge your PC we need to know WHAT IT IS.

[nonzok]

you don't need to judge my PC, that was the point

all I am asking if Cataclysm makes it harder to run five clients than what Wrath did

or some other patch in between

I've heard about some water thing being improved, like better water en such

[ZooljinX]

giving us your comp specs can give us info that might help you..

on the topic, yes they polished it a bit but not that much, try setting all low(as you have) and set slave FPS to max 10 and run lower res could help aswell..if you are using 2 screens try only using one of them..
dunno how much RAM you have but adding more if you have a low ammount would probably help aswell

[nonzok]

thanks.

I have 4 gb of ram. I ran four toons on my other display. so that has an effect, huh? I noticed Primary 1 and Primary 2 settings on the WoW's config screen. maybe if I set all four toons to Primary 2, it'll know where thay are.

I checked that WoW took about 480 mb of memeryo per client, without addons, wherein previously I remember them taking WITH addons about 370. everything as low as they can be, of course. but then the text becomes nearly unreadable, and the experience is not what it used to be.

[HPAVC]

Cata has a lot of different performance settings, i wouldn't expect you to just patch wotlk and have it perform the same. Though once diagnosed it should run better than in wotlk on nice hardware.

My guess would be affinity issues, which should be pretty obvious to see with perfmon or similar.

But 4gb of ram? I would fix that after you diagnose this issue.

[RSM72]

thanks.

I have 4 gb of ram. I ran four toons on my other display. so that has an effect, huh? I noticed Primary 1 and Primary 2 settings on the WoW's config screen. maybe if I set all four toons to Primary 2, it'll know where thay are.

I checked that WoW took about 480 mb of memeryo per client, without addons, wherein previously I remember them taking WITH addons about 370. everything as low as they can be, of course. but then the text becomes nearly unreadable, and the experience is not what it used to be.

4GB of RAM is not even close to sufficient. Those 480 MB per client you see is already limited by the shortage of memory. I run 5 clients on a box with 12GB of RAM and memory usage per client is above 650 MB and can get close to 1GB in crowded areas. Add 1-2 GB for your operating system and you end up with a bare minimum of 8 GB.

[EaTCarbS]

4GB of RAM is not even close to sufficient. Those 480 MB per client you see is already limited by the shortage of memory. I run 5 clients on a box with 12GB of RAM and memory usage per client is above 650 MB and can get close to 1GB in crowded areas. Add 1-2 GB for your operating system and you end up with a bare minimum of 8 GB.

I would disagree on 8g ram being a minimum. I have run up to 9 windows with 6g (only lagging in major population centers). 6 is probably a more reasonable number.

[moog]

4GB of RAM is not even close to sufficient.

My experience backs that up.

Started off with 6GB RAM on my i7-920 and that wasn't enough to run a 5th client.
4 was ok, the 5th maxed the RAM and started swapping and all 5 clients as good as died.

Upped to 12GB RAM and with 5 clients it floats around 7-8GB used.

[Tin]

Yes - requirements did go up with Cata, and even more after the fireland patch hit the server.

3 tings that happend for me:

1. Every loadet game now use around 700-800Mb of ram
2. Cpu that used around 80% load (wolk) - was now hitting the roof 98-100% (Fireland patch)
3. Gpu (GeForce GT 220) was running on max load - big drop in framerate - where I use to have 30+ FPS on main
was some time dropping to under 20 FPS

I did try everyting to get it running, low setting, removing addon, DirectX etc. But for for me nothing seem to change,
I could hear the computer start to work over time when the 5th account was getting loadet.

When running 4 account only, I was getting close to Wolk feeling of boxing. (Use ISboxer 5 account 1 computer)

A new computer (Intel® Core™ i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 16GB ram, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580) was the was the way i did fix it. Is now running with 60+ FPS on main