Finding the Performance Issue

[zanthor]

Are you running SP1?

Not yet.

Have you looked at performance counters?

I have, but I'm not sure exactly what to look for.

Are you capping your frames when boxing? When you are not?

With 5 instances of wow running the focus'd window gets 25-30fps even when I raise the maxfps over that. When running ONE instance of wow in the same place with the same settings I get 25-40fps.

I don't quite understand your last statement, if you are within 15-10 frames of the way it ran in XP, then I'm not sure what your problem is? Have you duplicated all of your friends game settings on a 1:1 basis, and I mean all of them, on every tab? How is the performance in a maximized window when you launch it manually? Specifically windowed mode maximized.

It runs like shit in XP, it runs like shit in Vista, it's playable but not running the way this system should be able to.

Compairing to my friends setup... I have loaded wow from a clean install freshly patched to 2.4 (925mb download). All graphics settings at minimum and I get SIGNIFICANTLY worse performance than my friends pc does.

What about virus/worm/rootkit/malware/spyware?

Clean install of windows XP, clean install of windows Vista, I'm certain there isn't a problem with anything of that nature.

What about driver revisions? Firmware? BIOS updates?

Downloaded current drivers on all hardware, I haven't updated firmware or bios, I'll check for avaialbiltiy because that is something that I missed.

You do know there is a major difference in the way the memory controllers work between the 8800gt and 8800gtx?

I don't know much about the different variants of video cards, I know 8800's smoke 8600's, and 8000's smoke 7000's, it's REALLY hard to find any english language documentation (and I don't mean technical bullshit from the manufacturer, I mean english like "Hey bubba, this cards fastest, followed by this one, then this one"). But I was under the impression that the 8800GT was FAST.