Terrible Performance with new PC and Vista 64

[Gallo]

I use Vista 64. You definitely need to set the processor affinity so that different WoW's run on different cores of your processor. Also, I suggest running all of your WoWs from a single folder, rather than 5 separate WoW folders. Unless of course you have 5 hard drives.

The next reply to this said he found it.. I should be recieving my new vista 64 machine today sometime and was curious how do you set wow to run on different cores? As for running wow from a single folder doesn't that prevent you from using the WTF properly in that 1 will load all your mods and stuff and the others won't? you would have to continually set up macros over and over. for somereason when i 3 box now using 1 folder it never saves my macros i have to keep redoing them. but all different folders i never get that issue of having to reset macros..

I use Keyclone's settings to set it up on different cores, though there are ways to manually do it (I just haven't looked into it alot). Also, no it won't screw up your mods. Yes, theyre all stored in the same folder, but the preferences for the mods are held in each individual Account folder inside the WTF folder. Macros are the same way, you won't have to change them every time.

[Fear The Wrath]

I use Vista 64. You definitely need to set the processor affinity so that different WoW's run on different cores of your processor. Also, I suggest running all of your WoWs from a single folder, rather than 5 separate WoW folders. Unless of course you have 5 hard drives.

The next reply to this said he found it.. I should be recieving my new vista 64 machine today sometime and was curious how do you set wow to run on different cores? As for running wow from a single folder doesn't that prevent you from using the WTF properly in that 1 will load all your mods and stuff and the others won't? you would have to continually set up macros over and over. for somereason when i 3 box now using 1 folder it never saves my macros i have to keep redoing them. but all different folders i never get that issue of having to reset macros..

I use Keyclone's settings to set it up on different cores, though there are ways to manually do it (I just haven't looked into it alot). Also, no it won't screw up your mods. Yes, theyre all stored in the same folder, but the preferences for the mods are held in each individual Account folder inside the WTF folder. Macros are the same way, you won't have to change them every time.

as far as cores go.. i have a quad core and i 5box.. so should i put my main on one core and put each of the other four all on the remaining three cores? or should i put 3 accounts on there own core and just put two on one core?

example:
core1:main
core2:subaccount1, subaccount2, subaccount3, subaccount4
core3:subaccount1, subaccount2, subaccount3, subaccount4
core4:subaccount1, subaccount2, subaccount3, subaccount4

OR

core1:main
core2:subaccount1
core3:subaccount2
core4:subaccount3 & subaccount4

[torytrae]

Ok, setting it up in Vista didnt work i will try it with keyclone, hope it will work better.

Yesterday i got Vista32 and installed on a new partition and ... the same slow speed, was shocked as i thought it was related to 64 bit ... i think i have to go through all the drivers and setting this weekend to find the bottleneck.

Right now i am playing window mode with the 4 toon-windows minimized, works ok so far.

[DrGamut]

I just wanted to post here for anyone feeling discouraged reading this thread with similar hardware or looking to get similar hardware.

I have /exactly/ the same setup as the original poster and it's working beautifully for me.

ASUS P5B Deluxe
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz
4x2GB G.Skill DDR2 800 (8GB memory)
2xSeagate SATA 250GB Harddrives in RAID 0
NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX 768MB
Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

I run my main instance of WoW on maximum settings @ 1280x1024 and the other four instances at default settings windowed into quadrants of a 1280x1024 display. Maxbkgfps set to 15 and maxfps set to 45, my main window never drops below 45 (which is a very seamless frame rate). None of my hardware is overclocked, none of my software is tweaked, I'm sure I could change things around for even better performance if I needed to.

I set the processor affinity in keyclone and symlinked my WoW directory (excluding the WTF folder and the Wow executable) using Vista's mklink.

[Chorizotarian]

FYI, you can also symlink WoW.exe and the other binaries.

[Ozbert]

Now i favored XP because its stable and it works. But i just heard that XP is only supporting dual CPUs, so i would cut my Quadcore too ... is this true?

XP Pro supports a maximum of two physical CPU's, or sockets if you will, regardless of the number of cores.

You could run XP Pro on a pair of Quad core CPU's and it would support all eight cores.

[torytrae]

Thx for the info Ozbert and DrGamut.

Well, embarrassing, but i guess i found the problem: As the pc is brand new i simply "forgot" to install any specific mainboard drivers yet, so its running with the default windows stuff - most likey this is the problem. I will update this evening when i am at home and hope it will work.

[Gallo]

Thx for the info Ozbert and DrGamut.

Well, embarrassing, but i guess i found the problem: As the pc is brand new i simply "forgot" to install any specific mainboard drivers yet, so its running with the default windows stuff - most likey this is the problem. I will update this evening when i am at home and hope it will work.

Thats ok, When I built my last rig, I "forgot" to put the Motherboard spacers onto the case, and my motherboard was touching the case and shorting out, thus not starting up at all. Took me days to figure it out... good thing I didn't fry it.

[DrGamut]

Thx for the info Ozbert and DrGamut.

Well, embarrassing, but i guess i found the problem: As the pc is brand new i simply "forgot" to install any specific mainboard drivers yet, so its running with the default windows stuff - most likey this is the problem. I will update this evening when i am at home and hope it will work.

Thats ok, When I built my last rig, I "forgot" to put the Motherboard spacers onto the case, and my motherboard was touching the case and shorting out, thus not starting up at all. Took me days to figure it out... good thing I didn't fry it.

You're very lucky, you won't do that again.

[Gallo]

I am lucky. Problem was, that my last comp that I built, the motherboard stands were built in to the case, so I didnt actually have to "install" them. This time they were in a little bag and I said to myself "What the hell are these?". Never again.