Terrible Performance with new PC and Vista 64

[torytrae]

Hm ... as i said i am thinking about a dual-OS system with Vista64 and another 32Bit OS running on a seperate partition.

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?

If so, i still think that maybe Vista32 is better for me. I suppose the lag-issues are related to 64 Bit driver issues. Anyone running on Vista32?

[Sarduci]

Thx for the answers
The processor affinity? Is it a WoW Setting somewhere or system setting? Usually games (like UT3 - which is running in 1900x1200 max details fast like lightning) use all 4 cores as i can see in the display of my G15 Keyboard.

Well the problem is the multi-windowing i guess. As soon as i run just one window, its relative fast with around 80 fps, for every window i open it drops about 20 fps on the main window - with 20 fps left if all 5 windows are open. Main window 1600x1200 and 4 x 800x600 minimum settings. On the 800ish windows i get 50 fps each so it mostly influences the main window ... btw no difference if i use one monitor or both - and on my old pc, it was running much smoother - so i guess its really a OS or driver-issue and for sure not a hardware issue.

I think i will skip Vista 64 for WoW (as long as its not even supported by Blizzard, duh) and will make a new partition and use a 32 Bit OS instead. Now i like Vista - should i stay safe and put XP there or try Vista 32 Bit?! I hate not to use 8 GB Ram and fall back to like 3-4 in 32 Bit .. .but for WoW i have no choise.

I've 5-boxed in 32 bit Vista, was not happy with system performance in relation to other things outside of WoW, so I actually moved to 64 bit Vista and saw major improvements.

[Sarduci]

I gave up on Vista....

You will be gobsmacked when you find out what is loading and running on your system, even when NO applications are running.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx

Ya ALL THAT listed is in memory, and some running.

Yeah, but you should see all the junk that is running on most people's machines after they use them for awhile, it puts Windows to shame. Personally my home system running 5 copies of WoW + everything else only used 2.3 ~ 2.7GB of RAM out of 8GB on my system. That's 60% free for Firefox to waste 1.9GB of RAM all by itself after being left open all weekend. Everything is relative.

[Team Squishee]

I am getting my new PC delivered tomorrow - it comes with Vista and an optional XP downgrade.

I havent been overly impressed with Vista on my laptop so I am thinking of going with the XP option - apparently I can't run Vista on one HDD and XP on the other , but I will be able to 'reverse ' my downgrade and switch to Vista at a later date so XP for me - I know it works

[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.

[torytrae]

Where do i set the processor affinity?

Edit: Found it, will try that at home thx

[Kaynin]

6800 Geforce.

I think there is your problem really. >.>

Get 8k+ geforce, pref a GTS or better, made to function on directx 10. Since vista is a directx 10 platform.

[Kaynin]

I am getting my new PC delivered tomorrow - it comes with Vista and an optional XP downgrade.

I havent been overly impressed with Vista on my laptop so I am thinking of going with the XP option - apparently I can't run Vista on one HDD and XP on the other , but I will be able to 'reverse ' my downgrade and switch to Vista at a later date so XP for me - I know it works

Vista is awesome, you just need to make sure you have good compatible hardware.

[Chorizotarian]

6800 Geforce.

I think there is your problem really. >.>

Get 8k+ geforce, pref a GTS or better, made to function on directx 10. Since vista is a directx 10 platform.

Vista will just turn off the DX10 goodies in the shell, and WoW doesn't use DX10 anyway.

[Hiarcs]

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..