8.1 Changes, can no longer maintain 5 Windows

[Rocknard]

I got a clip of my second window closing, it's random on what window closes I imagine if I pinpointed which CPU is running which PID I could find out more

https://youtu.be/khbuN07lKoc

[MiRai]

I would agree as I try DX12 where I physically set it, and it's much worse.

Now that only leaves out, what else could be causing my screens to just Disappear I believe it's due to the CPU but what is not causing my Huge increase in CPU if I have confirmed to not be taking advantage of any of the new graphic changes if I am not running DX12

DX12 should free up CPU resources, but otherwise it eats up more from the GPU VRAM.

I got a clip of my second window closing, it's random on what window closes I imagine if I pinpointed which CPU is running which PID I could find out more

https://youtu.be/khbuN07lKoc

Clearly that's a crash of the game client due to, what looks to be, the hardware being overloaded, and any crash logs are going to be stored in the /Logs/ folder.

Also, those slave screens look pretty smooth - Are you running them at a high framerate? In addition, sound playing from all windows at the same time is going to increase the load too. Lowering your background framerate and disabling background sound are two easy ways to reduce load.


Finally, what people who are experiencing issues can try is:

• nVidia users can try rolling back their driver to 417.01 or just a little prior to that (although a brand new driver just came out today).
• Disabling the new multi-threading improvements with the following command: /console gxMTDisable 1 However, if that doesn't fix anything, then you should probably re-enable those enhancements by re-entering the command and switching the 1 to a 0.

[Rocknard]

I will try disabling the improvements and see, in regards to my slaves no they run at 30 fps in background 60 on my main.

[Wizeowel]

Hi Rocknard. I have a similar issue since 8.1. Before yesterday I could easily run 5 toons. Last night I saw that my main memory is full when I have 5 wow clients running. Each wow.exe takes 3GB and I only have 16GB total, so Windows starts swapping to the temporary pagefile and everything slows to a crawl.

I looked through your screenshots but I didn't see anything about your PC's memory. Did you look at Task Manager while running your 5-box?

[MiRai]

Hi Rocknard. I have a similar issue since 8.1. Before yesterday I could easily run 5 toons. Last night I saw that my main memory is full when I have 5 wow clients running. Each wow.exe takes 3GB and I only have 16GB total, so Windows starts swapping to the temporary pagefile and everything slows to a crawl.

I looked through your screenshots but I didn't see anything about your PC's memory. Did you look at Task Manager while running your 5-box?

I'm pretty sure your issue stems directly from the fact that you upgraded from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160, which is a 300% increase in pixel count and requires a lot more resources to run.

[Kayley]

I got a clip of my second window closing, it's random on what window closes I imagine if I pinpointed which CPU is running which PID I could find out more

https://youtu.be/khbuN07lKoc

So as pointed out by Mirai it's generally overworked hardware that causes this. You can sort of force this issue (as a test) by putting 5-10 clients on one CPU core and spamming dps buttons. Most clients will work fine, some will start lagging, then delayed key-presses leading to an eventual crash if it can't catch up.

Weird eh? Before 8.1 it would just lower your fps and that would be it.