Need your advice please on performance problems - Thank you

[Deekhay]

Hello everyone,

I recently dinged 70 with my 4 Shaman+Druid and I've been doing quite a lot of PvP.
I have this big problem mainly when running Alterac. Sometimes I get to the middle, enemies are really there and It doesn't display in any of my clients (only long time after). Shattrah is extremely poor in performance too and I mean it's really bad. Elements really take too long to display and I move at 4-5 fps :/. All in all, sometimes I "loose" my alts in the way because it lags.

Overall in Outland I never get this fluid sensation in terms of visual performance and I really expected so much more from this machine ;(

I set up keyclone to display 15-30 on main and 12-15 on alts. Visual settings set to the minimum on the 4 alts and all minimum except terrain distance on main.

My computer:

Dell Dimension XPS 720 Core 2 Quad-Core Processor Q6600 (2.4GHz,1066FSB, 8MB cache)
4096Mo (4x1024) DDR2 667MHz
Hard Drive 500GB Serial ATA non Raid (7200 Rpm)
DUAL 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT card (one linked to each monitor - main on one alts on the other)
Vista 32 bit Home Edition

Really hope that you can give me a hand here and thank you in advance for your time.

Mortah

[Budkin]

i was runing 2 geforce 8800 768 ram cards had major lagg changed to 1 card runs way better.Kinda suks fixed my comp buy removeing a 400$ item lol

[Eteocles]

As seen in other threads, multi cards + Multi monitors = baaaaaad fps news. Try a single card and put monitors on Horizontal Span and see if that helps any

[Havelcek]

Yep...pull one card, plug both monitors into the single card and setup DualView in Vista. You'll see an immediate performance increase.

[Deekhay]

Thank you very much.
Going to try tonight and let you know so it might also help others.

Not being very computer sentient, I was wondering if it wasn't really the fact of only having one disk. When, for example, the first encounter with alliance occurs or when I get to Shat a lot of textures and polygons(?) have to be loaded and the system is accessing 5 times the same disk in 5 different locations (I have 5 separate WoW installs).

That is another thing that was never quite clear to me, the impact in overall performance of having several/one disk and/or several/one WoW directories. If someone is willing to enlighten me I thank you in advance.

Regards,
Mortah

[Eteocles]

Several dirs = extra load queues(someone tracked it in another thread a couple months ago and the access time was MUCH higher than single-install, or multi-install with Symbolic Link enabled on the Data folder(s)

[Deekhay]

Several dirs = extra load queues(someone tracked it in another thread a couple months ago and the access time was MUCH higher than single-install, or multi-install with Symbolic Link enabled on the Data folder(s)

So there's another thing to test
Thank you sooo Much Eteocles!

Mortah

[Deekhay]

I really thank you so much, I still can't believe that removing hardware improves performance inch: It's really too much for my computer n00b head

I still have slight issues but here it's really related to disk access (still occasionally losing an alt on the way due to fps drop/freeze). I don't have a RAID, the disk I mentioned is a single disk.

What is your opinion on one or several disks to run separate copies regarding performance (5 boxing)?

Thanks again,
Mortah

[Eteocles]

If I recall right it runs just as well if not better as a 1 wow per drive thing