Hardware question!

[chazz]

My guess is, we've got a replay of affinity here. I think probably Nagle isn't really turned off even though you took steps to turn it off. It just sounds too exactly like Nagle -- the sudden drastic drop to the 150ish range.

One thing that I've noticed a couple of times before and just remembered (because before I wasn't looking for it, but I now remember that it was something I reacted briefly on) is that when I log in, it first says I have 1k fps and 0ms becuase it takes a short while for the AddOn to adjust I imagine, but then it goes to 61ms and stays there for a short amount of time and then shazam! we're up to 150-200, sometimes more.
So it's literally like it's something that kicks in a short while after I log in.

So how are your windows arranged now? One is full screen and the others...?

The others are just minimized, I never switch over to them basically, and if I do I alt+tab to do it since the PiP thing doesn't work when one screen is in fullscreen (sadly, that would have been truly awesome, but can't see how that could be achieved).
This is getting creepy though, before I read your post just now I fired all of my instances up (all on highest graphics) logged on and set maxfps to 60 and voilá it stayed there fairly well, I ran into crossroads and it dropped down to 57 while rendering the NPCs (empty of players atm cause it's 2am here).
I decided to open my main back up again before writing that here and hitting "Submit" and when I did it now bounces between 30-53.
This is starting to become one of those things where I try my damnest to solve it and it ends up with me bald and the biggest dent on my forehead from banging it into the wall repeadetly, all the while I drag people down with me. :wacko:


EDIT: You know what, as far as FPS issue goes I'm just going to play for a few days or so now and do some monitoring and see how it pans out.
The recent spike just now might have been because of automatic defragmation or similiar that I just googled on and read happens in Vista at about 2am, which was almost the time (2:26 now) when it occured.
As for the ping issue I have no idea, I'll do some research and see if I can come up with something, if anyone else has any suggestions please don't hesitate to post!

And thanks once again Freddie for helping me, really appreciate it!

[chazz]

Small update!
Looks like you were right, once again, Freddie!
It was a nagle issue and a recurring 'CPU situation', appearantly you can't take manual steps to fix this in the registry, the change has no effect.
I found a patch to download and install though and also created a .reg file for TcpNoDelay thing, don't know if that really works then either but did it anyway.
Result? The following;

[Freddie]

Looks like you were right, once again, Freddie!

Holy smokes, I got lucky twice in one thread!

It was a nagle issue and a recurring 'CPU situation', appearantly you can't take manual steps to fix this in the registry, the change has no effect.
I found a patch to download and install though and also created a .reg file for TcpNoDelay thing, don't know if that really works then either but did it anyway.

Could you say where you got the patch? I'd like to know so I can tell other people.

Result? The following;

Woot. That's awesome. I'm glad this long thread worked out so well.

I was wondering about the registry advice in those links because I thought probably WoW was requesting Nagle in its client, and I thought it would be odd if Windows allows a system-wide registry setting to override an applications choice, especially since that part of the Windows API (net communications stuff) is incredibly technical and it's used by specialists who write incredibly sophisticated server software and I couldn't imagine that Microsoft would take away control over Nagle from them and put it in the registry. And based on what you've observed, I guess they didn't.

[chazz]

Could you say where you got the patch? I'd like to know so I can tell other people.

Absolutely!

http://thehotfixshare.net/board/inde...showtopic=3265

And the registry file created;

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ] 
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Parameters] 
"TCPNoDelay"=dword:00000001 
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Parameters\OCMsetup] 
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Parameters\Security] 
"SecureDSCommunication"=dword:00000000 
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Parameters\setup] 
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSMQ\Setup] 

Now I "just" need to try and solve my last problem and I'm golden, but I'll probably make a more appropriate thread for it!