5 in 1 - How to improve frame rates

[Grizzly]

I am trying to run 5 clients all on one Core 2 Duo T7300 laptop with 4GB RAM. Frame Though the performance montior reports CPU and Memory usage to be only 80-90%, frame rates on all clients are all at 10fps. Short of setting up a new rig, is there any way to push up the frame rates? All clients are already using the lowest 800X600 resolution with all detail settings at the lowest. All clients are running from a single wow directory.

[wowphreak]

are yeh running vista?

[Grizzly]

Yea. 32 bit Vista Home Premium. Even with only a single client, my fps rarely exceed 40fps :wacko:

[Talos]

seeing this is a laptop your talking about im more concerned about the videocard...

there is enough ram and good CPU, so there is no bottleneck there... but the video, is it integrated/shared videoram ? or a seperate card ?
and if so what brand and how much meg of Ram

[Grizzly]

Video is a Geforce 8400< with 128MB dedicated graphic memory. I am using Keyclone (great s/w btw 8) ) with maximizer enabled. One main windown on the left and 4 small windows stacked on the right. Is video a factor? I thought even with 5 windows, the video card is still drawing over a the same screen size of 1280 X 800? Will performance improve if I disable maximizer and minimized all alts windows?

[Sarduci]

No, but be sure to set the foreground and background fps in Keyclone to limit what resources your smaller windows use.

[Sina]

My best suggestion, and im not joking:


Sell the laptop, and get a new 9000 series video card from nvid or a 4000 from ati.

for 4-5 client wow setup on 1 pc here is what i would suggest ( best bang for your buck )

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16 GHz Processor (1333MHz FSB) (6MB Cache)
ASUS P5N-E SLI nForce 650i SLI Motherboard
2GB 800MHz DDR2 Non-ECC Low-Latency CL4 (4-4-4-12) DIMM (Kit of 2)
GeForce 9600GT ( if you have a little extra cash iw ould go straight for the newg20 arch on the 260 GTX )

Asus DRW-2014LIT

CoolerMaster Real Power Pro RS-650-ACAA-A1


250 GB - internal - 3.5" - SATA-300 - 7200 rpm - buffer: 16 MB X2

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic

System shouldn't run over $1000 generally that build is around 890$




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[Syro]

Two things

1) 32bit OS won't recognize anything more than ~3.2gb of memory.
2) You should have different WoW directories for each instance of WoW. If you play from the same directory, you'll see stuttering in the game and lower FPS because each instance is trying to read/write to the same files.

[BobGnarly]

Two things

1) 32bit OS won't recognize anything more than ~3.2gb of memory.

Maybe you're trying to simplify, but this isn't strictly correct. 32bit OS will recongnize 4G, but PC based OSes must allocate some of the RAM for memory-mapped IO, which steals out of the 4G. Most of the time, you will notice between 3-3.5 G of free RAM, but it can go much lower (eg: two SLI 8800gtx).

2) You should have different WoW directories for each instance of WoW. If you play from the same directory, you'll see stuttering in the game and lower FPS because each instance is trying to read/write to the same files.

Wrong. Absolutely backward, in fact. For maximum performance, you want fewer directories.

There can be no contention on writing to files. If there was, it just wouldn't work period. "Contention" on reads is actually a good thing because it can cache the data.

OP: you need to read the wiki, then "software" forums, and maybe do some searches. There is a ton of info about how to get maximum performance for various scenarios. good luck.

[Syro]

2) You should have different WoW directories for each instance of WoW. If you play from the same directory, you'll see stuttering in the game and lower FPS because each instance is trying to read/write to the same files.

Wrong. Absolutely backward, in fact. For maximum performance, you want fewer directories.

There can be no contention on writing to files. If there was, it just wouldn't work period. "Contention" on reads is actually a good thing because it can cache the data.

OP: you need to read the wiki, then "software" forums, and maybe do some searches. There is a ton of info about how to get maximum performance for various scenarios. good luck.

I don't understand then how running the same executable five times creates stuttering and lag problems, yet creating 5 different directories and running from each removes the stuttering/lag and gives me a tiny FPS boost? Is it my harddrive? I have yet to look into symbolically linked files yet.