I'm currently running 10 Wow/HB clients on my gig. I want to raise it to 20, however im not totally sure if its gonna be smooth. I've seen another thread about some tips on this but cannot find it now. I'm firing up all the clients via ARelog, 480x384 windows resolution. Making windows smaller doesnt really help. Any way to lower Client resolution, as it is 800x600 by now. Max background FPS is set to 36 atm, is it ok to lower it below 30? How can i lower Memory / CPU usage of WoW clients? Do you think its possible to achieve 70%-80% CPU load with 20 clients on this PC? My current resource usage: (These Values Include MSN/Skype and Arelog present.) CPU Load: Fluctuates around 50% - 60%, seems equally balanced on all cores/threads. Memory Usage: Around 8.77GB - 8.85GB Memory Usage per WoW Client: 410MB -520MB Memory Usage per HB Client: 105MB - 200MB Average HB Client Memory Usage: 153MB Average WoW Memory Usage: 454MB PC Spec: i7 860 - Stock 16GB 1600 MHz Kingston Memory (4x4) 1GB Sapphire Ati HD5850 GPU Gigabyte P55UD3 MoBo 3x 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black (Raid5) Windows 7 Ultimate x64
All I can say is wow. i7 950@2.66 0.97v 6gb 1600mhz OCZ @2200mhz 1gb Sapphire 6870 1100/1450@1286mah Had a UD3 board that died. Now have an Asus Sabertooth. OCZ SSD for boot and 1x1tb WD black. Win7x64 I run 8 copies of wow @800x600 (I multibox) Background FPS is 60 Foreground is 55 Each wow runs around 390-420mb of ram... CPU usage doesnt often go higher than 70%. And that is with it UNDERCLOCKED and UNDERVOLTED. I don't find wow to be terribly CPU hungry but depending on heat/workload it can strain your GPU quite a bit IMO. Are your temps getting high at all?
Did you read my post or asumed im having issues with high CPU load? No , I'm not having high temp, on none of the components, well ram sticks seems like getting a bit high to me, but thats no concern.
I'm firing up all the clients via ARelog, 480x384 windows resolution. Making windows smaller doesnt really help. Any way to lower Client resolution, as it is 800x600 by now. Max background FPS is set to 36 atm, is it ok to lower it below 30? How can i lower Memory / CPU usage of WoW clients? Do you think its possible to achieve 70%-80% CPU load with 20 clients on this PC? A. Pretty sure there's a console command in World of Warcraft\wtf\config.wtf you can do, errm... "SET gxResolution "720x576"", although I'm not sure if it's really the rendering resolution or just the pane resolution. B. Yes, could probably go to about 10 really. Pretty sure it only requires 1 frame per user input (such as casting a spell/moving location/training skill/mining/etc) and not 1 per memory read (such as working out the co-ords of a ore/Zone ID/Etc...) and I doubt you need to move/cast a spell/train a skill 10 times per second. C. Low settings, low resolution, I believe there's a few FPS config/mods on curse/forums around the internet. D. I'm running the stock I7 980, I start to use about 60% on ultra when running 7-10 clients, my graphics card on the other hand (GTX590) starts to die with that many clients on ultra open. If I turn them down to low however, I don't see ANY FPS drop in games such as CS:S/Portal/Portal 2 (I don't mean with my eyes, I mean with a ingame FPS monitor).
My main concern is Memory usage as it seems CPU usage drops significantly with lower FPS restriction. Gonna try @25FPS and report CPU usage. I doubt if the memory usage can be lowered, but not sure still.
1. Remove any function from wow (combat text, HP tabs, all) 2. All graphic to min, not only from wow client, please read wow programming or wow graphical api to do so. 3. Run wow on 20 fps. Can run 4 wow's on Sempron 140 with 2 GB RAM and a 64bit crappy video. Good luck!
I've found the link to thread I mentioned. http://www.thebuddyforum.com/gatherbuddy-forum-gb1-standalone/5988-reduce-ram-used-per-wow-instance.html maxfps: 20 ; Significant drop at CPU usage, 20% - 30% usage atm. However Ram usage did not dropped that much, 8.55GB atm. gonna try with graphics settings and report later.
I'm running my clients at 15fps, 10 clients on pretty much same confuguration, just a bit better video card and SSD drive, and all in all, its around 50% CPU load.
limiting FPS decreses CPU usage for good. But I could not decrease memory usage with that. I found this [Tool] Low memory usage (20-50MB) per wow.exe Gonna try and report results. I really need a way to decrease memory usage now, if I could make it about 350-400MB its enough for me.
