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Horrible frame rate in-game when Honorbuddy is running

RamGuy

RamGuy

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Greetings,


I just got back into World of Warcraft after taking a break for a while right before 6.1 went live. I have used Honorbuddy for years so I'm quite custom and comfortable about how to configure the bot and all it's settings etc.. But this time around I can't seem to get it to work fluidly at all..

I did download the latest version, I have all the *.exe set to run as administrator, I did use the Dependency Wizard just to make sure everything was installed and I have set ALL settings in-game to the very lowest possible and everything. Still as soon as Honorbuddy starts running the game will lag quite a lot, even when the game itself is reporting half-decent FPS it will still lag all over the place and doing the starting quests in Draenor my FPS is jumping from 2-3 FPS to 120 FPS (my limit in the settings) but it's mostly down towards 3-12 FPS most of the time with the same lag everywhere.

First I though it had something to do with framelock settings as I have had some hiccups with that in the past. So I lowered from 100 ticks down to 30 ticks, but still the same horrible performance so I decides to disable framelock completely but I'm still having the same horrible performance.


This is on a system running Intel Xeon E3-1275v2 (equals a Intel Core i7-3770K), 16GB of RAM and a GeForce GTX 770 and running from SSD's. I can't for the life of me figure why the performance is this poor.
 
Addon, HB plugin or CR. Try test it without addons and/or without HB plugins. Then test other CR
 
It's the same without any addons and I'm using Singular with Kick's Questing Profiles so there is no third-party combat routine in play either.
 
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I have tried to fiddle around with all kinds of settings within Honorbuddy, tried to delete plugins and whatnot but I'm still at a loss here. The only thing that seems to give me anything above 30 FPS is disabling framelock all together. But I'm still having lagspikes going all over the place and even on the lowest possible settings in-game my FPS is jumping from 30 FPS to 180 FPS non-stop.


With framelock on, no matter if I choose 15 ticks, 30 ticks or 100 ticks it will keep my FPS below 10 almost all the time.


When I played on this very same computer back on patch 6.0.X I had five WoW instances going all at once, all with framelock on at 100 ticks and all the instances had about 30-40 FPS stable on the lowest settings. If I ran only one instance of WoW and Honorbuddy I could play with framelock @ 100 ticks and high-ultra settings and get a stable 60-70 FPS+.



EDIT:

Just for the sake of it I also tried to disable my security software (BitDefender AntiVirus Plus 2015, Hitman Pro and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium) and it did not make any differnce.
 
use dx9 instead and set wow process on a higher than normal priority
 
Tony said:
use dx9 instead and set wow process on a higher than normal priority
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DirectX9 vs DirectX11 API does not make any difference at all, and setting a higher CPU priority does not seem to make any difference either.
 
Yes, it didn't seem to make any difference at all in terms of performance while using Honorbuddy.


EDIT:

It's especially when Honorbuddy is interacting with NPC's that the game will lag / freeze for several seconds before anything will happen.
 
Had a few of those installed;

- GeForce Experience
- Razer Synapse
- TeamViewer


Those three wore also installed the previous time I was botting without any issues so I can't really understand why those suddenly should cause issues this time around. But to be fair I went ahead and deleted all of them and it didn't make any difference.

I'm not sure how GeForce Experience is supposed to cause huge loss of performance while using Honorbuddy? Unless you have ShadowPlay enabled for some reason. GeForce Experience itself is not interacting with the game client, and certainly not Honorbuddy?

But same thing goes for Razer Synapse and TeamViewer, I'm not entirely sure how those applications is supposed to cause problems? But I decided to remove them and do a reboot of my system just to verify. When it comes to TeamViewer I have always used it to monitor my bots over the years and have never, ever had any issues with it? I do however install the unattended client, and not the full-blown client so that might have something to do with it. But I still have a really hard time understanding how TeamViewer is supposed to cause problems for Honorbuddy?


When it comes to security software the computer is running;

- BitDefender Antivirus Pro/Plus 2015 (with Honorbuddy, WoW and both of it's folders on the excluded list)
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium (with Honorbuddy, WoW and both of it's folders on the excluded list)
- Hitman Pro (with all it's keylogger, anti-exploit etc features completely disabled)


I have also tried to test with all the security software disabled and it didn't make any difference.


I'm starting to suspect that Windows 10 Pro is to blame, which I will be able to verify soon as I will be moving my bots from the current desktop that it's running on over to my server running Windows Server 2012 R2 which equals Windows 8.1 and not Windows 10.
 
Things are going a bit slower than expected so I have yet to make the move from my girlfriends desktop over to my server, but I have finally moved back to Windows 8.1 from Windows 10 on my own desktop due to some inconsistencies with some software and especially NVIDIA GeForce drivers and SLI + G-Sync which wasn't working for me at all under Windows 10 and so far my performance using Honorbuddy can't be compared with the performance under Windows 10.

I'm using the very same installation of Honorbuddy, the very same installation of World of Warcraft (just copied the folders) and compared to Windows 10 and my 3-25 FPS using Honorbuddy with framelock and hiccups / lag all-over-the-place and 5-140 FPS using without framelock (bouncing from sub 25 FPS to above 100 FPS ever few seconds) I'm now seeing a steady 40 FPS+ with 100 ticks framelock with some random lag here and there which I have figured is normal with framelock on and without framelock I don't have any drop in performance at all seeing a steady 120FPS+.

That's with everything on Ultra + 4x MSAA and 100% resolution scale compared to everything on the absolute lowest settings and 50% resolution scale.. So there was clearly something really fishy going on with Windows 10. But that pretty much sums up my experience with Windows 10 so far, the operating system itself feels and looks nice and all and it has great potential but at it's current state there is clearly optimisation that needs to be done on third-party software and drivers until it's ready for prime.
 
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