How to Tweek WoW ?

[Jalockin]

Hey Guys

I noticed the my process of world of Warcraft is using 2-3 times as much processing power as D3 does, I was under the assumption that WoW required far less power than D3 to run - in another thread someone stated that you should be able to run 2-3 WoW on the power of 1 D3 instance.

I believe that WoW can be tweaked, I just don't know how other than the in-game settings which does jack shit to consumption.

Any one out there in the free world who can help me ?

System:
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
AMD Phenom II x4 3.6ghz
16GB Kingston HyperX 1600 Ram
WD 7200RPM Harddrive (yes i don't have SSD yet )
XFX AMD Radeon HD7950 3GB

Thanks in advance

J.

 

[paveley]

Are you running Wow in 64bit or 32bit mode?

 

[Azzieh]

did you cap the fps to 15 ingame ?

 

[Jalockin]

Wow is running 32bit as HB doesn't work in 64bit.

Azzieh how do i do that ?

 

[chinajade]

Wow is running 32bit as HB doesn't work in 64bit.

Azzieh how do i do that ?

Hi, Jalockin,

There are a ton of settings used in WoW/WTF/Config.wtf that are not exposed to the user. Here is a list of those that are known. Some of the settings are exposed through the WoW GUI, and some not.

Of particular interest to you would be the MaxFPS and maxFPSBk settings.

cheers,
chinajade

 

[Jalockin]

Hi, Jalockin,

There are a ton of settings used in WoW/WTF/Config.wtf that are not exposed to the user. Here is a list of those that are known. Some of the settings are exposed through the WoW GUI, and some not.

Of particular interest to you would be the MaxFPS and maxFPSBk settings.

cheers,
chinajade

Thanks alot, that took out almost all of the power now they are running @ 2-3% instead of 30'ish

 

[Azzieh]

now if only honorbuddy would be as efficient as wow ...

 

[Kungen]

now if only honorbuddy would be as efficient as wow ...

Second that honorbuddy goes nuts sometimes i found a nice program called "processtamer" which basically lets you set your cpu level you desire and it will lower and raise the priority of the process defined.

also i use cleanmem to keep wow ram usage down to about 40k per instance very hand and noticable.