Running DB in VM causing slowdown inside of VM

[warbux]

I am testing DB inside of a VM and its working good the only problem is my chr seems to slow down from time to time. Is this normal? I have assigned it 9GB of RAM. I hope someone can help. I would like to eventually run 10 or 15 bots on this machine.

 

[fr3357]

9 Gigs is overkill for 1 bot, and with that information ALONE no one could answer your question, other than saying 9 gigs is overkill.

 

[warbux]

Okay what do you need? Server info (dual quad core xeon server w/ hyperthreading) 96GB of RAM 10GB ISCSI SAN running windows 7 as the host OS and VMWare workstation 8 as the VM engine. I have windows 7 installed on the guest OS a pretty streamlined copy. I disabled page files and went and disabled unneeded services ect. I dont think VMWare Workstation will benefit from changing the processor/core inputs so I left it at 1.

 

[a10xr]

Hey warbux, this is actually a known issue - from what I've read it has to do with how DB handles processing information for each object/monster in the game (aka poor coding).

It looks like it's a single-threaded function so when 5 monsters pop up on your screen, it freezes D3 until it processes everything for those monsters, hence the performance hiccups.

This is what I did, and it enabled me to get 4 bots running relatively smoothly (enough to get 650k gph w/ Sarkoth before the game limits):
- Lowest possible graphics settings
- Set "Max Foreground FPS" 60 and MAKE SURE the D3 window is focused in your VM.

My bot still has only slight hiccups every 5-10 seconds, but they didn't seem to have much impact on performance. Hope this helps.