celrons

[siban]

i am getting loss of framerate when runing 2 sessions of wow on a celron processor any help to fix this

[Lax]

i am getting loss of framerate when runing 2 sessions of wow on a celron processor any help to fix this

Take a peek at the framerate options under World of Warcraft in WinEQ 2 preferences. It sounds like you're not expecting framerate limiting to be enabled, or you are expecting windowed gaming to yield the same framerate as real full screen.

Post your sysinfo.txt so I have a better idea of what is going on. You can get it by right clicking on the window title bar and selecting Generate System Info

[siban]

WinEQ 2 System Information
System:
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Windows Version: Microsoft Windows XP/Service Pack 2/2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519
System Physical RAM: 927/1526MB
Page File: 9016/9567MB
Virtual Memory: 1709/2047MB (Extended: 0MB)
CPU 1: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz @ 2799MHz
CPU Affinity Mask: 1
Video 1: \\.\DISPLAY1/RADEON 9250
Video 2: \\.\DISPLAYV1/NetMeeting driver
Video 3: \\.\DISPLAYV2/RDPDD Chained DD
Monitor 1: \\.\DISPLAY1 (0,0,1280,1024) (1280x1024) PRIMARY
Sound: Ø
DirectX: 4.09.00.0904
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180
WinEQ: 2.13

Loaded Modules:
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Module 0: C:\World of Warcraft\wow.exe
Module 1: D:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
Module 2: D:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
Module 3: D:\WINDOWS\system32\MSVCRT.dll
Module 4: D:\WINDOWS\system32\COMCTL32.dll
Module 5: D:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll
Module 6: D:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
Module 7: D:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll
Module 8: D:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
Module 9: D:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll
Module 10: D:\WINDOWS\system32\SHLWAPI.dll
Module 11: D:\WINDOWS\system32\WSOCK32.dll
Module 12: D:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll
Module 13: D:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2HELP.dll
Module 14: D:\WINDOWS\system32\OPENGL32.dll
Module 15: D:\WINDOWS\system32\GLU32.dll
Module 16: D:\WINDOWS\system32\DDRAW.dll
Module 17: D:\WINDOWS\system32\DCIMAN32.dll
Module 18: D:\WINDOWS\system32\IMM32.dll
Module 19: C:\World of Warcraft\DivxDecoder.dll
Module 20: D:\WINDOWS\system32\WINMM.dll
Module 21: C:\World of Warcraft\fmod.dll
Module 22: D:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll
Module 23: D:\WINDOWS\system32\MSACM32.dll
Module 24: D:\WINDOWS\system32\WININET.dll
Module 25: D:\WINDOWS\system32\CRYPT32.dll
Module 26: D:\WINDOWS\system32\MSASN1.dll
Module 27: D:\WINDOWS\system32\OLEAUT32.dll
Module 28: D:\WINDOWS\system32\LPK.DLL
Module 29: D:\WINDOWS\system32\USP10.dll
Module 30: D:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.2180_x-ww_a84f1ff9\comctl32.dll
Module 31: D:\Program Files\WinEQ2\WinEQ2.dll
Module 32: D:\WINDOWS\system32\PSAPI.DLL
Module 33: D:\WINDOWS\Lavish.dll
Module 34: D:\WINDOWS\system32\iphlpapi.dll
Module 35: D:\Program Files\WinAntiVirus Pro 2006\MailScan.dll
Module 36: D:\WINDOWS\system32\SPORDER.dll
Module 37: D:\WINDOWS\system32\MSVCP71.dll
Module 38: D:\WINDOWS\system32\MSVCR71.dll
Module 39: D:\Program Files\WinAntiVirus 2006\MailScan.dll
Module 40: D:\WINDOWS\system32\mswsock.dll
Module 41: D:\WINDOWS\system32\hnetcfg.dll
Module 42: D:\WINDOWS\system32\rsvpsp.dll
Module 43: D:\WINDOWS\System32\wshtcpip.dll
Module 44: D:\WINDOWS\system32\DNSAPI.dll
Module 45: D:\WINDOWS\System32\winrnr.dll
Module 46: D:\WINDOWS\system32\WLDAP32.dll
Module 47: D:\WINDOWS\system32\rasadhlp.dll
Module 48: D:\Program Files\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-WOW.dll
Module 49: D:\WINDOWS\system32\MSIMG32.dll
Module 50: D:\Program Files\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-D3D9.dll
Module 51: D:\WINDOWS\system32\d3dx9_27.dll
Module 52: D:\Program Files\WinEQ2\WinEQ2-Win32I.dll
Module 53: D:\Program Files\WinEQ2\EQPlayNice.dll
Module 54: D:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI HYDRAVISION\HydraDMH.dll
Module 55: D:\WINDOWS\system32\uxtheme.dll
Module 56: D:\Program Files\WinAntiVirus Pro 2006\winpgi.dll
Module 57: D:\WINDOWS\system32\msctfime.ime
Module 58: D:\WINDOWS\system32\Msctf.dll
Module 59: D:\WINDOWS\system32\NTMARTA.DLL
Module 60: D:\WINDOWS\system32\SAMLIB.dll
Module 61: D:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d9.dll
Module 62: D:\WINDOWS\system32\d3d8thk.dll
Module 63: D:\WINDOWS\system32\VERSION.dll
Module 64: D:\WINDOWS\system32\dsound.dll
Module 65: D:\WINDOWS\system32\WINTRUST.dll
Module 66: D:\WINDOWS\system32\IMAGEHLP.dll
Module 67: D:\WINDOWS\system32\wdmaud.drv
Module 68: D:\WINDOWS\system32\msacm32.drv
Module 69: D:\WINDOWS\system32\midimap.dll
Module 70: D:\WINDOWS\system32\KsUser.dll
Module 71: D:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll
Module 72: D:\WINDOWS\system32\urlmon.dll
Module 73: D:\WINDOWS\system32\RASAPI32.DLL
Module 74: D:\WINDOWS\system32\rasman.dll
Module 75: D:\WINDOWS\system32\NETAPI32.dll
Module 76: D:\WINDOWS\system32\TAPI32.dll
Module 77: D:\WINDOWS\system32\rtutils.dll
Module 78: D:\WINDOWS\system32\msv1_0.dll
Module 79: D:\WINDOWS\system32\sensapi.dll
Module 80: D:\WINDOWS\system32\USERENV.dll
Module 81: D:\PROGRA~1\Yahoo!\MESSEN~1\idle.dll

Direct3D9:
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Driver: RADEON 9250 /ati2dvag.dll/6/14/10/6587
Adapter Display Mode: 1280x1024 D3DFMT_R5G6B5
Game Display Mode: 1280x1024 D3DFMT_UNKNOWN (Windowed)
Current Adapter: 0
Available Texture Memory: 239MB
Win32 Input:
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World of Warcraft:
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Profile 2: radaas
WoW Path: C:\World of Warcraft\
Patch: ON Test Server: OFF Locale: us
Video Adapter: Primary

[Lax]

Module 54: D:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI HYDRAVISION\HydraDMH.dll

You should disable hydravision. It looks like you only have one monitor anyway, but even if you have two, you should use the dual monitor support built into Windows itself. Special apps like these can be nice sometimes, BUT it ends up reducing your 3D performance when trying to use both monitors.

Driver: RADEON 9250 /ati2dvag.dll/6/14/10/6587

The limiting factor of your system seems to be your Radeon 9250 -- not the 2.8GHz Celeron you mentioned The 92xx series of Radeon is Direct3D 8.1 hardware, whereas the 9600 and beyond are Direct3D 9. World of Warcraft is a Direct3D 9 game, so if they are taking advantage of features that are hardware accelerated by Direct3D 9 cards, you are missing out on performance improvements on that alone. The 9250 is perfectly fine to use, dont get me wrong, but it is several generations behind the curve, particularly as we near Direct3D 10 and Windows Vista. You may be able to help your issue a little bit by grabbing the latest Catalyst drivers, from ATI.com.

Adapter Display Mode: 1280x1024 D3DFMT_R5G6B5

Your Windows desktop is in 16-bit color. If World of Warcraft is in 32-bit color, then some color conversion has to take place in windowed mode that doesn't have to take place in full screen mode. This is because Windows is in full screen mode, and says it wants 16-bit color, and the game has to comply to that -- when the game is in full screen mode and says it wants 32-bit color, it gets 32-bit color. The conversion from 32-bit to 16-bit color means that some things are naturally going to go slower. You should either make sure that World of Warcraft is also set to 16-bit color, or switch Windows to 32-bit color and make sure World of Warcraft is set to 32-bit color. If 32-bit isnt listed but 24-bit is, use 24-bit instead. Just make sure Windows and World of Warcraft are set to the same thing

Past that, understand that you will naturally lose some framerate when running 2 sessions because you're running another program that wants control of the CPU (and video card) for a portion of the time. Both sessions cant have amazing framerate at the same time, because your CPU and video card are limited in what they can do.