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Post by
Stabya23
Last night I sucked at DPS on the Nef fight. (13th out of 15)
I was checking my poisons, my gear, my latency...I couldnt understand it.
Then I checked my addon memory and I saw I left Auctionator on. So I turned it off, and the next fight, I was back in the top 5 like I always am.
Can anyone explain the correlation between addon memory and performance? It makes me want to not run recount anymore, because by the time the fight reached the 3rd phase there is alot of data.
If having auctionator on made that much difference in my DPS, is there other things I can tweak to perhaps make it even better?
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Post by
soccergenius
Resource hungry addons like Auctioneer take up memory and CPU cycles even when it's not actively running when at the auction house. If you have a slow CPU, disabling Auctioneer will give you back more CPU cycles for other things. What you did was increase your FPS. If that alone brought you back to #5, then your FPS should have been bad enough to notice it, like below 20 FPS, so I was checking my poisons, my gear, my latency...I couldnt understand it. makes no sense to me. You probably had other things going on, at least in addition to a FPS loss.
Post by
Zakkhar
Known memory hogs:
recount, scrolling combat text (sct), xperl or any other UI frame (if you turn on everthing), auctioneer (with all included, enchantrix etc).
Betters addons:
skada, msbt, xperl with *!@# turned off, auctionator
Also: combat log with all @#$% on (i got everything off).
Post by
Coldkil
WoW is based much on CPU. You can have like 100Mb of addons memopry used, and still not experience any problem.
The problem are addon like Auctioneer or others that have monitors working on background, and they use a good chunk of CPU, reducing your fps by a lot if you have a less recent system.
As pointed above, also recount, due to it's nature, uses lots of resources. I don't use it anymore - if you need only a dps meter, go with TinyDps. But recount is really good it offers a perfect breakdown of your performance.
Post by
Meggie
I've never been able to use use Recount in 25 man raids. But I've made server-first kills with xPerl.
Post by
Caperon
go with TinyDps
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