thatbloke
Junior Administrator
Set it to 1 in your config file to see if it helps anyway? It shouldn't do any harm
Little technical help, please?
- Thread starter Windzarko
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Set it to 1 in your config file to see if it helps anyway? It shouldn't do any harm
Zaggu
In Cryo Sleep
As of patch 3.2.0, WoW can detect the number of cores automatically and take it from there. Adding the entry yourself will not have any sort of harmful effect, however, and since we're down to near desperate attempts to avoid reformatting the poor thing, why not?
Also, have you tried fullscreen as opposed to windowed yet?
Also, have you tried fullscreen as opposed to windowed yet?
Windzarko
Well-Known Member
Yus, although haven't had the chance to do it in a raid as yet. Didn't have an effect when out and about, other than hurting my eeeeeyeeesss
Zaggu
In Cryo Sleep
I'd suggest giving it a shot in any circumstances (other than raids) where your fps tends to commit suicide, such as Dalaran or (it's for the greater good, so no whining, please
) battlegrounds. The later are far more reliable as a test as you have a comparable number of players moving around. Wintergrasp tends to work as well, and I used it for finetuning settings on older systems.
Windzarko
Well-Known Member
Things are suddenly looking hopeful; earlier, my computer shut itself off, and I found the air inside a little uncomfortably warm. After a closer inspection than the last time I opened the case to check for excessive dust, I realised there was a horrible clump of dust stuck right in the middle of the heat sink. Dashed out to Maplins to get some compressed air, cleaned the entire rig thoroughly, and logged back into WoW; bam, 20FPS increase.
It looks a fair bit better now, but this WAS in Gadgetzan with nobody around. Hopefully I'll get to see if it'll noticeably affect my Heroic/raid FPS sometime soonish.
It looks a fair bit better now, but this WAS in Gadgetzan with nobody around. Hopefully I'll get to see if it'll noticeably affect my Heroic/raid FPS sometime soonish.
thatbloke
Junior Administrator
zing!
Hope it works out
You system/BIOS may have been underclocking the CPU in an attempt to keep the temperature low
Tetsuo_Shima
In Cryo Sleep
Hoovering has usually worked for me, as long as you do it with care there are no problems, sar. Although, it sucks *cough* at getting dust out the middle of a heatsink. A compressed air/vacuum combo would do the trick in that case.
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Gombol
Guest
I belive he facepalmed 'cause most hoovers have a static ball at the end of the tube, and has a chance to burn out your circuits. (Unless its a low power hoover or somthing, i think.) correct me if im wrong.
thatbloke
Junior Administrator
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Gombol
Guest
Even when you blow, make sure your mouth is try. And bloke, i could turn that around EASILY, but i dont think you would appreciate it.
T-Bone
In Cryo Sleep
Yeah, you're right. especially is, like most vacuums, the tube is made of a bendable polymer. It does tend to create a lot of static at the end of tube which, like Gombol says, can damage the hardware. It's also not unheard of for vacuums to suck up resistors on old parts when the wiring is run down.
Still, there is no perfect way to do it. I myself use a soft bristled paintbrush in conjunction with canned air and that's not perfect either but still better than a vacuum I reckon.
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Gombol
Guest
The Techhie im doing work experience with uses a paintbrush, along with blowing from himself (After he has dried his mouth) and very rarely a stupidly low powered vaccum (Although he said he would rather not use it if possible.)
Tetsuo_Shima
In Cryo Sleep
Whoops! Then it's probably just good fortune that I haven't damaged anything yet. I think I'll try and steal some compressed air off one of the sparkies in work on monday, my CPU heatsink is getting clogged and it's a bit toasty under hood.