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A new addon Spamalyzer is available, which replaces the addon fubar_addonSpamFu. Addons like GearScore (it’s badly coded) and Carbonite can spam the crap out of you when other people have them installed. Note this happens even if you do not have it installed. Other users’ addons generate addon chat traffic. It can be very large and cause latency and lag, unless coded properly like Elitist Group is. Spamalyzer will help you identify spammy raiders so you can tell them Reduce your WoW latency. If you play on an Oceanic server, or on a US server from Europe, lowerping.com is a service which will reduce latency substantially. I have been a paid user now for two months and confidently can say, it works: it halves my in-game latency.
Benefits: normally from the UK playing on an Oceanic server, I get 380 to 400ms lag, but when I’m running lowerping I see 180 to 220ms. Mostly its around 190ms. If you PvP or raid, this make a very noticeable different. Your dps increases, your reaction time is improved, you respond more quickly. You can use their free trial to test for yourself, their server will just disconnect you after 10 minutes or so. You just sign up in the normal way, and your usage is automatically as a trial user. Cost: for an USA/Oceanic server is A$20.45 for three months or European server 16.95 Euro. Setup: is a bit fiddly, they don’t have fancy documentation with clear labelling. I’ll give you some tips here. Lowerping does have a technical support forum also, and you may well find the answers there already before having to ask. Once set up though, it’s rock solid. » continue reading Action-bar customisation addons I just switched to Dominos from Bartender. What really surprised me is it only took about five minutes to reconfigure. I had been worried. It was fast because they seem to use the built-in action bars in a similar way, so the spell-assignments were all transferred. All I had to do was position them where I wanted and disable a few which I don’t use (empty ones). Nearly all the keybindings had remained too, so just My post on improving FPS has been really popular. I have new info, so have updated my original post (updates are something I do often, but I don’t normally write about the update per se). A new version of TweakWoW now lets WoW take advantage of your multi-core CPU. This produced notably higher FPS in Dalaran because it seems my Intel i7 920… just wasn’t being used to its full potential. Update 9pm: I also changed the site theme to Higher FPS in a raid means higher DPS and better reaction-time to events. FPS: here is a new addon TweakWoW which lets you tweak settings (including a reduction in Dalaran lag, worked for me) that are normally hidden in the wtf/config file. A recent version added support for multi-core CPUs and I saw a massive speed boost on my Intel i7 920. Tweaking cache setting to make Dalaran faster Latency: these tips improve latency but they might have |
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