Connection Issues and Some Things To Try

As we know since 3.2-3 their have been many people faced with connection issues, TOC being one of the main gripes with wow players.

Here is a list of things that you can try to improve performance and latency.

1. LeatrixLatencyFix
Try this registry hack here – http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13581-LeatrixLatencyFix.html

This does similar to my Latency Fix in that it adjusts the expected response between the server and client. This is perfectly safe and a good option if you are not techy enough for my solution. The key difference is that in theory linux has a much more efficient network stack and so you should see slightly better result (this is debatable)

2. Disable Bad Addons
Bad Addons I have defined as addons that are inefficienct or that spam ingame channels to share unneeded information. The reason the following modules should be disabled during raids is that they;

  1. Are not needed for raiding
  2. Affect your own performance due to high memory or cpu usage.
  3. They send out a lot of data to shared ingame channels that affects other users (this has been identified as a contributor to dc issues in TOC etc).

If you would like an ingame get Addon Control Panel – http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addo … s/acp.aspx
The bads include;

  • Gearscore – spammmmmmmm, if you have this installed you should be gkicked
  • QuestHelper – notorious for high CPU and member usage.
  • Carbonite – a lot of messages and shit flying around
  • Guild Location Mods – if you have a mod that tells you where guildies are, disable it (maps often do this to show your guildies on your map).
  • Recount – If you use recount turn of Syncing! Or get Skada :)

this list will grow as we identify more fail addons

3. Set maxfps to something more realistic
Setting the maxfps to something like 30 can help when a lot of data is being sent to your graphics card (i.e. whelps or fire being thrown).
I have the following as a macro setup;

/console maxfps 0
/stopmacro [mod]
/console maxfps 30

4. Turn off Combat Log
turning off combat log realy helped me too, so you can give that a shot too :)
Hopefully this will help you

By the way: Tunza rocks!

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  1. Sound
    October 19th, 2009 at 01:43 | #1
     

    This was a great article, I enjoyed it! I tried all of the things you said.. but I can't seem to figure out how to actually turn off the combat log. Did you mean hide it behind the other windows? Or is there a way to actually turn it off for a set period of time?

    • October 19th, 2009 at 10:18 | #2
       

      When I talk about the combat log I mean the log output to C:\WorldofWarcraft\Logs
      This can be enabled/disabled by typing /combatlog

      You should see a message in your chat frame saying Combat Log was enabled (or disabled)

  2. bubblecannon
    October 19th, 2009 at 12:09 | #3
     

    Combo of less people in H.ToC25 and being fairly ruthless turning off mods helps a lot. I did write a little addon to track down noisy addons in a raid. Lets you drop the banhammer on who's causing a lot of traffic. Once I tidy it up I'll send it to you (but you can get a similar thing from curse - I just like using my own utilities)

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