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Last Update:	April 26, 2008 (2 months ago)
Category:	Other
Tags:	dynamic, fps, graphic, improvement, and performance
Project Manager:	Kaboom
Website:	visit
Current Version:	DynamicPerformance V1.1 (for World of Warcraft 2.4.0)
Downloads Today:	13
Downloads Total:	2,057
Favorites:	26
Comments:	17

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Created On:	April 7, 2008
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About DynamicPerformance

You've got an average PC?

Normally you've got 40FPS (frames per second) but you experience a massive FPS decrease in Shattrath and on Isle of Quel'danas? You are worried about the 12FPS while doing raid dungeons?

But you won't throttle down your settings before a raid begins or permanently because when doing solo-content you have an average of 40FPS?

Then this is the perfect add-on for you:
D Y N A M I C P E R F O R M A N C E

What this addon does: This small but great add-on automatically adapts your graphics settings in real-time according to the situation. The basis for this addon is that you have an average pc that usually has enough power to provide an acceptable visual appearance, but the power doesn't suffice in some special cases.

By typing /dp or /DynamicPerformance you will see a small window where you can define your desired framerate. when your framerate is below your defined framerate (because you enter Shattrath or you are close to a battlemaster) the add-on will adapt specific graphical settings dynamically until the desired framerate is reached again.

This mechanism works in both directions: If your framerate is far above your desired one, the add-on will raise the graphic settings as much as possible.

parameters that are affected by the add-on: - visibility range of objects (it will get foggy sometimes *g*) - visibility range of landscape (far mountains will disappear) - visibility range of herbage and similar landscape characteristics - visibility range of small objects {weather effects (removed due to an internal bug of WoW)} -spell detail level (range from 5 to 10, because below 5 ground effects are not visible anymore)

All adaptions are made dynamically and there won't be any disrupting effects (e.g. lag because of ReloadUI).

Visibility ranges in battlegrounds will be less adapted as for example in Shattrath because otherwise you may recognize enemy movement too late.

I N S T A L L A T I O N

Important: You have to shutdown WoW before installing this addon.

Now unzip the ZIP-archive to your addon-directory. Normally its found in the "interface"-subdirectory of WoW. for example: "c:\worldofwarcraft\interface\addons\"

Restart WoW an log in. As soon as the loadingscreen disapears, a new window pops up. it will show you the actual stats and qualitysettings. There's a slider on the right side of the frame. Its used to set the desired frames per seconds (its set to 27fps per default)

To activate or deactivate the addon, use the buttons of this frame, or do it directly by the slashcommands. (see below)

C O N T R O L

There is eigther a minimapbutton nor an extension for Titan or FuBar. Use to following slashcommands instead:

- /dp or /dynamicperformance

    This will show /hide the configframe

- /dp on/off

    To activate or deactivate the addon directly without GUI

On betatesting the addon, i removed some configs to keep the tool as simple as possible. You don't have to create or modify any profiles and there aren't any complex configurations to set.

While scripting the addon, i copied a lot of good ideas and concepts of WowAce. So DynamicPerformance uses as less ressources as possible (40-100KiB)

Special thanks goes to the guild "Knights of Saxony" (http://wow.kos-gilde.de) and some ex-members. They helped me to develop the addon, made some betatests, gave feedbacks, fixed some typos etc...

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

Installation Guide

Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
  - Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
  - WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
  - WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
  - StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
Start World of Warcraft
Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.

Translations

When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.

If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.

Mac Support

WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.

Directory Structure

World of Warcraft
    |_ Interface
        |_AddOns
            |_*AddonName*
                |_ *AddonName*.toc
                |_ *AddonName*.xml
                |_ *AddonName*.lua
                |_ (possibly others as well)...

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Kaboom said
April 26, 2008, 08:41AM (2 months, 1 week ago)
well, i'm sorry for this :(
i was doing many research about this problem. it seems that MacUsers got many, many graphic-problems in wow. maybe the wow-client for MacOSX suxx a little bit *G*

on version 1.1, i tried to implement some workarounds to this problem. but no garantuee: i DONT KNOW if its fixed now.

MAC-USERS BEWARE:
USE THIS ADDON AT YOUR OWN RISK

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bob4apples said
April 23, 2008, 02:13AM (2 months, 2 weeks ago)
I think this is an awesome addon and seemed to work well for a couple of days.
I'm running Mac OSX 10.5.2 btw
Started having disconnections which were then followed by complete system lockups and had to do hard restarts every time,and delete my wtf file.
Tracked the problem to this mod, has caused me much pain and misery and ive had to completely dump WoW and do a full re install. YaY for 2 hour UI setups!!
Great idea and as i said it did work well for a while, i wont be touching it again with a ten foot pole though unfortunately.

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Kaboom said
April 17, 2008, 09:05AM (2 months, 2 weeks ago)
hmmmm... ok, i see, there MUST be a problem with MacOS...
i'll do some research. but it MUST be an bug by blizzard, because my addon just adjust 5 parameters of the GFX-settings. nothing more...

edit:
a few days passed - and i still have NO idea...

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rmkbow said
April 23, 2008, 05:33PM (2 months, 1 week ago)
i think i found out what the problem is. i'm not sure what this does, but when i comment it out, the mod seems to work fine. when i use this commmand in game manually, it crashes my WoW client the same way

ConsoleExec("SkyCloudLOD 3")

again, i have no clue what the skycloudlod does..... but all i did was comment it out and the mod appears to work.

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Kaboom said
April 26, 2008, 08:48AM (2 months, 1 week ago)
i'll give it a try, and commented it out by default (check version 1.1)
thx for your tip.

what this command does is really simple. it pushes the "level of detail" of your clouds to max. on windows, they look much more like clouds. normally, the look like "fog in the sky" ^^

on version 1.1 i implemented some other ideas to fix the problem. hope, it works...

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Stickboy42 said
April 15, 2008, 08:02PM (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
Hey, I also use Mac 10.5, and since I've installed this addon, I get fatal crashes and have do hard restarts of my computer every once in a while. And sometimes when I go through a portal, especially one to Shattrath, not only do I have to do a hard reset, I have to delete my WTF folder in order to get WoW running again, which is quite annoying to redo all of my settings.

I would love to see this fixed, because it is a great addon and I want to continue to use it. As it is, I keep it installed and just go through the tribulations of computer crashes.

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rmkbow said
April 12, 2008, 09:07AM (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
Hi there. I'm running WoW on mac 10.5, and I am also getting the crashes when logging out of a character, then logging back in with any character. Please let me know if there are more details I can provide to help fix this bug

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Kaboom said
April 26, 2008, 08:49AM (2 months, 1 week ago)
well... how many times do you have to config dynamic performance?
for me, i set the FPS to 27 and keep the tool running. everytime.

if you have to turn it on/off a few times, tell my WHY and in which situations you have to modify your settings. maybe i can implement some automatic features.

and by the way: i have no idea how to make a fubar-plugin ^^
minimap-button, for sure (just an additional xml-object with a lot of bloated code.)

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projectwinback said
April 8, 2008, 08:01PM (2 months, 4 weeks ago)
Great mod. It works like a charm. No problems here, its all in real time and works great! THANKS! :D

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AKMoose said
April 8, 2008, 07:24PM (2 months, 4 weeks ago)
I run MacOS 10.4.11. My addons are updated daily, sometimes two or more times a day. DP definitely crashes WoW when I log in, log out and back in again. It crashes whether I have DP on or off when I log out. When I deactivate DP via the addon list, WoW does not crash.

There may be a mod conflict and would be happy to list what I have installed if you think it will help.

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Kaboom said
April 8, 2008, 06:23PM (2 months, 4 weeks ago)
oh...
yes please.

up to now, nobody had crashes with the addon :(

are you shure its not another addon causing the crashes? (i already heard about 'em. e.g. old versions of gatherer, cartographer etc could cause this)

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AKMoose said
April 8, 2008, 06:19PM (2 months, 4 weeks ago)
I love the concept but I'm having problems with DP crashing WoW when I log out and switch characters. If you need more information, I would be happy to help.

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Kaboom said
April 7, 2008, 11:11PM (2 months, 4 weeks ago)
hmmm... thats why i built in the command /dynamicperformance..
maybe i should also add "/dynperf" ^^
thx.

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thegriff said
April 7, 2008, 06:58PM (2 months, 4 weeks ago)
Hi Kaboom, just wanted to let you know that /dp is also used by Fizzwidget Disenchant Predictor.

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thegriff said
April 7, 2008, 06:36PM (2 months, 4 weeks ago)
I really like this, and I haven't tried it in Shat, but it does work else where

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Kaboom said
April 7, 2008, 08:35AM (3 months ago)
thats strange...
the addon IS compatible to ALL clients. (but actually only localized for english an german.)
how do i get this homepage to show this information?

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