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Just got back into WoW. Running an Alienware M17, with Vista 64-bit. Loaded up Decal, and whenever I have an actual plug in open (take castaway for example), the screen gets extremely choppy/jerky. Whenever I minimize the app in game, I'm able to move freely without issue.
Anyone have any suggestions? I'll provide whatever information I can to help.
Thanks in advance!
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what plugins, how much memory, how much video memory, what resolution you running at.
all important to the dicusssion and no information provided.
well obviously keep the plugin in windows closed as much as possible.
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8 GB of RAM - ATI Radeon Mobility 3870 X2 - 1 GB video RAM
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Right now just using the Castaway plug in. Have GoArrow loaded, but it was doing the same thing so I removed it. Castaway does it by itself, then I uninstall Castaway, and run GoArrow, same problem. Things just get strangely choppy.
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Oh and the resolution is 1920X1200.
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Now this is interesting....if I take it off Full Screen view, when the apps are going the game runs at normal speed. Video card drivers perhaps?
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It's happened to me for years now.. when I open a plugin the framerate goes down drastically.
Oh, and to the OP.. since when does WoW support decal? 
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This is a limitation of Decal Views, and part of the reason I developed the Virindi View Service. However, plugins have to be specifically written to use VVS and currently that list only includes my own plugins, as well as Screenr and ScrollReader3 by Lino.
http://white.virindi.net:8080/wiki/index.php/Virindi_Views
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That stupid WoW game....it's like a disease that follows me everywhere!
I meant *AC* heh
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Thanks for the info V...I'll start playing around with that and see what I can come up with!
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so if the problem is most evident in full screen mode the simple work around would be: make desktop slightly bigger then the desired AC window size, run AC in windows mode at that resolution.
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even in windowed mode, it is choppy
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I got an ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 and I get the same problem if I have any of the decal apps up on screen with exception of HUDS or Go Arrow. It's a problem with the way decal views are rendered and the way 2 (or more) gpus process the screens.
If there was a way for you to disable one of the 2 gpus via ATI's drivers (as far as I know there is no way unless you have a disable crossfire option), then the flickering will go away.
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This only happened to me when I had AC installed on a different hard drive than my decal plugins. I had to create a file under the C drive that wasnt program files like a Games folder and put everything under it.
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I would imagine it has to do with Decal taking precedence over AC for visuals. It doesn't happen for me when I'm on the main page of most Decal plugins, but traversing to sub-pages generates the choppiness. You can view similar choppiness if you run AC in a window, then click outside the window; usually the game runs choppy for one to a few minutes then corrects, running full speed even unselected. It's getting re-assigned in the visual update queue no?
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