Is classic getting dedicated physical servers?

[Dealloc-dethecus (Dealloc)]

Classic won’t have all the added effects and graphics/physics that were added over the years.

That only effects your PC. That has zero impact on servers.

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

That only effects your PC. That has zero impact on servers.

Communication issues with spell effect communication and changes in effect (damage taken, debuffs etc) are higher and not a specific thing to your PC.

[Dealloc-dethecus (Dealloc)]

Zydas sounded like he was talking about graphical type stuff

I can’t speak to how the communication of players using spells/abilities to the server has changed over the years. I know very little about it not being a Blizzard employee and all.

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

I know very little about it not being a Blizzard employee and all.

From what I’ve read (since server-client communication is not private), BfA and Legion have a far higher load than anything beforehand. Though the only thing we currently have to compare is the Vanilla 1.12 client since we haven’t got a working Classic server.

[Dealloc-dethecus (Dealloc)]

BfA and Legion have a far higher load than anything beforehand.

OK, but the most we can know is what a payload looks like that’s being sent to the server and how often it is sent. How the back-end processes that payload we can only guess.

So just because more stuff is being sent that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s harder on the servers. It could mean that. But we only have half the picture.

[Eopoo-anetheron]

Thank you all for the input in this thread.

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

So just because more stuff is being sent that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s harder on the servers. It could mean that. But we only have half the picture.

Increased communication generally means increased calculation load so that it can work out it needs to send the message.

[Dealloc-dethecus (Dealloc)]

Increased communication generally means increased calculation

You can do a lot with a little or a little with a lot. That’s all I’m saying.

[Mistwynd-lightbringer (Mistwynd)]

…Vanilla’s dialled back effects and reduced need for communication should improve the stability of a given shard with far more people than BfA, when Classic launches. …

I don’t think the less advanced spell effects matter for server stability. Graphical effects are all rendered client-side. Nothing to do with the server.

However, it is possible that a reduced need for communication might mean the server can handle a bit more than Retail. But it’s pure speculation my part.

[Zydas-sargeras]

Zydas sounded like he was talking about graphical type stuff

I can’t speak to how the communication of players using spells/abilities to the server has changed over the years. I know very little about it not being a Blizzard employee and all.

It’s a factor. Even on high end PCs raiding hurts your FPS alot. Abilities are significantly more complicated than they were back in the day. Not only for you but NPC’s as well. All the calculations for combat take up alot of processing power now. It all adds up to the game not running well for most people anymore.

[anon94200297]

Yeah all of this and - my problem with sharding/Xrealm is not because I pvp, it is because it messes with the integrity of the world. Many times I will, for instance, be gathering and see an herb or a mining node and run to it to pick it up only to see it magically disappear. I will go back to where I just was and it will reappear. I go over to it again and it disappears again. This is apparently an effect of sharding or Xrealm. I am not a coder so the indepth explanations of how and why this happens are a bit beyond me but it seems silly to explain that his must happen to balance server load since everywhere I go anymore the severs seem empty. I really don’t want to see this sort of thing happening in Classic. It felt more like one continuous world then.

It’s not done to balance server loads, it’s done to balance zone loads. When you shard or CRZ, you aren’t leaving your “server”. Multiple realms live on a single server. What is happening is you are being moved to a shard with fewer players in a specific geofence of the zone as to make sure there’s enough mobs, nodes, etc to go around for that particular geofence.