Addons Causing FPS drop?

[Damerflinn]

So I downloaded a bunch of addons today that were a part of some UI package. And everything was going well, got it all set up and went to move around, and noticed that my frames dropped a good deal.

Part of the pack was Spartan UI, and I didn't like the way that it locked the player frame and target frame and hate the focus frame (still can't get that to go away). So I disabled the player and target frames, and installed X-perl. Because I used it before and really liked it. But it seems like this is the problem, because while they are still dropping in pretty large measures (40 down to like 20) every couple of seconds it's staying up a bit more.

Is there are a way around this? My addons aren't using that much space. At least I don't think so. Titan panel is showing 35 MB of memory, but the blizzard thingy says it's only about 14 MB. I thought that it might just be that Titan is more sensitive then the default one, but they are matching so it's not just Titan. But it's telling me that Grid, and Atlas Loot loader are the big users, and Since I'm only using the target and player frames from x-perl I didn't think it would make that much of a difference as it's really small.

Any advice? I could probably recreate the look of Titan without the actually Titan part because it's just the location of stuff and a skin on the bottom, and that could make it a bit easier on my computer.

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I would highly suggest ChocolateBar instead of Titan, as most LibDataBroker addons are much more lightweight and you can much more freely customize chocolatebar with plugins you download as separate addons. Grid can be fairly CPU intensive but only really in raids, I haven't really used x-perl since the start of TBC so I can't comment on its efficiency however I would recommend Shadowed Unit Frames as they are very lightweight and imho look lovely ^^

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dropping in pretty large measures (40 down to like 20) every couple of seconds

Way back in the days, I started getting massive FPS drops every 3-5 seconds while playing. After a long, loooong time (several months), I managed to track it down to TitanPanel having an active plugin that showed FPS, memory usage, latency and such. If you have that plugin activated, try disabling it (just make sure it's not on your bars), and see if that helps.

[Damerflinn]

I'll check out those suggested add ons, and definitely look into that titan panel plug in.

But I think I tracked it down to actually be Pet Tracker. It lagged everything because it was constantly tracking all the pets in a zone. So now I just turn it off when I'm not looking to do anything with pets and everything has returned to normal, and because of changing the settings on x-perl and such I'm actually getting a bit more FPS now then I was before. Thanks for the replies.