WoW performance question

[Chefcheech]

Before i ask, I just want to give my thanks to any and everyone who helped develope keyclone. Its a priceless piece of software that I would gladly buy again and I recommend it to all of my friends as well any other beginner multiboxer out there. I truly love you guys!

Anyway, what are some tips to upping my performance when running 3 WoW windows at the same time?

I have tried lowering the gfx settings on all but my master window and while it works, it doesnt run as if there is 1 WoW instance running. I know that sounds like a bug "DUH" moment but I dont have the sufficient hardware to run WoW on any of my other ptuers and laptops.

I found the best way to keep the lag down to a minimum is by making the other windows very small and lowering the gfx settings all the way on said 2 windows, while keeping the gfx maxxed on my master windoe (cept shadows, i dont like them). The only problem with that is I have to reset the gfx to minimum each time and that becomes a pain.

Is there any way to bypass this? Can I keep those windows the same as far as gfx wise and not to reconfigure it everytime?

I have an ATI Crossfire gfx card and 2 gigs of ram, I have 2 extra gigs of ram I could put into my puter, will that help? My PC is by no means old and decrepit and I can run most new games on max (cept Crysis).



Any help would be great

[moosejaw]

To address the gfx settings reset:

Make another wow install folder for the clones and make a dynamic link to first install for the data, cach and interface folders. Search the MKlink command for Vista users. This will allow you to set the clones at min gfx and lower AA if you choose.

The extra ram will really help out. Toss it in to help out overall performance. You will find a lot of debate on ram and 32/64 bit performance if you search around these forums.

If you are running 2 monitors then using one video card is prefered. Once again there is much debate to found about one vs two video cards in these forums. I yanked a video card on my machine and plug 2 monitors into one card.

You can also see some performance gains by turning down the AA for your primary instance. Going from 8x to 4x alone showed a huge performance gain for me. I currently run all instances with the same settings but the clone windows are very small.

Good luck.

[Chefcheech]

how would I go about making a "dynamic link" another install folder for my clones?



Im running XP btw



thanks for the help