My setup.. 5-Boxing - One monitor, 2GB ram, Single Core ;)

[laeelin]

Cant wait to upgrade my CPU later this month so that I'm sitting at something like 50FPS on the main, and 20FPS on the alts...

Till then I'm stuck at ~20FPS on the focused window, and 2 on the background windows.

Computer:
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (2.39Ghz)
GeForce 7900 GS
2GB Ram

Monitor:
Dell 24' Widescreen
1920x1200
Main Resolution: 1280x600
Clone Resolution: 640x600

I have 6 wow folders. 1 for "normal" play, and 5 for Multiboxing.

This way I can setup diffrence hotkeys, macro, add-on's, and etc between each copy.

I use Keyclone for my keyboard broadcasting, and Maximizer to set my resolutions.

You can build a computer that can run circles around mine for about $500 now.

http://laeelin.com/images/5box.jpg

[keyclone]

very nice. glad i could help with the fps

i'd ask that you edit the post and include the res you are running at and the machine specs. it'd be good for anyone else coming in and interested in putting such a system together.

[Slats]

Nice to see Paladin and Priests is becoming more popular.

I ban you all from making videos though, we dont need 1000 newbies turning up going omgz did you guyz c that video lawls. =)

Yeah and post your machine specs up :D

[laeelin]

Computer:
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (2.39Ghz)
GeForce 7900 GS
2GB Ram

Monitor:
Dell 24' Widescreen
1920x1200
Main Resolution: 1280x600
Clone Resolution: 640x600


I did, It's just hard to see it above the screenshot. :)

I love the idea ;) .. And I'm curious about the possibilities of Holy Nova... If nothing else, it would make farming just sick....

[Slats]

Wish Holy Nova wasn't so stupidly expensive tho. :/

[laeelin]

My main reason for doing this was to have 4 VE's healing my Paladin... I think that would be a lot of fun. :)

Hopefully 4 DPSing shadow priests will add enough firepower/healing to make up for the lack of CC...

Only one way to find out ;)

If not, I'll be making a P/M/M/M/P or P/M/W/W/P group...

Looks great on paper anyway ;)

[Slats]

When your tanking more than about 4 mobs (Elites) at once you need more than VE. So I start most fights with 4 renews, then start dotting everything up. :)

Paladin is an AMAZING tanks.

[wardak]

I'll have to agree with Slats on that one. VE is great, but right now it isn't enough on its own to keep up with heals when tanking multiple elites. 4x Renew to start things off helps tremendously though. :) Good luck with the group and keep us up to date on how it goes! I'm currently doing some cash farming with my 70 paladin to get my 5-box guild a guild bank, I'll be back to work on the paladin and 4 priests soon though!

Good luck out there

[Lost Ninja]

I was sort of thinking of posting a similar thread but asking for advice. I have practically the same machine but am having major graphics issues.

AMD 64 3800+ x2
1Gb Memory (soon to be upgraded to 3Gb)
7900GS
19" CRT @ 1600x1200 ~ 75Hz

I'm only trying to run two clients, each is on a separate HDD but are otherwise identical. I use Keyclone to broadcast keys but I don't use a maximiser.

Even with all graphic settings set to best option for speed, my main screen flicks between 30FPS and 7-8 FPS constantly. The alt screen is set to stay at 10fps when not active and that works.

Thing is the board I have now is supposedly better than my old broken board yet I never had these issues on the old board. Current board is a WinFast nForce570 SLI with all the bells and whistls my old board was a non-SLI cheapo (well cheaper) cutdown everything...

Any suggestions?

[kalih]

In my experience, being truly windowed hurts performance. When I started using a maximizer, I gained performance.

[laeelin]

Might be the ram?

I make sure I reboot just before multiboxing and close all extra programs...

Not sure other than that.

How much ram is on your video card? 256?

[Slats]

Also check out guru3d.com

I am using some Optimized NVIDIA Drivers from a group called DNA and its fixed my FPS issues. I still have slight 'stutter' problems where I will be running at 60fps and my screen will pause for a millisecond then resume, with no drop in FPS --- bit absurd.

Upgrading to a 'real' sound card for my Dell Laptop has helped. I run a Dell XPS 1710 as my 'main' PC. Have a 512MB 7950GTX in it and all my performance issues started after 2.2/2.3 and the update of the sound engine.

[laeelin]

I upgraded to 3gb ram, and a dual core processor (X2 3800+) ... That improved things a lot.

My main is at 35fps (most of the time, even in citys it's 20fps+). My alts are at 10fps. Personally, I find that very playable. 30fps is the critical point for me. I know a lot of people like 50+, but 30+ is all I need. :)


ps: the dual core processor is what made the difference, not the ram.