Bluescreen after Multiboxing

[speedy243]

Hey,

today i got a Bluescreen multiboxing with 4 open WoWs
Main = 1440 x 900 | wow1.exe
3 Toons = 800x600 | wow2.exe maxfps "20"

my System is:

Win XP SP3
Intel Core 2 Duo
E8400 @ 3GHz
3,25GB RAM

i was atm in Dalaran when suddenly my Computer had like 1FPS.
in the bluescreen something was something to read of "ati2dvag" , which caused the Crash.

so, my question is if it helps maybe to have one copy of wow for every Toon on the Harddisk, not to cause this Crash.
My Computer worked perfectly from 1-80, dunno why this happens now...

or is it senseless to have various WoWs for every Toon on the HDD?

thanks for the answer

[sixzandsevenz]

I can't tell you why it crashed, I'm not that good with computers. But I run 4 copies of wow, 1 for each toon.

[Sychosys]

I found having it look like multiple copies but using system links (Can search the forums) to have made things soo much smoother.

HOwever, I would suggest that its your graphics card, if it is an ATI to match the file name, that is having the issues. Sounds like it just gave up. Was this your first time in DAl with em all ??

[speedy243]

I found having it look like multiple copies but using system links (Can search the forums) to have made things soo much smoother.

HOwever, I would suggest that its your graphics card, if it is an ATI to match the file name, that is having the issues. Sounds like it just gave up. Was this your first time in DAl with em all ??i was one time before in dalaran, and back then it LAGGED also..

so i need to make 50gb space on my HDD free hope it works better then :) thanks for the answers

[Sychosys]

I highly suggest searching the forums for the System Link setup. You only copy a few of the files like the EXEs and link everything else to the same folders.. It may help with the hard drive grind load times and maybe MAYBE the graphics crash was caused by it (things ground down to the point where the hardware went Gah!)...

Might want to check out this link ('http://www.modernstreet.com/general/ati2dvag-problem/') for more info on what ya saw.

[Aarelan]

My laptop does the same. Its also an ATI card. 4 copies = OK, 5 = BSOD (blue screen of death). It happens whenever free video memory drops below 40k (I have a program to monitor that).

My desktop (Nvidia) runs 5 copies no problem - even with the graphics maxed.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

If you can set your system up to capture kernel dumps and get the MEMORY.DMP file posted somewhere online, some of us could probably take a quick look and verify what else might be in play there.

[edit] Also, I highly recommend you look up how to link all your data folders for wow so it only has to read one set of files instead of each, as Sychosis mentioned. It's a very cheap way to minimize the impact on your HDDs. The folders I have linked (I'm on XP, so I used NTFS junction points ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=17763&highlight=junction&l=2') ; I use this software ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=12095') to do it painlessly) are the following:
wow\Data wow\Addons (for easy updating of all clients ;) )I would NOT link the WTF folder as you run the risk of overwriting certain settings if you're not careful.

[Enndo]

What size is your power supply?

[DrChaos]

Im gonna say that you need one of 2 things. 1. update the video driver. Even if you think you have, do a manual search and see if there is a new one. Most programs that look for driver updates will no find an updated driver for the video cards. OR 2. could be an over heating problem on the card itself.

I run 5 wows on my computer and have ran 7 at one time. I had similar errors untill i dl the latest nVidia control panel and set the fan speed higher on the card. it was on system default (auto) which is about 15 - 20% fan speed. I havent had any problems since.

[wowphreak]

Well considering yeh only have 3 gigs of memory and tried to go to dalaran...

Try going with only yer main and one other do ctrl alt delete and see how much memory both take.

Most likely what happen is all yer wow's ballooned up to more then yeh have memory Xp started dropping thing to the hard drive at the same time its trying to load texture to the graphics card while trying update the screen of a wow that got dropped to the harddrive lots of thrashing occured till finally something gave out.

having separate instalsl of wow will make this worse.

[Moorea]

It happens whenever free video memory drops below 40k (I have a program to monitor that).

I did a quick search and couldn't find anything - what is that program you use ? I'm having issue with my new gear and I'm curious if it has to do with gpu memory (though having 896mb should be enough for 5 wows I would expect (it worked fine on 512mb on my laptop before))

[Oathbreaker]

If you really want to know what it is going on...

Configure your system to capture a full memory dump - not just the kernel. I'll live with just the kernel if that's all you got. Zip up the memory.dmp file. Send me a private message and I'll provide you with an ftp location to upload the dump file to. I'll get back to you in a few days.

-Oath

[Moorea]

If you really want to know what it is going on...

Configure your system to capture a full memory dump - not just the kernel. I'll live with just the kernel if that's all you got. Zip up the memory.dmp file. Send me a private message and I'll provide you with an ftp location to upload the dump file to. I'll get back to you in a few days.

-Oath

Uh ?

Want to extract login/password and other private info from the dump ? good try...