trouble 5-boxing Rift

[Warwick]

I am running a i7 dual core 3.5ghertz processor
6 gigs of ram
Windows 7
Nvidia GTX 260 2 gig card x2
Inner Space + ISBoxer for mult-boxing

I had thought my cards were SLI'ed but they were not. So I am thinking that my trouble running 5 accounts on the same system is related to a blockneck caused by the one card.

I plan on buying a second monitor and running 2 accounts on the second card. Currently I can run 2 on one card without issue. 3 is quite playable but a little choppy (15-18 FPS). Running 3 accounts I am at 30% CPU usage and ~3.8 gig memory used.

In the opinion of the board does this system have enough horpsepower to run 4 accounts? (5th will be on a second system)

[Oatboat]

Please check your core settings in ISBOXER. Click on character set and select your 5 man team.

This will be the biggest issue with rift at the moment.

Put 1 client on cores 1-2, 1 client on cores 2-3 and etc

[MiRai]

I am running a i7 dual core 3.5ghertz processor
As far as I can remember there are no dual-core i7's, they're all Quad or Hex cores. This means one of 2 things:

A. You actually have a dual-core processor meaning you're definitely running out of horsepower trying to run 5 copies.

or

B. You actually have a quad core i7 in which then you'll need to follow Oatboat's advice and assign processor affinity if
you haven't already.

[Warwick]

Sorry it is a quad core. I will try the core choices and see how it goes.

[crowdx]

So how does 5 copies work if the i7 has 4 real cores and 4 virtual cores? How could you assign 2 per copy?
I have this cpu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115224 and I too have issues running the 5th client, my system has 12 gig of memory and an ATI 6870 1gig Video card.
My notebook with an nVidia m460 with similar specs is actually running Rift better than my desktop with the Ati card.

[MiRai]

So how does 5 copies work if the i7 has 4 real cores and 4 virtual cores? How could you assign 2 per copy?
I have this cpu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115224 and I too have issues running the 5th client, my system has 12 gig of memory and an ATI 6870 1gig Video card.
My notebook with an nVidia m460 with similar specs is actually running Rift better than my desktop with the Ati card.
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=38863

[crowdx]

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=38863
Well I tried this and I am still getting sub 20 fps dropping to sub 10 fps in Meridan. My laptop is holding above 15fps and most of the time it sits at 20+ fps.
The weird thing I am seeing in the desktop is that the cpu is spiking a lot more on the desktop than on the notebook.
Any other suggestions?

[cichard]

there are acouple new video settings they added in game u may want to check all your slaves and your main to make sure these are turned off it helped me alot also Rift is having a known issue right now with graphic problems and they are resovling some of the issues.

[Krago]

Also, try killing the RiftErrorReportingProcess that is spawned for each client.
Killing those helped my frame rates.

[crowdx]

Also, try killing the RiftErrorReportingProcess that is spawned for each client.
Killing those helped my frame rates.

With 5 clients on a single machine, what are you guys getting fps wise? I really think considering I have an i7 960 3.2ghz, 12 gig of memory and running from an SSD that it should be able to run the 5 clients with reasonable fps.

[Warwick]

I am running an i7 3.2 with 6gig on a GTX 260 and can run 3 at a playable rate (~15FPS). 2 plays at 60 FPS. This is with the video options pulled to low

I have yet to get 5 running concurrently

[crowdx]

So then the last question here would be what resolution people are getting 5 clients running at? I think my issue may have been the desktop monitor is running 1920x1200 whereas the notebook is running 1500 x 840 and so it may be the difference for the laptop.

[Krago]

I am running 5 clients on a Core2Quad 9550 OC'd to 3.1 GHz, 8 GB RAM, ATI 4890
All are set to 1920x???? need to check the last portion
I have the main client capped at 25FPS and the slaves are at 10/15 FPS

All are set to Low render mode but the main ( my tank ) has some extra effects enabled.

Only time I have an issue is when all are in Sanctum.
Rifts and everything else are fine.

[Krago]

Also, I have ISB set to run the 1st four clients on thier own CPU and I believe I have the 5th set to run across all 4 cores but i will need to double check this.

[cichard]

I run all 5 clients at 1360/768 due to the fact my middle monitor is a lcd tv and thats the top it can go to with out flickering. Same as above i run all my slaves in low quality rendering and cap their FPS at 10 and my main sits at about 25 to 30 in instances or out 5man killing stuff in rift closing i drop down to 15 or less depending on how may people around which before the patch i was still over 20 in that situation.

[crowdx]

So am I correct in saying most people that are running 5 clients on a single machine are using the low renderer option?

[Alge]

I am using the low quality renderer, yes. I run 5 clients at 1920 x 1200. I have an i7 860 which is slightly overclocked and a 5800. I have my foreground set to 30 FPS and my slaves set to 15 FPS. I have everything turned down in game except a couple of things on my main. Even so, I still get slowdowns (maybe down to 10FPS) if I am doing a boss at the end of a major invasion and there are a lot of other people around.

If I want to see RIFT in all its visual glory, I single box.

Alge

[cichard]

^ agree.i have a quad q9450 2.66 over clocked to 3.0 and an ati radeon 5700 hd card i which i could over clock it but when i just enable overdrive and do nothing to the settings i get a horrid screen shake on my other 2 monitors.

[crowdx]

So I have been keeping an eye on my cpu usage and with 5 clients I seem to get a lot of spikes that are at 100% cpu usage, with an i7 960 cpu clocked at 3.6ghz I would think cpu would not be an issue??

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Also, try killing the RiftErrorReportingProcess that is spawned for each client.
Killing those helped my frame rates.

That's amusing. I'll have to try that tonight as I have _never_ seen that utility do a damn thing when my Rift clients crash.

[crowdx]

One last question here, if I was to add a second video card for the slaves, would this help fps? Or does it not give any additional performance?

[cichard]

if you ran SLI or Crossfire it would

[MiRai]

if you ran SLI or Crossfire it would
SLI/CF has never been recommended for multiboxing. If RIFT is different I would like to see a performance
chart... charts always explain things the best.

[crowdx]

BUT would the second card help with the slaves? Does it help in WoW?

[MiRai]

BUT would the second card help with the slaves? Does it help in WoW?
In WoW I was unsuccessful at using the second video card's memory at all while trying to split the load. While I
was able to use a little of its GPU power I felt that the main card was still doing more work. That's when I just
opted for the top of the line monstrosity that nVidia had.

[cichard]

In WoW I was unsuccessful at using the second video card's memory at all while trying to split the load. While I
was able to use a little of its GPU power I felt that the main card was still doing more work. That's when I just
opted for the top of the line monstrosity that nVidia had.


agree