Trying to Box Rift

[Dranny817]

Hi all I thought with the new F2P I would look at multiboxing Rift. Now my Rig as it stands now is.

I5 2500k @4.3Ghz
GTX 660Ti
32Gb Ram
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

Now I tried 5 and 3 box and can't get it to run it just eats my PC alive for some reason. Anyone able to help or should I just give it up as a lost cause.

[crowdx]

You should try to drop the slaves all down to lowest and if that does not work you can change to the low render mode which looks like cr*p but should allow the main client to look pretty decent at medium to high settings. I have a Samsung Gamer Laptop with a 675M and 16gb of ram running 5 clients pretty well, so no reason you should not be able to get it running.

[Dranny817]

You should try to drop the slaves all down to lowest and if that does not work you can change to the low render mode which looks like cr*p but should allow the main client to look pretty decent at medium to high settings. I have a Samsung Gamer Laptop with a 675M and 16gb of ram running 5 clients pretty well, so no reason you should not be able to get it running.

Ok thanks will give that a shot later on.

[Dranny817]

Still not able to box cpu running at 100% on 5 box :-(

[JohnGabriel]

Loading just 1 at a time, how many before it slows to a crawl?

[crowdx]

I also just noticed in your list of specs you are using an i5 cpu, everything I have uses i7, so the cpu most likely is your bottleneck

[Dranny817]

Loading just 1 at a time, how many before it slows to a crawl?

Only get two on once third is on it starts to peak.


I also just noticed in your list of specs you are using an i5 cpu, everything I have uses i7, so the cpu most likely is your bottleneck


I guess it is all bad new then for multiboxing Rift on my i5 then. might see if I can stick an i7 in my MB and see how much it costs.

[Smedbox]

I'd recommend using multiple computers. If you're going to get new parts anyway, put them in a new box and keep your old box as a secondary. Enjoy good graphics and a smooth experience. :)

[Dranny817]

I'd recommend using multiple computers. If you're going to get new parts anyway, put them in a new box and keep your old box as a secondary. Enjoy good graphics and a smooth experience. :)

Would love to have more machines but dont have the space tbh, well not atm anyways.

I looked into a i7 and I can put a i7 3770k without having to get a new MB anyone running the 3770k while multiboxing.?

[moog]

The i7 3770k is a 4 core / 8 thread chip running at 3.5GHz / 3.9GHz Turbo, according to http://ark.intel.com/products/65523
which is a pretty much identical spec to my i7-920 overclocked to 4GHz... http://ark.intel.com/products/37147

I can 5-box Rift - my main has graphics set to low but I've had to drop the other 4 down to the low quality renderer, else my GPU (2GB ATI 6950) was running at 99% all the time.
My CPU sits at around 40-70% load.
I get anything from 25-40 FPS on the main and the others are capped at 15FPS in the background.
I originally set ISBoxer to use all cores/threads for all slots (following the example in the video I watched) but I've since changed that to 2 threads per client and it *seems* to be performing better.
RAM wise, I'm hitting around 10GB of my 12GB with all 5 loaded. The 2GB of the GPU is pretty much maxed out, too, so make sure neither of those are your new bottleneck.

[Klesh]

Did you modify the config file to
MainThreadCPU = 0
Otherwise all clients will run on the same core = lagfest central.

[Mystic]

My machine is sort of middle line performance, these days at least. Running an i5-2310 at 2.90 GHz, not OC, 64-bit Windows 7, 8GB RAM, and an ATI Radeon 5770, clocked to 950 MHz GPU clock and 1435 MHz memory clock.

I can run 5 clients and not tax out the system. Each client varies between 12 fps and 20 fps depending on how much has to be rendered.
I run each client at low, using the standard renderer (haven't needed to try the low qual renderer). It's certainly not optimal but it is playable.

I also have an old Dell XPS 420 (a quad core Q6600), with the same ATI Radeon 5770, and while it will run WoW five clients at high quality, it will NOT run 5xRift. I get about 1.3 fps max per client, and mostly the rendering lag is just too terrible and crashes out the clients.

[Krago]

I use to run RIFT 5 boxing on my old Core2Quad Q6600 with an 4970 I believe and 8GB of RAM.
I had to run down everything on the 4 slaves to low - low render and the main I ran at mid - custom it was playable at 20-30 fps.

[Dranny817]

Did you modify the config file to
MainThreadCPU = 0
Otherwise all clients will run on the same core = lagfest central.

No but will try that later on tonight. fingers crossed. :eek:

[moog]

Did you modify the config file to
MainThreadCPU = 0
Otherwise all clients will run on the same core = lagfest central.

Changed this on all the virtual config files and it has made a *big* difference - many thanks for that :)

[Dranny817]

Well not had no joy. I have noticed I have a svchost running and it keep jumping between 0-75% cpu usage looking into what might be causing it. thinking of just wiping my pc and starting over alot of crap on there atm.

[Dranny817]

Turns out my problem was my memory not sure how or why but removed some of my memory after being told i5 can have problems with 4 slots of memory over 16gb.? which I didn't know but my cpu now is a steady 85-93% running 5 box.

[MiRai]

Turns out my problem was my memory not sure how or why but removed some of my memory after being told i5 can have problems with 4 slots of memory over 16gb.? which I didn't know but my cpu now is a steady 85-93% running 5 box.
Unless you're using an i5 from 2010, then every second, third, and fourth generation i5 supports 32GB. Whether or not your motherboard supports 32GB of memory or if you were mixing memory that wasn't the same is an entirely different question.

[Dranny817]

Unless you're using an i5 from 2010, then every second, third, and fourth generation i5 supports 32GB. Whether or not your motherboard supports 32GB of memory or if you were mixing memory that wasn't the same is an entirely different question.

No MB can have upto 32gb all memory is the same got it in a 4 pack. I checked all that before I tried to install it. not sure how old my Cpu is but thought I got it after 2010. but least I'm able to try and start boxing.

[Dranny817]

One folder for each toon or just one folder for all. is there any difference or reasons for either way .?