Guess what, a random newbie question.

[Raekluder]

Well, First of all Hi,

That being taken care of, lets move to my oh so funny questions.
Ever since the first time i heard about multiboxing i have been wanting to try it out. But iam no wonderchild when it comes to config and such.

Anyways, was just gonna try to get Dual boxin up and running, and been reading several guides and FaQs and Wowwiki. BUT
Iam stuck at the first and perhaps easiest part, Getting 2 copies of wow to run at 1 PC

After reading all those guides i thought that my pc would easily take on 2x Wow at the same time, but i get insane low FPS and random laggspikes.
Did what most told me to, Copy the folder and rename it.
And my speccs for my pc is the following:

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz (2 Cpus)
2GB Ram (2x1GB)
Geforce 8800GT 512mb
Western Digital 500gb S-ata Harddrive
Windows XP Pro

And it makes me go nuts.. cant get decent stability and average fps.
It is some of the videoconfigs in wow that i should disable to get better gameplay?

Anyways, this post is starting to turn rather messy, so ill just leave it and hope for some or well anykind of answer.
Will gladly look forward for help.

//Raek

[Khazrael]

Are you using two monitors, with your wow instances spread across the two?

[Eteocles]

Try running both windows out of the same folder instead of a copied 2nd folder; my system can't touch yours and I run 3 just fine lol

Try turning off 4xaa or other silly eye candy options that destory performance just so that orc's face is a little less jagged(not like you're staring at him that close anyways...at least I hope not :p lol); running multiple dirs without symbolic links or whatever they're called adds more strain to loading than running from the same dir does where the cache is shared. Turn off shadows, grass/clutter textures in wow options, neither one is necessary, then make sure yer drivers aren't too badly outdate(I doubt they are or that it'll matter much since it's an 8800 gt but throwing it out there anyways), and disable any extra stuff in the background you don't need, torrents, extra messengers you don't actively use, anything thats running that isn't necessary really.

I run bare-bones windows programs, mirc, and my WoWs, all windowed-fullscreen at 1280x1024 with medium to max graphic options and limit my background WoWs' fps to 20(type /console maxfpsbk 20) and front window gets my max fps of 64ish constantly +30-40ms(with the Nagle Algorithm MANUALLY disabled via registry(I can link you to this when I get home if yer interested); 100-200ms without)

And yes, Khaz brings a good point, are you using 1 monitor, two? Horizontal span or dualview or what? Vista or XP? There's a specific combo that works poorly and produces worse fps(I think xp and non-horizontal span setups but not sure)

[Raekluder]

Wow, alot and fast answers..
Well, i only use one monitor, so i just tried to start both copies of wow,

Haha, after killing all videosettings on the alt i got 200ms on that one and constant 60ms in outland on main, Still got all the goodie settings left on main. so.
Thx alot, Now to get all the other things working ^^