Simean
07-03-2008, 10:12 PM
Hey guys, first post here. First I must say what an excellent site!
Second, I have been diligently reading all the guides here on the site before deciding to ask any questions that would appear to be redundant. I have no experience of multi-boxing except for being curious the other day, when I decided to open two instances of Wow, one is my wife's toon. She needed some low lvl gear so I ran her through some instances. Basically, all I did was alt tab then set her on autofollow, then alt tab back to my main. Then I thought, there has to be a better way. Long story short I ended up here at this great site.
One thing I noticed was she would not stay on follow. She would lag behind almost always. I began to wonder if it was because her instance of the game was minimized therefore less resources were going to that program resulting in lag.
My current pc specs are old (athlon64 3000+) and my framerate with the second instance was low. I will be building a new computer to play both WoW and WAR and would like to multi-instance. So my questions are two-fold.
1) To multi-instance effectively do you recommend quad core cpu's? So you can allocate each instance to a specific core?
2) Do the toons on autofollow lag behind because they are just another instance running on the same machine as your main and to increase connectivity one would have to have the other instances running on a separate machine?
The reason I ask is because it will be more convenient for me to have just multiple instances instead of multiple pc's. I do have two pc's but one is my wife's which can run wow easily but my computer desk is behind hers (basically I can't see her monitor). Therefore I didn't think it would be a viable option to stand up and walk around and peer over to see her monitor just to check on my other toon. I would only include her computer if it is the only way to avoid the lag which I mentioned earlier. I want to clarify if other multi-instancing folks have any lag problems. I run DSL and split the connection via router. My ping in most FPS games are around 40-90 and 150ish in WoW, depending on server.
side note:
I have a total of three monitors at my disposal, so I may set one up solely for this purpose.
I only plan to dual-instance at first until I get the handle of things.
Second, I have been diligently reading all the guides here on the site before deciding to ask any questions that would appear to be redundant. I have no experience of multi-boxing except for being curious the other day, when I decided to open two instances of Wow, one is my wife's toon. She needed some low lvl gear so I ran her through some instances. Basically, all I did was alt tab then set her on autofollow, then alt tab back to my main. Then I thought, there has to be a better way. Long story short I ended up here at this great site.
One thing I noticed was she would not stay on follow. She would lag behind almost always. I began to wonder if it was because her instance of the game was minimized therefore less resources were going to that program resulting in lag.
My current pc specs are old (athlon64 3000+) and my framerate with the second instance was low. I will be building a new computer to play both WoW and WAR and would like to multi-instance. So my questions are two-fold.
1) To multi-instance effectively do you recommend quad core cpu's? So you can allocate each instance to a specific core?
2) Do the toons on autofollow lag behind because they are just another instance running on the same machine as your main and to increase connectivity one would have to have the other instances running on a separate machine?
The reason I ask is because it will be more convenient for me to have just multiple instances instead of multiple pc's. I do have two pc's but one is my wife's which can run wow easily but my computer desk is behind hers (basically I can't see her monitor). Therefore I didn't think it would be a viable option to stand up and walk around and peer over to see her monitor just to check on my other toon. I would only include her computer if it is the only way to avoid the lag which I mentioned earlier. I want to clarify if other multi-instancing folks have any lag problems. I run DSL and split the connection via router. My ping in most FPS games are around 40-90 and 150ish in WoW, depending on server.
side note:
I have a total of three monitors at my disposal, so I may set one up solely for this purpose.
I only plan to dual-instance at first until I get the handle of things.