Me: I am having a massive drop in performance when running IS instead of Keyclone. I have been a keyclone user and box 4 sometimes 5 instances of wow on my main box with little problems. I have been attempting to use IS again (used it long ago with ISXWOW and whatnot) because of some of the features I like more than keyclone. When I use IS however I am having severe performance issues to where it is virtually unplayable. Is this common or is something just wrong possibly? Just curious if there is a reason IS would require more resources than Keyclone.
Lax: I assume you're using a window layout with swapping enabled. What you are noticing is that with Inner Space, all windows run at the full resolution. With KeyClone and Maxicrapper, the smaller windows run at a smaller resolution. The tradeoff is that swapping is instantaneous for IS, whereas it is slow as molasses for KeyClone. If you didn't want swapping, you could un-check the box in ISBoxer, and all windows would be considered a "main" window, and run at the given size. But, if I had to guess just based on what you're saying about unplayable, I would guess that you have a resolution in WoW with multisampling higher than 1x. Make sure that's not the case. As described on the ISBoxer page:
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Slow performance can be expected when running multiple sessions on one PC if the "multisample" setting is higher than 1x. To improve performance, find the Multisampling drop-down in the World of Warcraft video options (click Resolution on the left, and the Multisampling box will be in the upper right), and select an option that includes 1x multisample (for example, 24-bit color 24-bit depth 1x multisample).
Lax: Then you really want to play with PERFORMANCE video settings rather than QUALITY. All of my video settings are as low as they can go, except for the view distance on my first session. Hope this helps.
