System and Graphics Settings For Dual Boxing

Hi All,

I currently have.

Windows Vista
Intel Duo Core 6300 @ 1.86 Ghz
2 GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce 7300 GS - The core clock is 550MHz, DDR2, which is clocked at 800MHz, with 128MB upto 512 with turbo cache.
FSB 941 Mhz
GPU core (2d/3d) 550 mhz
GPU Memory speed 810 mhz

I run WOW really well with 1 account on this pc with great FPS but as soon as I try to Dual Box either with 2 copies or 1 copy of wow my FPS drops to about 10-15 FPS which is hard to handle.

Can my system handle 2 WOW running for dual boxing with better FPS. Any adjustments that I should be looking to make suggestions would be great.

Full system details can be found on: http://support.thetechguys.com/layout.aspx?ID={7940bd7e-a815-479a-8425-a5a6749f3b7a}&CatID={7ce235ea-0a71-404f-bb03-e1fee0890ae1}

Thanks for your help!!

ok, that doesn't make much sense. that box is a beast and should easily run 3 wows at 25 fps... unless... does it have shared or dedicated graphics memory?

if its shared, there's your problem.

if dedicated, i dunno. make sure you don't have tons of other apps running.

Im not totally tech minded im affraid but how do i check that?

vista really does kill your FPS though,

I used to have a much slower pc,
running about

dual core 1.8
Nvidia 7600
2 GB of RAM

and i would get about 70-100 fps on WoW generally.

now im using this:

Q6600
4 GB RAM
Nvidia 8800GT

and i only get about 60-90 and when im lucky 100+ fps in WoW, while running only 1 game.


its the same thing with other games ive played,


You might just want to do a dual boot of XP on your pc if you want better gfx. The Vista drivers arnt very good yet.. hopefully they will be fixed with SP1

Make sure your sound is turned off on the other windows as that will slow your system down quite a bit.

Well, I have a machine slightly better than yours. At least my graphics card is 8800GT. However, it's never been successful for me to run 5 copies of WoW, either in same or different directories, smoothly without 'hiccups.'

Of course, I tried to figure out why. First, I changed all to 800 x 600, no use. Then, I turned sound off on all of them, no improvement. I set all graphics settings to min, low or off, no improvement again. Then guess what, I use 0 addons on any copy and the FPS increased!!!

But hey, how can I use no addon?

Atm, I used 3 to 4 addons on the toons. One is inventory (that combines bags), another is for the actionbar, another is autoaccept invites/quests, and the last one is ug_frame UI.

I plan to remove the bags addon once they reach 70 though: toons wont need to pick up that many things in instances. The autoaccept addon can be removed as well since there wont be many quests to share at that time. At that time also, I should use some addon to trace and broadcast warlocks' DoTs.

I minimize the 4 toons and use the main window in 1480 res.

I am using XP btw.