Grr... 5 WoW loading issue
Hey everyone,
Yesterday I decided to fire up one of my WoW teams again to fiddle around with multiboxing since I've been playing solo since 3.3. What I noticed is that when I had everything up and running, my computer seems like it can no longer handle 5 instances of WoW. I'm using Keyclone for my tool, and when I load them up through the application, everything loads seamlessly. After seeing the 5 copies of WoW across my two monitors, I then am able to enter in my logins /authenticator codes/ etc and be brought to the character select screen. Once on the character select screen, everything seems to be stable. I'm using about 3 GB of my 12 GB total available during that time. When I hit enter to log all of my characters into the game 4 of them load up perfectly, but the fifth one seems to slow me down. In fact, my computer begins to crawl and stops responding during the loading of the 5th character.
Initially I thought that it may be an issue with loading the toons up through the keyclone tool, so what I did was load up 5 different WoW's in independent windows, through the regular launcher. Same issue happened once the 5th instance was up and I got into the game. When I close down 1 instance, my computer speeds up, and when I close down 2, it feels great - my computer loves three instances of WoW now, but hates anything else.
I also tried turning off all of the add-on mods that I was running, just to be sure that it wasn't an add-on that was causing the hiccup. The other fix I tried was setting all of my WoW's except for the master down to "Good" for graphics quality (down from Ultra). Unfortunately, neither of these fixes helped.
A final fix that I attempted was to make a copy of the WoW folder and try running the game (as if that may make a difference?) It didn't seem to remedy the problem either.
The computer I'm running is decent too, I'm currently using an i7, 12 GBs RAM, 280 GTX OC Nvidia card, Solid State Drive for WoW (nothing else on that drive), and Windows 7 as my Operating System.
I'm not sure what to make of this, although I may try downloading some new drivers for my video card. I used to be able to run at least 9 copies of WoW without any issues on this same computer (nothing has changed as far as system specs go). As I haven't boxxed in the past 6 months, I'm not sure exactly what I need to be looking at. Is there a setting that I missed? Has anyone else experienced this issue?
Thanks!
