WOW retail; Low framerate/stutter even on potato settings.

Hey, my goal is to find out if I need to update my hardware or if I can try some tweaking in order to get this to work. I know it is most likely the first and most expensive that is gonna be the solution.

I started multiboxing mid BFA with 4 druids and the game ran fine on mediumish settings. Then I jumped over to classic and started to 5 box, it went just fine on medium settings there as well.

However I started 5 boxing again in this prepatch and I am struggeling alot with low framerate,stutter and long wait times at times.

I've dropped the settings on 4 of the "slaves" down to 1 on the in game scale, with vsync DISABLED, I've also put the resolution to 1920x1080 but then dropped it down to 61%.

On the master/driver I am running 1920x1080 and I cannot feel a difference between 1-5 on the in game scale, with most things in the advanced menu at the lowest/disabled. Running all 5 characters on dx11 legacy, I have tried dx12 as well.
I've tried to disable avast (antivirus), battlenet, etc. ofc I am not having any webrowser running at the same time.

One thing I though of now that I have no idea if it will make any difference is having the 4 slaves on my second monitor would help? Someone wise has to answer that for me.


pcspecs

i5 3570k
16gb ram
1080
SSD for both wow and windows.

If you open up task manager, does it show if cpu / memory / gpu / or disk is maxing out at 100% or close to it?

CPU and memory is 90%+ and gpu is around 15-35%. Disk is 2%

I kinda knew this was the case but my real question is, is it anything else I can tweak in order for this to work?

Cpu / ram at 90%++ ..... = time to upgrade those.

5boxing = have 32gb ram

Cpu wise, try have 2 cores and 2 threads assigned to each game and 2 cores / 2 threads unassigned (for the OS). So, a 12 core/24 threads cpu would be very nice for a 5man).

Also:
http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/52701

Update the OS... gpu drivers.... innerspace.... isboxer.... motherboard

Also can try to run with 0 addons and see if that makes any difference.
you can further reduce the video quality settings of the additional accounts by using the
/console set render scale 1 and replacing the 1 with a 0.1 to 0.9. It’ll look terrible but drops the settings down a ton. Put it back to 1 to bring it back to normal.