Two boxing lag?

I'm sure this question gets asked a lot so sorry, but a quick scan didn't find anything.



When I try to run two wow accounts on my computer the account not being maximized gets weird lag-related effects. If I set it to /follow it will randomly warp around, either falling behind and losing follow or warping 20 yards forward when I stop the main character, which makes even just running a low level character behind your main to run through an instance impossible since the low level will warp ahead and get killed more or less every pull.

What exactly is causing this lag? I assume it is video related - is it that my computer (2 gig mobile processor, 1 gig ram, so-so vid card) is simply not capable of running two windows at once and thus prioritizes the top one to the detriment of the bottom one? Is there some way to get windows to apply equal priority to both instances, even when one is minimized and the other maximized?



Thanks.

Quick question for you: Are you using any software to control both toons or just alt tabbing between windows?

What I think is happening is that the one in the background is minimized meaning that your computer allocates a lot less resources to it. This would lead to lag (so the position of your second character on the fiurst screen isn't where the second character actually is) and also alt tabbing seems to break follow sometimes.

I'd suggest trying to run both in windowed mode, so you can have your main screen at the front, but your second screen won't actually be minimized (and so should get more resources going it's way).