Newbie... can my rig run and more..

[Clone]

Try looking at performance monitor to see what you are stalling on, be it processor or memory. If it turns out to be processor you could try overclocking. If its memory which I suspect it might be then you will need to buy some more ram which isnt that expensive.

[Tovya]

Wow, replies first thing in the morning! Thank you guys. I'll start from the top:

@Ugh - If I understand you correctly about the first part, you're setting the max fps (frames per second) of the "master" at 40 and the "slaves" at 10-15, yes? However, I never knew there was a way to do that. =( [after searching google, I see they added the /console maxfpsbk and /console maxfps commands to the game in patch 2.1, thanks for pointing me in the right direction!] I had no clue you could actually set what your fps was. Normally, when running just one client I get around 65 fps out in the world and about 20-30 in Dalaran, but wouldn't 15fps make the slaves lose follow or would it really not effect performance too much out in the world? My settings in my NVIDIA panel were:

• Anisotropic filtering = ON
• Antialiasing (Gamma correction / Mode / Transparency) = ON / OFF / OFF
• Multi-displaly/mixed-GPU acceleration = Multiple display performance mode
• Texture filtering - Quality = QUALITY

However, all are now set to how you specified. I've been running the in-game clients at 1024x768 because of my extreme custom UI (79 addons... had 109 but I cut back a little lol) I needed space, but I think for the dual boxing I'll just cut back to the barebones addons I need and leave the full custom for my default WoW folder. Thank you! I'll post back when I've tested it out!!

@Ualaa - Well, I had thought about going for the 64-bit XP Pro, but again financials got in the way. Because I already had XP Home from previous computer, I just installed that. I'll be getting W7 Professional soon hopefully. Without cracking open my case, I believe I have 3 slots, but because I'm not using a 64-bit OS, I have (from my Belarc Advisor printout):

3072 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM2' has 2048 MB

Which I could buy another 2G stick to replace my 1G stick and run with 4G total; that would leave me a way to dole out 1GB of RAM per OS/Client. I'll look into how to do that, thank you. Of course you can RAF to yourself...*facepalm* I never even thought about that lol. I've already got 3 accounts, simply because I originally started the old fashioned 2boxing with EQ waaaay back in the day (2boxing litterally meaning 2 'boxes' with a monitor/keyboard/mouse per each box). RAF to yourself makes sense, this way you just load up another client and run with it in newbie ville for 14 days... hopefully these settings will help. Thanks! =)

@Clone - I hadn't even thought about a preformance monitor. I've got so much !&$% on this computer that adding anything to it makes me cringe lol. That is a good suggestion though and will definitely help me figure out where I'm lacking in my rig, thanks!

[Tovya]

Try looking at performance monitor to see what you are stalling on, be it processor or memory. If it turns out to be processor you could try overclocking. If its memory which I suspect it might be then you will need to buy some more ram which isnt that expensive.

Clone, I'm using the default XP Performance Monitor (Control Panel > Admin Tools > Performance Monitor). I've never looked at this before, but I'm assuming that for the memory and processor lines, I want them to be as high as possible? Not sure what to look for to judge what is stalling where. ;-)