Multiboxing Hardware Science!

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well you are at good effects, and 30 fps max but still the gpu dosnt seem to be stressed to much.

You do drop to 20ish fps when loading a lot of new characters (like when you first run out of the enterence). And it is far from clear if you would get more then 40fps if you were unlimited.

But no matter there seems no lag or stuttering and the game is very playable at anything over 20fps and even down to 10fps, as long as there is no lag or stuttering.

I didn't take into account that your cpu had to do fraps and stuffs so ya the cpu seems more then strong enough for the job and any fps loss is on the gpu I would think.

Ya the switching is excellent, as good as mine. Mine dosn't mess up the screen though but thats nothing. It is really amazing that you are rendering 10 screens at 1920 X 1080. The 9 alts are also at good efffects?

I really don't think I miss anything by not tileing, maybe you drop aoe targeted spells a lot better though, but outside of that the screens are just to small to be really usefull (even considering you put the 9 on another monitor). I would think for 4 though tiled on a seperate monitor you could see a lot more.

Still overall there is no question you can easy 10 box with your system, and that you have the best video card at under $550 for the job. Any more spent would have just given way to small return for the $.

[MiRai]

Well you are at good effects, and 30 fps max but still the gpu dosnt seem to be stressed to much.

You do drop to 20ish fps when loading a lot of new characters (like when you first run out of the enterence). And it is far from clear if you would get more then 40fps if you were unlimited.

But no matter there seems no lag or stuttering and the game is very playable at anything over 20fps and even down to 10fps, as long as there is no lag or stuttering.

I didn't take into account that your cpu had to do fraps and stuffs so ya the cpu seems more then strong enough for the job and any fps loss is on the gpu I would think.

Ya the switching is excellent, as good as mine. Mine dosn't mess up the screen though but thats nothing. It is really amazing that you are rendering 10 screens at 1920 X 1080. The 9 alts are also at good efffects?

I really don't think I miss anything by not tileing, maybe you drop aoe targeted spells a lot better though, but outside of that the screens are just to small to be really usefull (even considering you put the 9 on another monitor). I would think for 4 though tiled on a seperate monitor you could see a lot more.

Still overall there is no question you can easy 10 box with your system, and that you have the best video card at under $550 for the job. Any more spent would have just given way to small return for the $.

Yeah, instead of tweaking the video settings to get the very most out of them I figured it would be easiest to
just leave them at a set standard. The initial loading of all the people in Orgrimmar and Stormwind are always
big hits but everywhere you see the video at a solid 30 FPS I would normally be getting anywhere between 30
and 60 FPS. The slaves are actually capped at 15 FPS so I could even lower those 9 other screens down to 10
and essentially free up 45 FPS of CPU/GPU for even more main window performance.

There is some stuttering from time to time but I believe it's because the VRAM and CPU are completely maxed
and the GPU is having to swap textures around so frequently. If I wasn't using the DWM recording feature, or
even recording at all, the CPU would have much more headroom.

As for swapping, the screen only really gets messed up when I swap at lightning speed. I have a G700 mouse
and it has the ability to switch whether the mouse wheel is completely free spin or whether it's "clicked." I put
it in free spin mode and just spun it as fast as I could so the windows are swapping before they've been fully
re-sized. When I slowed down the swapping it looked much cleaner. Also, to confirm, the slaves are at good
with shadows turned down.