Disconnecting and Following Problems

[Randon]

I'm having a couple of problems that I was wondering if anybody knew about. I just started dual-boxing tonight, just using two toons, on the same computer. The problem I'm having is that half the time when I use a /follow command from my slave, my slave will run around in all sorts of directions before sticking to my main. If I alt-tab to my 2nd WoW instance though, my slave will instantly run to my main. And also, my second account (just made an hour or two ago) gets disconnected very often. Anybody know what I should try to fix either or both of these problems? Thanks for your time.

[Lorune]

dont run full screen.

Set the instances of wow to windowed and tick the maximized

[Prepared]

dont run full screen.

Set the instances of wow to windowed and tick the maximized

Also turn down all graphics options in your wow game and see if that will make a difference. If you have all of the graphics set at defaults, you may be stressing your video card with two copies running. I found that if I turned down all graphics options, I could run 4 copies of the game on my desktop computer without any /follow or video lag issues.

[Randon]

I'm running an AMD Athlon X2 3.0GHz, GeForece 8600GT 512MB, 2GB Dual Channel Ram. Both of my instances of WoW are windowed, and I don't get poor FPS on either window. Here's a question though, if I turn the graphic settings down on one window, won't that make my settings for WoW turned down from then on, when I open new instances of WoW?

Thanks for your time guys, and input!

[Jamien]

I'm running an AMD Athlon X2 3.0GHz, GeForece 8600GT 512MB, 2GB Dual Channel Ram. Both of my instances of WoW are windowed, and I don't get poor FPS on either window. Here's a question though, if I turn the graphic settings down on one window, won't that make my settings for WoW turned down from then on, when I open new instances of WoW?

Thanks for your time guys, and input!

Most likely yes.
I used to have the one wow folder and would have to keep changing the settings for my main and my slaves.

Easy solution - Make a separate wow folder for your slaves. Any graphics settings set then will only affect slaves!

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And with the description of the problem above, it sounds like a lag issue.
WoW doesn't take much in regards to upload/download speed, but I've noticed if my ping is bad on my main (bad for me is 400+) then my slaves will look very jumpy while they are on follow, but appear to be following perfectly fine on their screen.