Quote Originally Posted by 'Gares',index.php?page=Thread&postID=125274#post12 5274
If I do run 4 accounts however sometimes they will all be good and sometimes one will not.

I have run a tracert while I've had them open and sometimes but not all the time I have a high latency packet along the hop. Its always just one and if I do the tracert again its not there, and then if I retest again it sometimes pops up again. So I am really at a loss with this one.
Do I understand correctly that we're talking about two separate problems here? The first one is the red-connection problem which is always apparent with five and sometimes apparent with four? And the main-FPS problem which (as Ugh said) is probably a foreground/background issue?

If I've got that straight, then for diagnostic purposes, I would suggest figuring out what's distinctive about the one window that shows a red connection. Is it always the last one you loaded? Is it always the one assigned to a particular CPU? Etc. Also, can you do anything that changes which window is the red one? Once you know the cause you will probably also know the solution.

Also, for diagnostic purposes, you could reassign affinities so all clients are enabled to run on all CPUs. This gives the operating system's thread scheduler maximum leeway to optimize. If the problem still occurs I would raise the thread priority to high for the red client and see if that helps -- if it does, you'll know it's a thread scheduling issue.