Here we go. Performance harp

[Hachoo]

Your processor and graphics card are fine for 5boxing on one PC (I have a lesser processor and vid card and do just fine).

However yes what everyone else said, 3GB is the minimum to 5 box on 1 PC. 3GB is fine for XP, I am even ok in Shattrath.

Also, a HUGE help for 5boxing is a second hard drive. Put 1-2 accounts on 1 drive, and 3-4 on the other drive. Then find the post about symbolically linking your data/cache directories from all slave accounts to the master account.

Also, find the latency trick post.

With all of that combined you'll be 5 boxing with no issues whatsoever. I have an 8600GT video card and I'm totally fine everywhere except Shatt. In shatt I get some reduced FPS but its still 15 or so and would be faster with an 8800GT. Its still super slow for about 15 seconds after landing but after that it speeds up quite a bit.

[Dorps]

Setting affinity on a quad core can help but I dont know how affective it would be on a dual core, I would just leave it alone and let windows decide for you.

If you open up keyclone and go into setup then command editor you'll see 2 fields called maxfpsbk (how much fps your slaves can go up to) and maxfps (how much fps your main can go up to). Setting maxfps on all wow regions to 30-40 and slaves at 10-15 should help you a TON.

So for Region0-Region4 I need to set maxfps to say 35 and again, Region1-Region4 set maxfpsbk to 10?

I would test without asking but servers are down

also to add, would I be better off using my laptop?

ASUS
Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T5600(1.83ghz)
4g RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9500m GS
Windows Vista 64bit

[Hachoo]

Oh and yes affinity is damn near REQUIRED to successfully 5box on one PC.

With a dual core, set your main and 1 clone on 1 core, and the other 3 clones on the other core.

[wizofid]

I have been 5 boxing on one PC with no graphical lag at all.

Machine specs: Dual core 2.4 GHz CPUS, 4GB memory, Geforce 8800 GTS with 640 MB video mem, 10000 rpm raptor harddrive.

Latest Nvidia driver ( 6.14.11.7813), Directx 9c, Windows XP professional, service pack 3

Because I use Windows XP I am really only getting 2.75 GB of my 4 GB, but the system is performing much better. Damn microsoft.

I took my 5 toons through Stormwind yesterday to get to stockades(they are 25 now) and had no issues whatsoever. Have not tried outland yet.

I use one screen with 1 big window and 4 small windows. I have 2 window installations, one for the main, and one shared by the clones. The video options on the clones are all at minimum settings and sound disabled. have maxfps at 50 and maxbgfps set to 15.

If I run through a lot of zones via flight or running I sometimes get triangles on my graphics screens and after a while the graphics freeze, but thats the same whether I am running 1 or 5. I have basically given up on solving that problem.

[Rudi89]

So for Region0-Region4 I need to set maxfps to say 35 and again, Region1-Region4 set maxfpsbk to 10?

I would test without asking but servers are down

also to add, would I be better off using my laptop?

I set my main region to 40FPS and the alt regions to 10FPS. If you have a second computer available you can buy another instance of Keyclone and run the 5 toons spread across both computers (assuming you have a, uh, LAN at home). I was doing this for a while before I figured out the Maximizer setup and all (4 alt toons on one box, the 1 main toon on the other).

If I run through a lot of zones via flight or running I sometimes get triangles on my graphics screens and after a while the graphics freeze, but thats the same whether I am running 1 or 5. I have basically given up on solving that problem.

That sounds like your video card may be overheating.

[wizofid]

On the overheating... Well RivaTuner is showing it running quite cool. But I will double check.

[Jelatin]

Oh and yes affinity is damn near REQUIRED to successfully 5box on one PC.

With a dual core, set your main and 1 clone on 1 core, and the other 3 clones on the other core.

Can anyone else verify this? Im thinking i might set my affinity if more people suggest. I do ok right now