I finally got a system for multiboxing (used an old 2GB laptop 1-70 on both teams). Although it's a massive improvement, the performance is still not as good as I had hoped. I tested things out with a single client and with full settings I can't get much better than abotu 30fps. Without shadows and a few other settings toned done, I get 40-50 fps, which is still pretty bad.

I have been running all 5 clients with graphics settings on about half. Main client frame rate fluctuates between 20-40 fps. Shattrath isn't bad, but I was under the impression that's more a RAM/HD issue than video card.

Here's the specs:

Intel Quad Core 2.4Ghz
8GB RAM
ATI Radeon 3650 HD 512MB
22" LCD on DVI, 19" LCD on VGA
640GB SATA @ 7200rpm
Vista SP1 64-bit


I tried turning off the vista theme, and I run the slaves at about 10fps in the background. Video card is using latest drivers from the ATI site. I swear I got a better fps on my laptop with an Nvidia 7900 GS when running a single clien. Could it be a issue with video RAM? I have the option to allocate up to 3GB for the video card from the main RAM.