Boxing on a Mac- The Whats, the Hows and the Whos

[MultiMacBox23]

I really don't know, or wouldn't know, but I can say with some confidence that the program sends keystrokes a lot better when you have the system devoting an equal amount of work to each window. Any thoughts? This may explain why someone thought that Clonedkeys was not sending keystrokes as well as I thought it was.

Being that OSX is a *nix based operating system, I looked into a "re-nicer" program. this would allow you to modify the core unix priority levels for a process. I set clonekey at max priority, but it didnt make a difference.
(Duh..... during spikes i barely hit 45% average core usage)

Talking with the author of keywire, i recall him saying that after sending a keystroke to a window, the system would return a "operation completed" message. On the keystrokes that got dropped it still received the "operation complete" message from the system. I could possibly be a limitation or glitch in the OS, and that he would have to devise some sort of work around.

I'm currently at a crossroad personally.

1) make the mac pro my main, and build 4 more "hack-in-toshes" to each run a slave on their own 20"-er, just run the 30's on the macpro, and go hardware

2) bootcamp it, with vista ultimate 64 (yah yah i know.....Eeeewwwwwwww) and keyclone it. pull out a 8800gt and replace it with a GTX280 for use in bootcamp.
i've asked a few boxers on my realm and they use it and dont have a spam-lag on the key

3) gear up my 2 oldest accounts, and retire 3..... move back to dualboxing a pocket healer.

4) suck it up and quit bitchin

[Vix]

Well as I'm using Butler i don't have any problems giving commands to all the clients. Its hell to sett up but once up and running it works nicely! But i have to admit that i haven't played that much yet. Probably have around 15 hours now, but it has been smooth running all the way. Obviously it does not like spamming the keys, but that's ok.



I run all applications from different directories and with different graphics settings.

[Fef]

Looks like you are bootcamping, or am i missing something?

I am.
As much as I would like to completely stay away from Windows I could not run the game the way I run it without a good PiP (Picture in Picture) feature.
I don't want to use more than one screen, and I want to see all my characters all the time. So I ended up with this thumbnail scheme that works great for me. The alts are not playable as such, but I can do some basic steering (if a follow breaks, or to position them individually before an instance fight) or interact with NPCs very easily. Also, just one key press and an alt can become master and focus of the group, and be popped to the big picture.

[hertome]

Hi everyone,



im quad-boxing on a mac pro 1 x quadcore, 8GB Ram, 8800 GT

Im playing on very low details with all toon, as i get serious graphiclag turning details on. I have 4 seperate folders.

Running around in shatt my cores all to maxed out 100%. My Ram usage never goes above 6 GB.

Would it help to add a second processor, do play on higher details? i really like the new wotlk armor, it looks

way better then the oldworld stuff but i can see it quad boxing, also my view distance is turned down to min.



Thans in advance for any suggestions,



greetings Hertome



P.S. Sorry for my english, its not my native language

[Fef]

You should get better results than that.
Give us more details, what size/resolution are you four windows, do you play on one or two screens, do you limit the number of frames per seconds for windows that are in the background, did you reduce shadow quality, did you remove high level anisotropic filtering, ...

[hertome]

I use one 22" and one 24".

3 Chars in 800x600 on the 22" and the main char in 1900x1200 on the 24" all in Windowed mode.

I have lowered ALL sliders within WoW to low and disabled all shadows and such. Also the gloom effect and so on.

Everything i sturned off.

Limit Background FPS? i dont think, dont know how to do it.



Greeting Hertome

[Vix]

I'm running the stock 256 Mb card so with a 8800 you should have no problem running your main with alot of graphics turned on! I notised that if i turn up the sampling i tend to get really wired looking graphical problems. (the graphics go bana with loads of clutter and FPS drop to 2 or so. Unplayable!) So i have to keep sampling down to 1x samling and 24 bit if i remember correctly.

And i also only have 4 cores!

vix

[Vix]

Hi everyone,



im quad-boxing on a mac pro 1 x quadcore, 8GB Ram, 8800 GT

Would it help to add a second processor, do play on higher details? i really like the new wotlk armor, it looks

I guess you are running the same machine as i am. If so you have two prosessors already in your Mac. But they are both Dual cores (Intel Xenon 5100 Series "Woodcrest" 2.0, 2.66 or 3.0 GHz) If not you are running a very custom ride

[Fef]

Limit Background FPS? i dont think, dont know how to do it.

I am not at home now, so I cannot check, but there is something along the line of :

/console MaxFPS 30
(This will limit the number of frames per second on your WoW window to 30 when it is active.)
/console MaxFPSbk 10
(This will limit the number of FPS even further when the windows is not active or in the background.)

My 4 thumbnail-sized slave windows run with MaxFPSbk set on 5, it is only at that price I can get 30 FPS on my main almost all the time

[hertome]

Hi again,



i have 1 Quad Core Processor build in, so there is space for a second one 8).



If i limit the backgroundfps, will there still be able to follow an such? i really dont understand the usage of this

command, for me it looks like they not getting enough fps to get a follow work or a fight done.

Ok i feel like a newb now 8)

is there a line in the "ini" i can change for the fps?



Thank you all for your help.



Greetings Hertome



P.S. Which one is "faster" symlink install or 4 sep. folders on the same harddrive?