Quote Originally Posted by 'alcattle',index.php?page=Thread&postID=186910#pos t186910
I have my first 5 toon team up and running. Or should I say walking? People talk about getting lag in Dalaran, I get it in Stormwind. BAD slideshow slow. I know I need RAM as the Gadget is redlined. Does the RAM affect the updates or am I looking at a GPU upgrade? I am running a 8800 GTS 320. So what 2-3 year old now? 2 monitors are no problem and running in the forest works fine. Thanks for any advice.
I'm running the same card and my performance is pretty good in all but Dalaran (or of course Wintergrasp). I run 5 instances on one PC with keyclone.

Among the various things I've doneto try to tweak performance was adding another 8800 GTS to run my second monitor. I saw no difference in performance to speak of.

I would look to your I/O, memory, and CPU first if you're getting lag that bad.

Also, no matter what, you will need to drop your video settings on your 4 slaves, esp. the maxfpsbk setting. We really need more details about your system setup and what you've done to optimize things.

For running 5 instances on a single PC, my opinion is you really need 8 gigs RAM. Or at the minimum a 64 bit OS (XP x64 or Vista) that utilizes a full 4 Ggb. I'm on a quad-core CPU as well, though an older one.