KeyClone, Vista x64 and Serious WoW Lag...

[jawn]

I installed keyclone today and tried out duel wow clients on the same box. My latency shot up.. from low 200 (before keyclone runs) to over 1100 when keyclone is active. I tried lowering the priority of the keyclone application but it only lowered it down to just under 1000. Any ideas what is causing this?

My system specs in a nutshell are as follows:

Intel Centrino 2 2.4ghzz
4gig Ram DDR3
Vista x64
1gig Vid Ram

Any help? I love the idea of multiboxing but the lag makes it slow and painful..

[Portal]

I've run Keyclone with 2 WoW instances on one machine and one each on two machines and only had that problem occur once. It was solved by a quick reboot of both systems.

Specifically what happened was I had been mashing my casting keys as fast as I could because I was distracted and not watching my cast bars - my first conclusion was that I must have been broadcasting too many keys too quickly between the two instances of WoW, however I tested the same speed-mashing after the restart and it worked fine. Are you connecting wirelessly? Have you tried cabling in to see if it has any impact? How about exiting keyclone while both instances of WoW are running - does that drop your latency?

[Bollwerk]

I run Keyclone on Vista x64 and have never seen this problem. Strange. I have a Q6600, 8GB of RAM and run 4 instances.

For what it's worth, you don't really need a 64-bit os with 4GB of RAM. But that's a discussion for another time.

[jawn]

I'll try it again here in a bit after good reboot and let ya know.

[Freddie]

For what it's worth, you don't really need a 64-bit os with 4GB of RAM.

On that machine, with its 1 GB video card, 32-bit client Windows couldn't even address 3 GB of ram. I'd say that's an excellent reason to use 64 bit Windows.

[jawn]

it helped alot.. down to 400ms... not the greatest but still ok i guess.. some lag between clients even though on the same machine.

As for my equipment.. 64bit came with the system or i'd be going 32bit honestly.... the vid is a new 9800GTS nVidia 1gig

[Lax]

it helped alot.. down to 400ms... not the greatest but still ok i guess.. some lag between clients even though on the same machine.

This most likely has nothing to do with Keyclone. It's the amount of time it takes for information to get to the WoW server and back to you. There will always be "some lag between clients" because they are not directly communicating, the other client has to get information from the server in order to show where you just moved, for example. Actually, I find it pretty creepy when latency is extremely low, because everyone stays so close to the one I'm playing, and sometimes it makes me think I have broadcasting enabled instead of having them auto-follow. I seriously doubt that Keyclone is the difference between a 400ms and 1100ms ping. It's more likely to be caused by your neighbor downloading too much porn (or the torrents or trojans running on your PC).

As for my equipment.. 64bit came with the system or i'd be going 32bit honestly.... the vid is a new 9800GTS nVidia 1gig

64-bit support is pretty good these days, and it still runs 32-bit applications (WoW, etc) anyway. Any new PC that is capable of 64-bit should probably have a 64-bit operating system. You wouldn't want to downgrade to 16-bit, after all, why 32?