Better performance?

[Anhava]

Hello,

I started 4-boxing a while ago with 4 shammies on 1 computer. My fps is around 20-45 / window and sometimes 8 / window... is here any guide how to get better performance?

Ty.

[Khatovar]

What are your system specs? What are you using to multibox?

[Anhava]

790i Ultra Motherboard

4Gb OCZ DDR3 Ram

Q6700 2.67Ghz

XFX 285 GTX 1Gb GDDR3

Win Vista

Im using keyclone.

[Khatovar]

Have you gone into keyclone and set the max background frames per second? The slave windows shouldn't need more than a max of 15 FPS and it should help stabalize the framerate on the main window.

Also, turning the graphics way down in the slaves should help. Kill sound and shadows, as those can eat up a lot of resources.

Aero in Vista is a source for contention. Personally, my games ran like crap with Aero off, however, other people saw great increases with WoW when they disabled Aero.

Mods can also be a drain on the system. Questhelper was notorius for a while for it for some people.

Are you Symlinked, running from one folder or multiple folders? That can impact your performance. I can't walk you through that as I've never symlinked, but you should be able to search for it and find a few nice walkthroughs here.

Edit - also, never underestimate the power of a good clean and defrag.

[keyclone]

howdy Anhava,

i think khatovar probably hit the major items for performance improvements. one thing i would ask... when your performance drops, is it when you first come into a new area? if so, that is related to disk performance as your wows try to pull the new data from the drives.

one thing that can impact this is having one wow folder per account. by doing it this way, you actually defeat the purpose of disk cache and end up having the worst performance possible, as each file is a physically different file and requires a disk read.

one thing that does improve performance is a high disk cache. 32m is much better then 8m as your wows pull the same file as they enter the same area. the first wow will pull the various data... and the 2nd - 5th will actually pull the data from the cache, radically improving retrieval times (hopefully... if it's still in the cache.. bigger cache improves the chance).

although i have never used it, i think symlinking would have a similar effect by caching in system memory disk requests.

if you are still having issues, please let me know and i'll see what i can do.

good luck and have a great weekend,

Rob

[d0z3rr]

Have you gone into keyclone and set the max background frames per second? The slave windows shouldn't need more than a max of 15 FPS and it should help stabalize the framerate on the main window.

Also, turning the graphics way down in the slaves should help. Kill sound and shadows, as those can eat up a lot of resources.

Aero in Vista is a source for contention. Personally, my games ran like crap with Aero off, however, other people saw great increases with WoW when they disabled Aero.

Mods can also be a drain on the system. Questhelper was notorius for a while for it for some people.

Are you Symlinked, running from one folder or multiple folders? That can impact your performance. I can't walk you through that as I've never symlinked, but you should be able to search for it and find a few nice walkthroughs here.

Edit - also, never underestimate the power of a good clean and defrag.

Good tips here.

Other thing would be to turn the view distance and antialiasing all the way down on your slaves. And only use the bare minimum addons on them too.

With your system specs you should be around 60fps on your main client in a zone. In a big city don't be surprised if it dips down to 15fps.

Symbolic links are a must!

[wowphreak]

Look into disabling things in vista to free up memory.

Are yeh running anything else in the background?

reduce the graphics resolution.