hardware advice please

[vinny_germany]

Good day all

*Been coming here for a while and getting good advice on using [s]Keyclone[/s] sorry i'm using AutoHotkeys
I've been triple boxing for a while now cause got bored of questing alone.

Got one team of mages to lvl 35 and now doing a team of shamys cause more fun they hit 49 yesterday.
Since a few days i've been trying to use 2 screens cause I multibox on one PC.

My setup is :

board : Asus P5Q
CPU: Q6600 Core 2 Quad
RAM: 4 GB
Graphic card : Geforce 9600GT -> just changed to a Gainward GTX275
Hard disk : 75GB 10k raptor

Windows Vista 64 bit professional

Screen 1 : Samsung 22" 16/9
Screen 2 : Samsung 19" 4/3

I am running the main account on the 22" and the other 2 on the 19"

I was running my 9600GT until today cause I was having some lag issues and poor fps and all windows. I just bought a GTX275 but I must say I dont see much of a difference if any.
It's playable but by no means what I would have hoped from upgrading the card. At best I get 60 fps on the main and about 30 on the other 2.

Is it the CPU my problem :S

any help advise would be greatly appreciated

regards
Vincent

Magevinnya , Magevinnyb , Magevinnyc
Vinnyshaman , Vinnyshamanb , Vinnyshamanc

[wowphreak]

Wow isnt very graphic intensive. upgrading your grpahics card is the last thing yeh should do for wow.

Might want to reduce some of yer graphics settings
Kill the shadows affects reduce the view range.

Did yeh set maxfps and maxfpsbk?
Did yeh set affinity?

Might also want to check and see how much memory yeh have left when yer running all yer accounts, vista require a considerable amount of memory just to run by itself.

[alcattle]

My guess is RAM also. You are running V64 so getting 2 more sticks of RAM won't be too bad. If the MB is full.... then it would be 4 sticks x 2 gigs ;(

[Sajuuk]

Have you tried tweaking the processor affinity for your WoWs within keyclone? How about capping the slave FPS at...say...20FPS?

Say, Client one using cores 1/2, client two using 3/4, and client three using 2/3? (Something similar to that)


By the way...looking to get rid of that 9600GT?

[vinny_germany]

thanks for the replies guys.

Should I stick to my 9600GT then (the GTX is on loan from shop)

I think I'll try to get some Ram then, i'll have to switch to 2MB or 4MB modules cause board full.

Dont use keyclone I use autohotkeys (sorry my mistake) is keyclone better then ? Can it run together with Autohotkeys ?

I must say I never touched the settings in WoW so will try that today.

I dont know how to set "maxfps and maxfpsbk" and "affinity" are those graphic card settings ?

sorry for the dum questions but I never really fiddle around with settings normally.

[alcattle]

Looking on the web, I think you have 4 slots (yellow and black?) so 4 gigs would be 4 x 1 gig RAM. You will need 4 x 2 gig sticks.

I would upgrade the RAM with the old card, it is as good or better than my 8800 GTS 320.

Keyclone and AHK do the same basic things, keep what is working.

Max/Min are WOW graphic settings, Affinty is the CPU setting.

Give that a shot

[vinny_germany]

on my P5Q i have 4 slots.
according to the book I can run up to 16GB due to chipset limitations. Since I can exchange the Graphic card I want to get 4x 4GB DDR2 - 667 (PC2 - 5300)
Does it make sense to run 16 rather than 8 ?
I could run 8 and put the difference towards a new CPU but i'm not sure that makes sense right now ?
The biggest CPU I can put on my board is the : Core 2 Quad Q9650(rev.E0,3.00GHz,1333FSB,L2:12MB)
dont think the P4, or Pentium D CPUs are better than the Core 2 Quad ?

[Sajuuk]

thanks for the replies guys.

Should I stick to my 9600GT then (the GTX is on loan from shop)

I think I'll try to get some Ram then, i'll have to switch to 2MB or 4MB modules cause board full.

Dont use keyclone I use autohotkeys (sorry my mistake) is keyclone better then ? Can it run together with Autohotkeys ?

I must say I never touched the settings in WoW so will try that today.

I dont know how to set "maxfps and maxfpsbk" and "affinity" are those graphic card settings ?

sorry for the dum questions but I never really fiddle around with settings normally.

While in game, type /console maxfpsbk 20 into your slave's windows. (This will throttle down their performance in the background)
For processor affinity, there's a chart floating around that will help you. To change this while wow is not running, you'll have to edit your config.WTF files for each client (if you're using that) Otherwise you could hit Ctrl+alt+del and set your processor affinity by right clicking the wow process and changing it there. (You'll have to do this every time you start wow)

And keyclone is great! You should give it a whirl. Only twenty dollars, handles CPU affinity and throttling background client performance very well.

[gitcho]

what's the multisampling set to for each instance? I've got a core i7 920 with 12GB of fast ram, 30GB SSD (dedicated for wow), Asus 4850 and I was getting really crappy fps (5-7 in cities). I changed the video rez to 1x multisampling (down from 4x) on all my windows and reduced the view distance on all but my main and my FPS instantly shot up to 25-30 in dalaran and 60 everywhere else. just a thought ...

[Owltoid]

I remember on my i7 920 machine with 12GB of RAM, SSD, and GTX260 that I could get 30-40 FPS in Dalaran with max settings on all graphics except one. I don't remember what that setting was, but if it was at 75% everything ran smoothly, but as soon as I put it to max the game was unplayable. It may have been multisampling or shadows... I don't remember. If that particular setting was at 75% then everything else, including view distance, could be at maximum and things would run smoothly (5-boxing).