I do run two screens, yes, but only one graphics card (8800GT). My slave screens (the 4 other WoW instances) are set to 30fps when in the background, which they always are as I'm always in my main screen and just peripherally watching the slaves. My main is mostly at 60fps in the world, in cities it can drop down a bit, typically not below 30 though, and as I said, memory usage is not ridiculous.Originally Posted by 'vinny_germany',index.php?page=Thread&postID=21651 4#post216514
This strange and not what I get at all. Are you running 2 screens ?
I am running quite good now thanks to the advise given by you all. Still using the 9600GT and my 4MB of ram (until the new arrive).
I played around with the performance window and set 2 wow on the last 2 cores and 1 on the first 2
then I set the 2 slave windows on 20fsp using the wow comand.
The result is i'm getting 60fps on main now going down do about 40 sometimes, runs nice over all but still lagging in SW.
memory usage is always around the 3GB - 3.4GB (which is max since only 3338 is used from the 4GB)
CPU usage is about 40-60 now but all cores are running
so I think I will stick to my memory upgrade since i'm maxing it out still
It's all in how you set your graphics up, when I'm running just a single WoW for group playing with friends I have it set for Ultra at 1680x1050, 2x AA, and I get 60fps everywhere but that one WoW instance uses up almost 2GB of memory by itself, like 1.6 or something in Dalaran.
When boxing as a 5 group, all four clients are set to low everything, no AA, 960x600 or whatever the first widescreen res is. My main window I maximize to 1680x1050 windowed, and basically crank up everything that doesn't require a game restart. So view distance goes to full, shadows to full, object density and things like that. I don't bother turning on the new graphic setting (well, new as of 3.0) to do with texture mapping or whatever it is, the bottom right of the four checkboxes with Death Effect and Full Screen Glow. I don't turn that on when boxing.
Anyways, guess it's all down to how pretty you want things, if you are running larger windows for your slaves, or you want them to have a huge viewing distance or flashy graphics, you're going to use lots more memory than I. But definitely I have no troubles, and I never use my slave screens unless my main dies, or if I have to manually click something on them. None of these operations require awesome graphics for me though
So you CAN get by fine with 4GB and a mid-range processor/video card, and have a very playable and enjoyable experience, that's what I'm trying to say I guess. Everyone always suggests you need to spend thousands of dollars to multibox, even on a single machine, mis-information is teh lose.
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