Maximizing performance

[vikemosabe]

I have a laptop that I use for multiboxing and playing in general.
It is a this Gateway.
Except mine has 1920x1200 resolution and Windows 7.
It basically has WIn 7, 4 GB RAM, 1GB 9800m GTS, 320 GB HDD 7200 RPM, and 2.3 ghz Intel Core 2 Duo.

I can hardly run 5 instances of WoW.

I can do moderately well with 4, but want to do 5.
I run 2 mb of addons on each slave and about 5 mb on master.
I have set all graphics to lowest possible and set resolution of each to 800x600.

I get about 10-12 fps on slaves and 20-30 on master.
I wouldn't expect it to be laggy at 20-30 but it's unplayable.

I'm always losing my followers cuz it lags out and they drop too far behind.

My ping is another factor.
It usually sits at 400~.
I don't think it's the issue because everything runs fine when I have 4 going and both my sisters each play one at a time.
But when I am doing 5 by myself it's just bad, so I don't think the ping is the issue.

Is there tips or tricks anyone can point me to that might help me eek out just enough more performance to pull off running 5?
Or am I simply crap out of luck?

[spannah]

With only 2 cores on your CPU you are likely crap out of luck.

[Smoooth]

I agree, that processor is probably your choke point. Maybe you have or can get a cheap desktop/laptop to run 2 or 3 of your accounts on.

[neopickaze]

Yeah it's gotta be your CPU, I have a Radeon 3870 and Q6600 at 2.8ghz and I can run 5 on the same settings as you with main at 60 fps and slaves at 15fps back no problem.

[vikemosabe]

Well, that's what I was afraid of hearing.
That's also what I expected to hear and figured was the problem.
Thanks for the responses

[Owltoid]

I agree that you're probably out of luck, but one thing you can do is limit your slaves background FPS. Maybe try as low as 3. Possibly set the affinity of three slaves to one proccessor, leaving one for your main and one slave.

You'll never be able to go near Dalaran, but you may be able to do 5-man instances in Northrend.

[vikemosabe]

Thanks, I'll give it a shot
what's out to limit fps like that?

[Owltoid]

Use the command "/console maxfpsbk 3" or something like that (google it in case I got the syntax wrong).

[MilaShizu]

Hi well i havbe the same lap that you do BUT i only want to run 2 account, Heres my problem: i dl mubox (was searching for octopus but alla the links were screwd) and try it but my keybord stuck and i wasnt able to configure it. Im a googleholic so i search the web for a nice tutorial i find a nice one and it work BUT my three wow opened in the exact same place and i coulnt move them so i was wondering if someone pls explain me how to set up the screen and the keys cuz i suck with that.....I tried serching in here but 4 of 5 times i tried to find anything here i couldnt see any posts.... so finally after 1 day and a few hours i can post in here for help

PD :my main consern is to configure mubox to start dualboxing and if mubox sux plz recomend a free one for now (im planning on getting the $20 buck one but im short in money now)

Thanks in advice

[Mubox]

Hi well i havbe the same lap that you do BUT i only want to run 2 account, Heres my problem: i dl mubox (was searching for octopus but alla the links were screwd) and try it but my keybord stuck and i wasnt able to configure it. Im a googleholic so i search the web for a nice tutorial i find a nice one and it work BUT my three wow opened in the exact same place and i coulnt move them so i was wondering if someone pls explain me how to set up the screen and the keys cuz i suck with that.....I tried serching in here but 4 of 5 times i tried to find anything here i couldnt see any posts.... so finally after 1 day and a few hours i can post in here for help

PD :my main consern is to configure mubox to start dualboxing and if mubox sux plz recomend a free one for now (im planning on getting the $20 buck one but im short in money now)

Thanks in advice

Mubox was designed to function as most people would "expect" out-of-the-box. Unfortunately there are a few "gotchas" that tend to trip people up.

By default, Input Capture and Multicast is enabled. Also by default, certain keys (such as WSAD, ESC and WinKey) are blocked from being Multicasted to slave clients.

Many people assume their keyboard is broken at first, because they can't type anything. What is happening is Mubox is capturing all your input. You have three options, in order of simplicity:

1) Click on the SysTray Icon and De-Check "Enable Input Capture", this should free up your keyboard (and mouse, though Mouse is not such an issue anymore these days since Mubox correctly re-posts to non-client areas. It didn't used to.)

2) Press NUM LOCK, this Brings up the Server UI (or Client Switcher, as some people call it) and also disables input capture.

3) Press SCROLL LOCK. This disables input capture, but does not Display the Server UI.

Also, related to input capture, when you active a wow window input capture is automatically re-enabled. This is a feature, not a bug, for those of us that disable input capture via num lock, alt-tab to our favorite website, then alt-tab back to wow to continue playing.

As for the "windows are stuck and unable to move them", there was a known issue with 1.3.0.52 that, if you selected "remember window position" the windows would be non-movable on the first-tun (subsequent runs wouldn't have any problems), as of 1.3.0.56 I am unable to repro this issue on my machine. If this happens to anyone, a work-around is to minimize your wow window, or resize one of the edges, this forces the "remember window position" feature to "break out" of the default position for the window. When this happens, if I recall correctly, the client window appears in the top-left of the screen instead of the center (default position) of the screen.

Lastly, the "Mouse Clone" feature currently only works for overlapped windows. A future version will change this behavior, but since nobody has complained (and since the original requestors asked for it to function this way) no effort has been made to perform "mouse-casting" to multiple clients at different screen locations.

If you still have problems with Mubox, PM me or e-mail me directl, I'm the Author and would be happy to work with you ti fix whatever issue you're having. If it's happening to you, it's likely to happen to others, and most people don't mention their problems to get them fixed (unfortunately.)

Thanks.