Quote Originally Posted by vikemosabe View Post
Ok, thanks a bunch for all these responses.
I have a question about the symilinking.
I simply have a copy of wow that I run specifically for multi boxing.
Would symlinking give me a performance improvement in that regard?
Or would that only be if I cared about separate settings for each client?

Finally, about the sound you suggest I turn it off at the device level?
What exactly do you mean by this and how does one go about doing so in windows 7?
What I take it to mean is go into device manager and disable the sound devices.
Is that what you mean by it?

Also, as a follow-up to the maxfpsbk post:
You have to set the maxfps as well as bk for it to work, I found out.
And the command to do it is:
/console set maxfpsbk 3
You had it right except for the set in there.
SymLinking gains are negligible, you would get more benefit out of a "good" raid+1 controller and high-rpm drives, or just go with a dedicated solid-state drive. The primary benefit in symlinking is isolation of game files (cache, logs, etc) so that you don't have wow contending for the same files on disk, or in the case of some sloppy add-ons, overwriting global savedvars between clients. On a personal note, I like the "remember login" feature so I only need to punch in a password when I launch 5 clients at once. Without symlinking or manually creating copies, I would have to visit each client to select my account before continuing with login.

It would be nice to see someone do a controlled test and post their tests and results. No such thing exists that I can find.

Under Vista and W7, disable sound within WoW should provide a small boost. Muting the device should have the equivalent effect as removing the device in terms of processing, the filter shouldn't process any audio when muted. Also, if you have a "Stereo Mix" device, disable it. Under Vista the device is disabled by default, in W7 it's not present. however, if you installed RealTek drives, it shoudl be present (though, again, disabled by default).

As with SymLinking, it would be nice to see someone do a controlled test and post their test steps and results.