Quote Originally Posted by vikemosabe View Post
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.
This is very similar to my rig, I have an 8700m 512, 2ghz core2, (alienware m9750)

I found that, yes, by default it borders "unplayable" especially in content-heavy areas (so far ZF, STV, Dal).

My workaround was to open the NV Control Panel and edit the 3d graphics performance settings.

I disable AA, Aniso, force pre-render frames to 3, conformant texture to Clamp, and allows multi-core rendering.

The critical change, i found, was the texture performance. It defaults to "quality", I set this to "High performance".

I also found that, under W7, doing the game-specific settings didn't seem to properly apply to the game (probably the way I launch wow), so I had to set my graphics settings as the default settings and then make sure my wow profile inherited all settings from the global/default settings.

After doing this I can 5-box on my --laptop--, primary gets 30-60 fps depending on the zone. Where I would normally lag out like sh*t I get 25-45 variable, background clients always seem to do about 50% the FPS of the fore client.

Be sure to nerf the NV settings in addition to the wow settings and see how far it gets you, yoru system should be capable of handling 5 clients at 1024x768, 32bpp 1x multisample, all effects set to Lowest. It won't be the prettiest thing, but it should be running milky-smooth most of the time.