Trying to run multiple WoW accounts

[siwoolley]

Also a small side note, windows xp home won't recognise all that ram you've got. Make sure you download windows 7 64bit if you end up pursuing that route.

[EaTCarbS]

AA = anti-aliasing

[Jaly]

Are you loading wow 2x from the same folder or do you have 2 separate folders for each account?

Try copy/paste the whole wow folder and load the 2nd account from the 2nd folder.

Also shadows, they hurtses us.

[Rocky514]

I was running both from the same folder yes. I didn't know that could cause that. Mainly cause i was able to run 5 EQ accounts from one game folder, but I will try this as well. Thanks again

[JackBurton]

Try disabling your SLI from your display settings. No snap, im not kidding.

[Otlecs]

How did you get on with this?

I haven't seen anyone mention memory yet.

With your video card (1792Mb) and a 32 bit os, you're going to have very little usable system memory available.

Probably around 1.5GB of the 6GB you have installed!

I would therefore put good money on your performance being entirely constrained by memory rather than by your graphics settings.

I had first-hand experience of this when Dell helpfully sold me an XPS730 with 2x1GB video cards, 4GB installed memory and a 32 bit os... it was a complete waste of time until I installed Vista 64.

[Wokomehee]

I had first-hand experience of this when Dell helpfully sold me an XPS730 with 2x1GB video cards, 4GB installed memory and a 32 bit os... it was a complete waste of time until I installed Vista 64.

Same here.. how to upgrade to 64 bit? Buy, install and play? ...or do i need to change drivers, progs etc?

...ty in advance for answer on noob questions :P

And tbh its stupid to sell a computer with 4GB +graphic cards when it "dosent work"

[Otlecs]

Same here.. how to upgrade to 64 bit? Buy, install and play? ...or do i need to change drivers, progs etc?

It's a complete re-install I'm afraid, Woko

You need to buy the 64bit OS and do a fresh install (being sure to backup anything you need beforehand).

In my case I was using all stock hardware, and the setup process found all the drivers it needed as part of the installation. In fact, it was incredibly easy and took an hour from start to finish.

If you use any "odd" hardware, you'll need to make sure the manufacturer has 64 bit drivers available, but for regular applications the 32 bit version still works on a 64 bit OS.

It was a walk in the park for me and I never looked back, but as always with such things your experience may differ

A word of warning though... if you have a Dell 730 and dual ATI cards, you're going to have to jump through alot of hoops to get Crossfire working again.

I never managed to do it, and having been bounced from Dell to ATI (who don't support Crossfire on the Intel motherboard Dell were using when I bought mine ~15 months ago!) I just gave up and went for single, higher spec, Nvidia card instead.

The horrendously expensive (at the time) ATI cards are now gathering dust in my "spares cupboad".

[Drew]

He could also put in a second hard drive and make that his Windows 7 drive. I have my system set up that way to dual-boot XP and Win7.

[Wokomehee]

Thank you guys, for fast answers! =)

My pc is 7 months old, so hopefully i can get drivers etc for everything. I will check tho, before i start =) The price for the os itself was not scary, and im using only 1 graphic card atm (NVIDIA) so it should not be a problem.

What os would u guys pick tho? I use XPpro atm...