screen and color resolution

[schlange]

I need to set my color resolution and screen bit depth each time I log in. Is there a way in WOW to fix it so it is in 16bit?

For some reason it always defaults each time to the highest and that slows down the game a bit with 5 instances running on a single machine

[keyclone]

bit depth is slowing you down? hmm. most video cards today are optimized for 32 bit color (4 bytes).

if you are trying to shave some cpu/gpu cycles... look into maxfpsbk and maxfps.

those 2 will yield you the most benefit

try maxfpsbk 15 or less and maxfps 30 or higher.
i normally recommend 15 and 40. if you still need to save more, tweak the maxfpsbk lower since you aren't looking at hit most of the time anyhow.

[schlange]

The CPU with 4 wow instances open is running at about 50%. Once I get more RAM installed, I will add the 5th Wow window and I figure the CPU will move up to 55% or so.

What is bothering me is the default of running 4x Anti-Alasie (spelling) and 24-bit color and 24-bit depth on the small or minimized windows. I think if I can turn off the 4x Anti-Alaise and turn it down to 16bit color then maybe I can increase the maxfpsbk and make it less jumpy

Just want to optimise it all by removing the unnecessary "features" in the smaller clone character windows.