I have the following. Q6600, 3GB RAM, 512MB 8800GT, 22inch at 1680 x 1050 widescreen, Soundblaster XiFi. I max everything with 2x anti-aliasing on just one account. On the other 4, only texture is maxed and anti-aliasing is off, everything else is on medium. There are two problems:
First, loading takes about 2 minutes. I first bring all 5 windows to the character select screen then press enter, 2 minutes till all are loaded.
Second, I get constant, herky-jerky type lag when playing even in the least populated zones (ie, Elwynn Forest). I tried bumping the graphics settings on all other 4 accounts to check if the problem is my videocard, but the degree of lag remains identical as far as I can tell, so my graphics are fine. No matter what graphics setting I do as long as I play 5 accounts this sort of lag is always there.
I want a way to play 5 accounts smoothly on 1 PC, on ONE screen. I want to max details on 1 account; but want to keep the others at the same resolution and looking decent (high textures). Does 5boxing WoW smoothly require more than 3 GB of memory? Next, will running each account from separate hard drives alleviate this? If so, what is the best way to do it?Needless to say, with the above hardware setup I'd rather spend a bit more to fix this than deal with. Thanks.