Grr... 5 WoW loading issue

[Rin]

Hey everyone,

Yesterday I decided to fire up one of my WoW teams again to fiddle around with multiboxing since I've been playing solo since 3.3. What I noticed is that when I had everything up and running, my computer seems like it can no longer handle 5 instances of WoW. I'm using Keyclone for my tool, and when I load them up through the application, everything loads seamlessly. After seeing the 5 copies of WoW across my two monitors, I then am able to enter in my logins /authenticator codes/ etc and be brought to the character select screen. Once on the character select screen, everything seems to be stable. I'm using about 3 GB of my 12 GB total available during that time. When I hit enter to log all of my characters into the game 4 of them load up perfectly, but the fifth one seems to slow me down. In fact, my computer begins to crawl and stops responding during the loading of the 5th character.

Initially I thought that it may be an issue with loading the toons up through the keyclone tool, so what I did was load up 5 different WoW's in independent windows, through the regular launcher. Same issue happened once the 5th instance was up and I got into the game. When I close down 1 instance, my computer speeds up, and when I close down 2, it feels great - my computer loves three instances of WoW now, but hates anything else.

I also tried turning off all of the add-on mods that I was running, just to be sure that it wasn't an add-on that was causing the hiccup. The other fix I tried was setting all of my WoW's except for the master down to "Good" for graphics quality (down from Ultra). Unfortunately, neither of these fixes helped.

A final fix that I attempted was to make a copy of the WoW folder and try running the game (as if that may make a difference?) It didn't seem to remedy the problem either.

The computer I'm running is decent too, I'm currently using an i7, 12 GBs RAM, 280 GTX OC Nvidia card, Solid State Drive for WoW (nothing else on that drive), and Windows 7 as my Operating System.

I'm not sure what to make of this, although I may try downloading some new drivers for my video card. I used to be able to run at least 9 copies of WoW without any issues on this same computer (nothing has changed as far as system specs go). As I haven't boxxed in the past 6 months, I'm not sure exactly what I need to be looking at. Is there a setting that I missed? Has anyone else experienced this issue?

Thanks!

[Velassra]

After TBC, they I guess redid some graphics and shadowing. I used to be able to 5 box on my old computer. W/ WotLK I was lucky to get 1 going smooth on my old system. I don't know when you stopped 5 boxing, but if it was TBC....that might be it.

[sorry]

The computer I'm running is decent too, I'm currently using an i7, 12 GBs RAM, 280 GTX OC Nvidia card, Solid State Drive for WoW (nothing else on that drive), and Windows 7 as my Operating System

Haven't been playing for 4 weeks now since I dont have the kind of line I can play on where I work (which blows), but I've got the exact same setup on my comp, just a HD 5870 insted of your 280 card. I can tell you that I had no problem what so ever 5-boxing with that setup 4 weeks ago, in fact everything was smooth as silk.
I can't help you any more I'm afraid, but I can't imagine your problem being in the hardware department (unless something has broken or you're not using the correct drivers).

Hope that helps...

/Sorry

[mihon]

They have upgraded the graphics , try to get out of your ram or something.
i think the ram memory is the most important , cuz it makes you run more program.

[Raskaz]

What happens when you load one char at a time?

And make sure you don't log them out in Dalaran since due to the amount of players loading usually takes a lot longer in comparison to a less frequented place.

[Rin]

Just wanted to do a follow up on this.

It turns out that WoW didn't like me having 15 different accounts in my WTF folder. I deleted that and also cleared WoW's cache in the WoW folder. This enabled me to play again seamlessly. Not sure if anyone else has had this issue, but at least it appears to be solved for now.

Edit: Oh and by the way, thanks for the suggestions :-) This was drivin me crazy!

[Ualaa]

Ya... looking at your computer specs, every component is far beyond what you need to 5-box smoothly.

Glad you got it working ok.