Inconsistent FPS while 5 boxing

[Sbrowne55]

My machine is very similar, and it eats wows for dinner, I've ran 10 on it and it was just as smooth as 5. You've def got some core issues, as did I. Assign each wow to 2, I can't remember if cores started at 0 being your first core, but essentially it was 2 cores for each wow, and 1o cores total. The only time(s) I ever had lag, and low fps was due to my power supply going, and another from a virus. Fiddle around with the core affinities, and start ur wows at the lowest grapphics and scale up from there. It could be one graphic setting messing things up. Shadows was something I tuned down a lot.

[Hivetyrant]

I would first try just using all 8 cores for each slot. If that is crap then just try using 1, 3, 5, and 7 for all of the slots and let windows handle the virtualization. If that is still crap turn off the hyper threading in the BIOS and then double check your ISBoxer config and keep all slots assigned across all cores and see what happens. I guess... last but not least I would build a window layout that uses 1 monitor only just for test purposes and see if that has any impact what-so-ever [or you could try this first before messing with CPU affinity].


I can't speak positive for SLI while multiboxing, everyone so far has had improvements by disabling it. You have newer 4xx cards so anything is worth a shot if the above doesn't give any change. I doubt the memory clock would do much if you're already at 4GHz unless you've really really really loosened the timings.

Fenril head the nails on the head.

Use all cores for each instance, and turn off SLi.... At least to start with,m that should clear up the issues.

[daviddoran]

I kinda feel like an idiot, but I think the biggest impact on my performance I had was to turn the background frames to 15FPS. I probably could have done that with my q6600... Oh well. I didnt just upgrade for wow, I wanted to get back into first person shooters.

Ultimately, what I did, was to turn ON SLI, which I could only activate on one monitor due to a EDID bug on my main LCD (long story) so I had to hook up a third video card (thank god I got a mobo that was 3 way sli ready) and I hooked my other 2 monitors to the third card. Then I had to set my core affinity to 2 threads per instance. Just testing out 4 boxing, each wow on its own core gives me a consistent 60FPS. Can't 5 box just yet due to one of my accts expiring and I'm gonna wait til cata to renew.

I was monitoring my EVGA Precision for GPU usage, and even though I was rendering wow on a different screen, the primary GPU was still doing the work, so I surmised that SLI would hopefully help. I was also going to use the third card anyway for a physx card. I will probably someday try to re enable the 3d vision surround, cause I bet games like diablo 3 would kick ass with 3 monitors.