Blue post on multi-boxing problems

[Slats]

I was getting 10fps and then I worked out all my config.wtf files had let WoW atuodetect new settings. So each client put everything on Ultra with 16xAA and max multi-sampling.

Needles to say putting my slaves on Medium Settings and making everything use Trilinear except hte main gave me MUCH better FPS.

Still need to drop some stuffon the main though, not being able to turn shadows off at all is annoying.

[Hivetyrant]

Water seems to make the largest hit on performance now, even shadows doesn't seem to be too bad.

[Zub]

yeah even i run with (low/fair) shadows on my 5 yo crappy machine.
Shadows have been greatly improved in terms on perf i think

[boxblizzard]

all fine here running five sprad out 2 game client folders, not sure what problems your having. through maybe its my 940XM laughing

[ZooljinX]

I was getting 10fps and then I worked out all my config.wtf files had let WoW atuodetect new settings. So each client put everything on Ultra with 16xAA and max multi-sampling.

Needles to say putting my slaves on Medium Settings and making everything use Trilinear except hte main gave me MUCH better FPS.

Still need to drop some stuffon the main though, not being able to turn shadows off at all is annoying.

haha yea i hade the same problem, took me some time to figure out.. i never noticed how good everything looked on my slaves

[jinkobi]

I use ISBoxer and it's working flawless after I updated it,

What's weird is I actually got a big performance boost from this patch.

Only thing I've noticed which really isn't an error. There's a blue loading bar at the top of my screen for a second on my slaves. Never saw that before.

But yeah that's great they aren't bringing down the axe on multiboxing. Things were a bit up in the air with some of the comments made by blues in recent past.

[Mukade]

One thing I've noticed (and might have something to do with the serious issue Im having) is that lock files now get added to the Data folder while the launcher or main executable is running.

That would explain not normally being able to run more than one WoW from the same folder, or in my case any WoW symlinked to that folder as only one WoW could get full access to the files at once.

I'm getting "File cannot be Read' type errors from the symlinked WoWs on art.MPQ, but the non-symlinked folder is working fine, so it can't be down to a corrupt install.

Also one of the blues on forums mentioned having to run the launcher to update the registry, from the same folder that the WoW you're running is installed to. It's never had to do that before, and i guess it could just be overwriting those settings if you run it from several installs.

[Sam DeathWalker]

They have a opnion for MaxFPS forground and MaxFPS background right in the video settings now. What more evidence could there be they plan to have multiboxers around for a long time?

Its been a big change from when I was probably the most prolific poster of any multiboxer, of course there was not a lot of multiboxers back then in 2003 just me and a few other guys:

http://www.fohguild.org/forums/retar...rver-wide.html

I guess none was as polite as we are now days lol ...

[blindbudsmoker]

Here is the post: With a few other bug problems

• Starting more than 1 wow.exe simultaneously will cause the applications to deadlock
  - If you are multi-boxing, do not use a batch file or other method to launch multiple game clients at once

so is thier any sort of fix for this? when i load up 5 its hit or miss but 1-3 accounts will lock up. have to shut them down and reload and usally 1-2 make it and what ever is frozen again shut down and repeat till all 5 work. using ISboxer with all the graphics correct.

thanks

have a couple addons on account one but the slaves are only isboxer and jamba

[HomoDoctus]

I seem to be having issues as well still. I only run 3 clients and my 2nd and 3rd client crash after 1-3 minutes of playing but never my #1. I am using about 5 addons now, as opposed to the dozen i used to use and find if i disable everything on the slaves except for jamba and isboxer i am stable. So, i'm tempted to believe that an addon is causing problems. Was also curious if system resources were a concern but i am using no more than I used to (hitting no more than 60% on cpu/ram usage). Did anyone else find that disabling addons helped? i'm using omen, recount, bagnon, postal, isboxer, vuhdo, and jamba at the moment. all my vid settings have been turned down a bit, drivers updated etc.

cheers for any info