Input from those running multiple accounts on one machine.

[Teslah]

Hey everyone,

Up to level 18 so far with 5 accounts. I am running 4 of them most of the time with a buddy running a priest.

Is anyone able to run 5 accounts with 25fps or more?

Here is what I am getting.

0-3 accounts about 25fps.
4 accounts drops to 11 to 17 fps.
5 drops to 8-12 fps.

5 works, but is a pain. People are dropping follow from lag and so on.

Does anyone have a rig that can run all 5 accounts at 30fps on decent settings?

I curently have an i7 950, 2 X 2gig vid cards and 12 gig ram. Not sure an upgrade is going to make a dramatic difference.

Thanks for the input.

[ZooljinX]

I run all my 5 accounts at around 35 FPS( ofc it gets lower down to 10-20 when im in a major rift or city) I run with I7 930 2x 5870 and 12g RAm nothing overcloked yet, waiting for my watercooling to get the CPU higher, then i hope i can get some more frames.. what graphics cards are you using?

[Meeo]

Hey everyone,

Up to level 18 so far with 5 accounts. I am running 4 most of them time with a buddy running a priest.

Is anyone able to run 5 accounts with 25fps or more?

Here is what I am getting.

0-3 accounts about 25fps.
4 accounts drops to 11 to 17 fps.
5 drops to 8-12 fps.

5 works, but is a pain. People are dropping follow from lag and so on.

Does anyone have a rig that can run all 5 accounts at 30fps on decent settings?

I curently have an i7 950, 2 X 2gig vid cards and 12 gig ram. Not sure an upgrade is going to make a dramatic difference.

Thanks for the input.

I would assume you mean on 1 machine, as i run 5 accounts on 5 separate machines, and there FPS is 25 to 40 on low rendering, minus my main machine which has 45+ FPS.

[Krago]

Hey everyone,

Up to level 18 so far with 5 accounts. I am running 4 most of them time with a buddy running a priest.

Is anyone able to run 5 accounts with 25fps or more?

Here is what I am getting.

0-3 accounts about 25fps.
4 accounts drops to 11 to 17 fps.
5 drops to 8-12 fps.

5 works, but is a pain. People are dropping follow from lag and so on.

Does anyone have a rig that can run all 5 accounts at 30fps on decent settings?

I curently have an i7 950, 2 X 2gig vid cards and 12 gig ram. Not sure an upgrade is going to make a dramatic difference.

Thanks for the input.

I am running three accounts as follows:

I am using ISBoxer and I have the clients set up to cap at 30FPS when in the foreground and 15FPS when minimized.
I get pretty much 30FPS unless there is alot of activity on the screen.

I also have my main toon set up on Ultra settings all are running at 1920x1200

I have also noticed that over the last couple of days the game is much smoother with less stuttering.

My rig:

Core2Quad 9550
ATI 4970
8GB Ram
Windows 7 64

[Teslah]

I would assume you mean on 1 machine, as i run 5 accounts on 5 separate machines, and there FPS is 25 to 40 on low rendering, minus my main machine which has 45+ FPS.

Yep, one machine. I can do it, it looks ok, but at times it gets a little slow.

I run all my 5 accounts at around 35 FPS( ofc it gets lower down to 10-20 when im in a major rift or city) I run with I7 930 2x 5870 and 12g RAm nothing overcloked yet, waiting for my watercooling to get the CPU higher, then i hope i can get some more frames.. what graphics cards are you using?

I have two GTX 295 2gig cards in the machine, so 4gigs video ram. Wondering if upgrading them would make a massive difference or just a slight difference.

I run all my 5 accounts at around 35 FPS( ofc it gets lower down to 10-20 when im in a major rift or city) I run with I7 930 2x 5870 and 12g RAm nothing overcloked yet, waiting for my watercooling to get the CPU higher, then i hope i can get some more frames.. what graphics cards are you using?

I have a liquid cooled system and am not seeing your numbers.

Did you change any other settings or do anything else to the game or your computer to get the higher numbers? I can get 10-12fps during rifts with 5 copies running on one system, but I have never seen 35fps for each of the 5 clients all running at once out in the wilderness.

[Meeo]

I have two GTX 295 2gig cards in the machine, so 4gigs video ram. Wondering if upgrading them would make a massive difference or just a slight difference.

As far as i know the SLI Nvidia Optimization was not in yet, unless it was patched in the yesterday/for release day. They stated in their head-start podcast interview that they only had the ATI Crossfire optimization in. Last i heard is they were still working with Nvidia to get that done. Ill see if i can find any patch notes pertaining to SLI/dual Nvidia updates.

[Lokked]

Having the Low Quality Renderer enabled is key to getting decent FPS with 5 accounts on a single machine.
You really should overclock your CPU. There are plenty of guides and as long as you aren't messing with Voltages, you run no risk of damaging your hardware. The worst that could happen is your comp locks up.
Also, keep background instances running at a minimum rate ~10FPS.

[ZooljinX]

I have two GTX 295 2gig cards in the machine, so 4gigs video ram. Wondering if upgrading them would make a massive difference or just a slight difference.

Depends on how many monitors you use, if you only use 2 monitors you wont need more then 2 bg vid ram.. 4 gb should be fine if you want to run more (cant say 100% sure tho, ive never run more then 2 monitors) maby you should try and clock the cards abitt, if your cooling can handel it

[Bloodcloud]

are you running the clients from the same game directory ?

Edit:
aaarg. Just figured it uses %APPDATA%\Rift on Vista and XP for the config files *dislike*

[Teslah]

Having the Low Quality Renderer enabled is key to getting decent FPS with 5 accounts on a single machine.
You really should overclock your CPU. There are plenty of guides and as long as you aren't messing with Voltages, you run no risk of damaging your hardware. The worst that could happen is your comp locks up.
Also, keep background instances running at a minimum rate ~10FPS.

Thanks for the tips.

Are you setting the background instances to 10 frames in IS Boxer? If so, where is that setting?

are you running the clients from the same game directory ?

Where are the settings stored ? Registry or file ?

One install, one directory. It does ok with all 5 running, just once in a while you get a little stalling or a character drops off follow. Usually during large rifts or in town.

As far as i know the SLI Nvidia Optimization was not in yet, unless it was patched in the yesterday/for release day. They stated in their head-start podcast interview that they only had the ATI Crossfire optimization in. Last i heard is they were still working with Nvidia to get that done. Ill see if i can find any patch notes pertaining to SLI/dual Nvidia updates.

I didn't know that. Thanks for letting me know. This will certainly help some once it is implemented.

Having the Low Quality Renderer enabled is key to getting decent FPS with 5 accounts on a single machine.
You really should overclock your CPU. There are plenty of guides and as long as you aren't messing with Voltages, you run no risk of damaging your hardware. The worst that could happen is your comp locks up.
Also, keep background instances running at a minimum rate ~10FPS.

For low rendering you are talking about settings in Rift correct? If so, yeah I have them all turned down except the main.