Input from those running multiple accounts on one machine.

[Bloodcloud]

How does ISBOXER handle the resizing of the Clients for PiP.

any window frames appearing again ?

(in my current setup on HKN I can't resize the client windows on the fly without having the window frame appear again

maybe finally a reason to switch over to isboxer.

[Bollwerk]

@ OP
Keep in mind also that each GTX 295 is a dual GPU card, so you actually only have 1GB of video RAM per GPU.
Having said that, video RAM isn't that big of a deal unless you are using really high graphics settings at really high resolutions (i.e. Ultra at 2560x1600 per toon)

While I don't play Rift, I do play WoW with 5 toons and get silky smooth framerates on a 30" monitor. Each toon is running at 2560x1600, but with "low" graphics and "good" draw distance.
I get 60 FPS on main toon, 30FPS on slaves and I never get any stuttering or broken follows flying over Stormwind.

i5-2500K (stock speed)
8GB RAM
GTX 570
OCZ Vertex2 for OS
Crucial C300 for WoW

[Teslah]

@ OP
Keep in mind also that each GTX 295 is a dual GPU card, so you actually only have 1GB of video RAM per GPU.
Having said that, video RAM isn't that big of a deal unless you are using really high graphics settings at really high resolutions (i.e. Ultra at 2560x1600 per toon)

My secondary monitors are Dell 30" 2560 X 1600 monitors. Only using one at the moment for the 4 slave clients.


Anyway, where do you set the background clients to 15fps in IS Boxer? At work at the moment and will adjust that later in the week when I get a chance to play. That might do that trick since they are all trying to run as high as they can right now.

[JamieW]

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

I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I have a similar setup on Vista Ultimate 64 with an ATI 6850 I just put in there yesterday (up from an Nvidia 9800GT). My frame rates definitely got better, but I am not running the main toon in Ultra by any stretch of the imagination, and I still only see about 20-30 FPS on the main in unpopulated areas. In heavy population, it drops down to 10-15 fps.

[wyofiddler]

Anyway, where do you set the background clients to 15fps in IS Boxer?

There's a setting in ISBoxer, click your char set, click under slots on the number one for the first char, and you'll see check boxes for "limit framerate in foreground/background to: "

Mine are set at wow defaults right now, after reading this thread I'll adjust them down tonight and see if it helps my fps any.

[Wadis]

IMO one of the best things you can do to improve performance is run your copies from a SSD, that will net you the best performance increase looking at your current system specs.

Also I think the Trion dev team still has a lot of tweaks to do to get the game running better as a whole.

[Krago]

I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I have a similar setup on Vista Ultimate 64 with an ATI 6850 I just put in there yesterday (up from an Nvidia 9800GT). My frame rates definitely got better, but I am not running the main toon in Ultra by any stretch of the imagination, and I still only see about 20-30 FPS on the main in unpopulated areas. In heavy population, it drops down to 10-15 fps.

Are you running the same resolutions as I am and what are your system specs?

Also, my non-main toons are running on the low render settings.

I suspect that when I hit some buys spots it'll drop considerably.

I need to tool around with my setup and try to get it running more consistently, may cap the background clients to 10FPS and maybe the main window to 25FPS.

Also, need to OC my CPU and GPU and see what difference, if any, that makes.

[Sbrowne55]

Just run every on low lol. If its like any new mmo there is always something in your graphcis setting that sucks the life out of your pc. Give it time, it will get smoother.

Draw/view distance usually is a huge one.
Also having all your slaves on one dedicated pc is key, with main on it's own.

[JamieW]

Are you running the same resolutions as I am and what are your system specs?

Also, my non-main toons are running on the low render settings.

I suspect that when I hit some buys spots it'll drop considerably.

I need to tool around with my setup and try to get it running more consistently, may cap the background clients to 10FPS and maybe the main window to 25FPS.

Also, need to OC my CPU and GPU and see what difference, if any, that makes.

Q9550 Quad Core
8GB Ram
Vista Ultimate 64
ATI 6850 1GB Vid Card

Not running on an SSD right now, since I haven't reclaimed it from a different computer, but I expect that will only help a bit.

I did take all 3 off of the low-render setting when I got the new video card, so maybe I'll set the 2nd 2 back to that so that I can get better graphics on the main.

Oh, and I'm running them at 1680x788. Maybe a non-standard resolution is causing it problems, too?

[Berserker]

I run 5 using a 950 OC'd to 4GHz and 24GB of ram. I'm also using 2 MSI GTX 560 Ti's OC'd to 950/1900/2100. I use 2 1920x1200 monitors and run the game in FS at 1920x1200.

I play on the low setting and get 40-45ish fps on the main screen.

IMO, the biggest performance bottleneck in Rift is CPU, then RAM size, then GPU.