Quote Originally Posted by 'Anozireth',index.php?page=Thread&postID=40483#pos t40483
Just wanted to add some more to this one. This thread got me curious about what would happen if I tried more than 3 instances on my laptop, so I got a couple more trial accounts and went for the full 5. At first, the FPS was so low that it was unplayable. Then I discovered the wonderful maxfps and maxfpsbk commands. Setting these to a modest 30 and 12 resulted in a very playable experience. The clones are just fast enough to work and it frees up the processor for the main window which runs at a smooth 30 fps (which is better than I was getting with only 3 instances without these commands). I might up the values a little even since my processor usage is not even at 100% with this setup.

On a side note, I seem to have a problem when switching the windows using keyclone's PiP function. After heavily using the PiP while getting macros set up for the new 5-man team, eventually all the windows became capped at 12 FPS (which of course isn't really playable for the main). It seems like WoW is failing to recognize when it gets focus back. The only fix I could find was to restart all the clients. I'm still not sure if this is due to the PiP or the focus following the mouse between windows. I plan to do more investigation when I get a chance.
cool, good info here, thanks everyone who posted!

Could i get some info on what specs your machine is running?

This is the kind of machine I was thinking of getting: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834115453

EDITS: btw a lot of machines come with vista now adays.... Would it be a good idea to revert it back to XP? Or just deal with vista quirks? I have not tried vista before not sure what to expect but i have heard a lot of bad/annoying things about it.